September 10th, 2021 Video

Jace Talk: Distant Vehicle smoothing

https://youtube.com/clip/UgxWeK-t2NCv-imZmYx4AaABCQ

Topics

• Features > Transportation > Vehicles > Autopilot
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 5

Transcript

there now there's a couple of bonus little changes that are coming as well these don't help with the reliability of the vehicles but they're just sort of nice to have, so some of you might have noticed that when vehicles drive when automated vehicles drive a certain distance away they start like jittering like teleporting from waypoint to waypoint they don't really smoothly drive between where they're supposed to go and that's because after a certain distance we turn off their physics and we simulate them without physics and we've made a change to this so now that the vehicle is actually sort of smoothly using the splines that we mentioned before they smoothly travel between their waypoints now and and from a distance it's actually pretty indistinguishable it's hard to even notice when that change happens so visually this looks a lot better so the next bonus thing that we're adding is