Hello everyone,
I’m looking for a vehicle system on the Asset Store that fulfills special requirements:
It’s essentially important to me, that the system is able to:
- work without a player vehicle
- automatically calculate the allowed speeds for curves
- avoid obstacles along the path (including braking if necessary)
- drive as many AI vehicles as possible (at least 10, but 50 or 100 would be nice)
Furthermore, the following aspects would be cool, but they’re not as essentially important as those above:
- Avoiding dynamic obstacles other than diffent vehicles, but also interact with them when colliding
- Simulating different road surfaces, while the AI automatically adapts its behaviour
- Other vehicles (like bikes or trucks)
- Inclusive track editor
- Automatic pathfinding (some checkpoints are given
- Ability to jump across ramps and pits (vehicles should not be controllible in the air
The following aspects are NOT important to me: (if included, they should be removable)
- Damage system
- Random behaviour variations
- Garage, shop, upgrade system
I’ve tried out the following tools and free assets:
- Unity’s NavMesh system (a great navigation system with a great obstacle avoidance system. But the problem is that these agents collide with edges as if they were walls. And when a large number of agents avoid an obstacle, they just slide through it instead of colliding with it)
- Unity’s Karting Microgame
- Waypoint based Car of Standard Assets 2018
- Racing Starter Kit (@SpinMotion)
- Car AI (@Ahmed Saed)
I’ve taken a look at the following assets:
- Ash Vehicle Physics & Ash Vehicle AI
- Intelligent Race Driver System (@Jose Garrido)
- Minicar Race Creator (@Target Studio)
- Arcade Car Controller (@Perfect Games)
- Universal Vehicle Physics (@Perfect Games)
- Racing Game Starter Kit (@Intense Games)
- A Casual Racing Template (@STE Games)
And I’ve already played these games:
- BeamNG.drive
- TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator)
which also allow me to start AI races whichout a player car.
Yes, I know, these aspects are really special and not the regular requirements for a racing game. The main reason why I’m asking here is because I’ve been always fascinated by the opponents in different racing games. I never had informatics at school, so I could never get behind the scene. Also I’m strongly visually impared, which means that I can’t take a look at the AI vehicles while driving by myself. Also I don’t earn much money yet. That means I need to think about every single purchase multiple times. That’s why I can’t buy a 40€ or 70€ asset whithout knowing exactly what it brings concerning these aspects.
So, I know that there won’t be a perfect one, but is there any asset (or PC game) you can recommend based on these requirements? I’d also like to get some context-based reviews about the assets I’ve taken a look at.
If you have any questions, jusk ask.
Thanks ahead,
Frieder