Game AI Pro 3

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Fast Cars, Big City

The AI of Driver San Francisco

Chris Jenner and Sergio Ocio Barriales

17.1    Introduction

17.2    Active Life AI

17.3    Road Network

17.4    Route Finding

17.5    Mid-Level Path Planning

17.6    Low-Level Path Optimizer

17.7    Low-Level Path Optimizer

References

17.1  Introduction

Driver San Francisco was an open-world driving game set in a fictionalized version of the city of San Francisco. The game’s version of the city was very large, and in some areas had very dense traffic.

The player was given different missions that involved navigating through traffic at high speeds interacting with other mission-critical NPC vehicles, which also had to move quickly through the traffic. NPC vehicles might be chasing another ...