Anyone used the explorer to transport goods over long distances? You can get to places that are impossible with the trucks and can make them jump over cliff gaps. With the trucks you need to build concrete ramps along their route alot of the time and need a legit cleared out road for them to use. Was thinking it would be fun seeing the explorers jumping around transporting goods like that.
External link →i love watching automated explorers doing crazy stuff. i wonder if the explorer is reliable though? it's tuned a bit differently.
I was wondering about that. I have not tested its ability to climb steep cliffs while under AI control, so I don't really know how well it works.
Yeah. Because the AI doesn't record your throttle/brake. It only focuses on the next waypoint and just accelerates towards it and/or brakes not to miss it. So this might cause some inconsistencies.
Thats what I figured from watching their behavior. So trying to have it jump over ravines or climb steep cliffs would not work.
NOT WITH THAT ATTITUDE at least :P
u/JaceAtCoffeeStain I was at the belief the vehicles did record a rough speed based on the distance covered within the time period allotted (I believe roughly one second) between waypoints when recording a path.
I have actually recorded multiple paths within a central elevated factory building where when recording I drive at no more that 20 KMH (KPH) on entry and accelerate to full speed on exit, when testing the path on autopilot it does actually slow down when entering the building and accelerate to full speed on exit.
The Building has a large concrete floor with an entry and exit and about 8 truck stops aligned one after the other with a two concrete floor separators between them (to prevent undesired unloading), The vehicle follows a single width concrete floor path and when arriving at it's destination veers left into the desired truck stop one concrete block to the left of the main path.
the vehicles will slow down/speed up in order to reach their waypoint. sometimes that means to slow down, or reverse (eg. when missing the waypoint, or colliding and coming to standstill).
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