Pedestrians are coming soon!
As many know, it’s been a long time since we announced adding pedestrians to the cities. Initially we wanted to just make them walk on pavement so that the city will not look empty. Then we decided it was not exactly what we wanted and we started working on pedestrians who can also cross the crosswalks. However, this update affects not only the feeling of the city, but the following factors as well:
1) Other cars should stop before the pedestrian crossing while there are people crossing the road. Bus driver should always pay attention in order not to crash into a braking car or not to hit a man.
2) Pedestrians can affect the whole traffic so old schedule could not fit now.
3) We are also correcting the traffic lights as pedestrians need some time to cross the road. People should wait until the traffic light turns green and they should stop if they see that they won’t cross the road before it turns red again.
Nevertheless, there were some technical difficulties:
1) The game now has even more objects with their own behavior, and that caused an additional usage of hardware resources.
2) Initially, the map was not intended to be used with pedestrians as there were other tasks back in the day. Pavements were using the same structure as roads. Sometimes, even Terrain object was used as pavement and somewhere there were fences, poles and other objects which were preventing pedestrians from walking normally.
Generally, a simple feature became a complex system for which we had to do some refactoring and consider a big number of issues that could occur. That’s why release was delayed. Now we’re testing the update which means that the big update is going to be released soon.
P.S. By the way, you can see the new version of PAZ-3205 on the screenshots.
1) Other cars should stop before the pedestrian crossing while there are people crossing the road. Bus driver should always pay attention in order not to crash into a braking car or not to hit a man.
2) Pedestrians can affect the whole traffic so old schedule could not fit now.
3) We are also correcting the traffic lights as pedestrians need some time to cross the road. People should wait until the traffic light turns green and they should stop if they see that they won’t cross the road before it turns red again.
Nevertheless, there were some technical difficulties:
1) The game now has even more objects with their own behavior, and that caused an additional usage of hardware resources.
2) Initially, the map was not intended to be used with pedestrians as there were other tasks back in the day. Pavements were using the same structure as roads. Sometimes, even Terrain object was used as pavement and somewhere there were fences, poles and other objects which were preventing pedestrians from walking normally.
Generally, a simple feature became a complex system for which we had to do some refactoring and consider a big number of issues that could occur. That’s why release was delayed. Now we’re testing the update which means that the big update is going to be released soon.
P.S. By the way, you can see the new version of PAZ-3205 on the screenshots.