Finding reference for a Hongqi CA72
One puzzle in the game revolves around a classic chinese car Hongqi CA72. So I will need to model it for the game.
Player Car model first pass
This week I spent a few evenings working on the car 3D model. I already knew I wanted the car to be a Chevrolet Caprice from 1987. This would be an accurate car for a detective in New York in the year 1991.
Cross-Platform & car update & UI
I spent some time refactoring the project to be cross compatible across a maximum number of devices. I had to change from High Definition Render Pipeline to Universal Render Pipeline.
3-point turns
Working on the car AI has been more enjoyable than I thought. I was driving in my car today and could not stop thinking about how the car in my game needs to “think” in order to get from place to another faster.
Fast-travel for open world point & click
An open world game will be full of vast empty areas you need to cross. I did not want to do a fade-to-black-teleport type of travel, so I figured I will give the player character a car!
