I wonder how they are doing theses roads.....

[Airshow_lover]

Well, i was thinking, How are they going to be doing this road traffic?

Are there going to be cars getting off the roads or are they just going ot go around and around and around?

I would hate to see that.

I am excited by this road traffic but i cant help but see a few problems.

I wonder if you get on the road whether or not they(the cars) will yield to you.

I also wonder whether or not the cars will drive on the wrong side of the road in england

[BAW0343]

Are there going to be cars getting off the roads

Doubt it

I wonder if you get on the road whether or not they(the cars) will yield to you.

HIGHLY doubt it

Thats to much to ask, this is a FLIGHT sim. If you want "realistic" car behavior buy a game just for that.  ;)

[Katahu]

I have to agree with BAW. This is the first time that M$ is implementing such a new and complex system. I someone like me who creates car addons wouldn't demand that much given the fact that simulating car traffic around the world [let alone program the cars to yeild] is a daunting task for a "flying" simulator.

Me, I only hope that M$'s roads are just smooth enough to ride on.

[Overspeed]

This is what i think

i think that there are small segments of road that MS has created with traffic and they just copy the same segment over all of the roads. Ive seen other games like this, and when a car hits the end of that copied segment, itll move back to the starting point...

who knows... i may be wrong

[flymo]

I also wonder whether or not the cars will drive on the wrong side of the road in england

we do drive on the right side of the road, its you barmy lot that are on the wrong side.

im not to botherd about road traffic, sure it will look nice. but its just something to eat up even mroe frames.

[Airshow_lover]

we do drive on the right side of the road, its you barmy lot that are on the wrong side.

[Woodlouse2002]

Didn't they say that the animals would break and run when you buzzed them? Surely the code could be used for cars and still not look too stupid.

[BAW0343]

Well thats buzzing animals, thats flying, and i peronally havnt heard that. I dont think what your asking for will happen, dont get your hopes up  ;)

[Jakemaster]

The car traffic will probably be a looping animation on certain roads, just like it is now with certain addons

[Katahu]

The car traffic will probably be a looping animation on certain roads, just like it is now with certain addons

A more-than-likely scenario.

[BAW0343]

The car traffic will probably be a looping animation on certain roads, just like it is now with certain addons

And will probly only show up near airports and maby in citys, they wouldnt spend the time to make highway traffic, but let the developers work their magic and maby we can have some awsome traffic in the sim  ;D

[PisTon]

It would be amazing if the cars did go everywhere!!!  :-*

I doubt it will happen though, I mean, it's a Flightsim not a carsim. Also imagine the computer you'd need to do the calculations of the cars  :o

[beaky]

Exciting possibilities:
"Traffic Report Adventure"....

[kipman725]

I don't see why the cars can't be AI.  All thats needed is waypoints following the shapes of the roads and destinations and start points.  Startpoints and destinations can be easily harvested from usage statistics from software like autoroute (or one of the online services if auto route dosn't send the data about where people travel too or from to m$).  The cars can easily be made to interupt there navigation if they detect your plane infront of them or if there is another car in front of them they can easily be made to slow down for junctions and as trffic flow data is avaialble traffic can be modled in realistic volume on all roads shown in the sim and roads no volume data is available for can be estimated by the avrage volume of trafic on a road that size.

[Daube]

Exciting possibilities:
"Traffic Report Adventure"....

Sure sounds weird...said like this
Have you ever tried this old helicopter sim named "Search and Rescue" (the vey first one).
It was consisting only in missions, and I would actually really LOVE to see such missions in FSX, because they were for the major part very realistic and very challenging on a piloting point of view:
- going to an accident on the higway, land in front of the police and firemens then bring the injured persons back to the hospital
- chasing a "bad guy" on the highway for cinematographic purposes (you were supposed to carry a cameraman and the challenge was to keep close enough to the car for long enough)
- and some other stuff I forgot....
This was fun, challenging and realistic. Sure that was not flying from VOR to VOR, i understand one can be deluded about that  ::)  ;)  ;D