Transport sim / Procedural city generation
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:02 pm
Hey,
I have been working for past few weeks on a transport sim that focuses on city transport / public transport management.
To offer option to create and play scenarios (and not have same city over and over) I have also developed city generation on the way with different types of buildings, water (river and lakes), roads, railroad and transport hubs (airports, train and bus stations). I already have way to generate random city based on number of scenario parameters. I can have cities with or without water, with an airport or with just a bus station and so on.
It's still a prototype without graphics, but you can get the feeling. A city is based on a configurable grid (currently 100x100 blocks, but could be of any size) and sectors (random no. of blocks in width/height) where certain type of buildings (residential, industrial, commercial, greenery etc.) is more common than others. It already has lines with stops and passengers that react to environmental changes - e.g. they wait until there is a stop/line in their vicinity and can switch lines/vehicles in order to get to their destination. I have around 13 thousand passengers generated with individual destinations. Pathfinding fully works for cars (currently represented by dots), line vehicles and passengers.
I am aiming for something similar to Simutrans, but purely focused on towns/cities. Also, there will be less micro management and more of big picture such as line management (but not individual vehicles), rush hour transport peaks, traffic jams etc.
BTW, I might work more on OSMLove that will help to generate city grids based on actual cities (from OSM maps).
I have been working for past few weeks on a transport sim that focuses on city transport / public transport management.
To offer option to create and play scenarios (and not have same city over and over) I have also developed city generation on the way with different types of buildings, water (river and lakes), roads, railroad and transport hubs (airports, train and bus stations). I already have way to generate random city based on number of scenario parameters. I can have cities with or without water, with an airport or with just a bus station and so on.
It's still a prototype without graphics, but you can get the feeling. A city is based on a configurable grid (currently 100x100 blocks, but could be of any size) and sectors (random no. of blocks in width/height) where certain type of buildings (residential, industrial, commercial, greenery etc.) is more common than others. It already has lines with stops and passengers that react to environmental changes - e.g. they wait until there is a stop/line in their vicinity and can switch lines/vehicles in order to get to their destination. I have around 13 thousand passengers generated with individual destinations. Pathfinding fully works for cars (currently represented by dots), line vehicles and passengers.
I am aiming for something similar to Simutrans, but purely focused on towns/cities. Also, there will be less micro management and more of big picture such as line management (but not individual vehicles), rush hour transport peaks, traffic jams etc.
BTW, I might work more on OSMLove that will help to generate city grids based on actual cities (from OSM maps).