Apocalypse Taxi

Apocalypse Taxi is my entry into the 2018 ProcJam.

Drive around a procedurally generated city, and try not to kill anyone. Pick up passengers and take them to their randomly generated destinations. It's more a tech toy than a game!

Techniques used:

• A Voronoi diagram (with Manhattan distance) is used to determine the road map.
• A simplex noise map determines altitude.
• Once the voronoi is generated, tiles containing roads are enumerated and tagged based on adjacency; appropriate road tiles are placed.
• Each tile within a "voronoi cell" is allocated to the appropriate region.
• Regions are given a type of water, park, rocks, residential, industrial or business.
• Water areas have their heights set low, so the bottom water plane shines through.
• Park and Rock areas have a procedural mesh generated from the height field (sloping to 0 at the roads), which is then added to the world. One of several textures is picked. A series of "props" (ruins, statues, etc.) are then randomly placed in the area.
• Residential, industrial and business districts are flat (altitude set to 0, and the mesh uses RLE to only render stripes - BIG performance improvement). Random buildings from a set of available options for that region are then placed on the world.
• I then randomly generate people. Names are built from census tables, skin color is determined from a set of available ethnic colorations (as is hair color). Different meshes are then applied to build a distinctive person. Various clothing options are generated, with random tints.
• Unreal's Vehicle system is then used to drive around.
• Physics determine collisions.

Source code is available here: https://dev.azure.com/herberticus/ApocalypseTaxi

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Copyright 2018 Herbert Wolverson (DBA Bracket Productions)

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