Trivia: I played the EGA version first, and felt later versions did not set the right mood at the start. Recently I found that the EGA version shows a sunset when you first enter the town, and the night version later, so you arrive there just at sunset, and everything else happens at 10pm iirc.

You might still get some convincing volume effect easily if the view never gets close: from the grayscale noise, use simple parallax mapping for volume, and the screen space derivatives (dFdx or ddx) to get a normal for shading (that's how I got the shading out of a grayscale texture here:)

I added support for rendering some shapes too, based on the excellent work by @iquilezles.bsky.social

It can render text, generate a SDF texture out of it, and then apply real-time effects, fully customisable with a variety of parameters. The idea is to animate many of these as a result of user interaction.

I have been working on a signed distance field texture renderer, to develop a better understanding of how it works for a personal project. Using #Typescript and #threejs, the source is available #opensource (links below)

Have you thought of randomising the path vertex locations per vehicle, within a radius ? That way they might travel at different speed, but be able to pass each other without much actual AI as the paths won't overlap that much

The printed version

Short video showcasing a bit of gameplay and switching day/night and graphic generations:

First post! I'm a software engineer developing graphics-related #opensource projects on my spare time. Check my profile for the GitHub link!

My retroflightsim project, attempting to recreate the late 80s-early 90s flight sims using #Typescript and #Three.js: