Player Traversal Mechanics in the Vast World of Horizon Zero Dawn

In this 2017 GDC session, Guerrilla Games' Paul van Grinsven explores the traversal system that allows Aloy to explore the vast world of Horizon Zero Dawn.
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[@SpikeTheSpiker]

This is potentially the best video out there on traversal mechanics. A lot of games dont have these and games engines don't give you these out of the box.

[@HardmoreGamer]

This is one of the best video on this channel.

[@submutant5139]

Awesome video. Thanks for the sharing the traversal mechanics. 👍

[@HyagoPinheiro]

I really like this video. I was implementing a Third Person Character Controller on Unity and now I have a much better idea on how to solve some code/animations problems I was facing.

[@poseeley]

4:57

[@unvergebeneid]

It's funny that he says that they wanted to have more of the world traverseable and would've liked to have had a navigation mesh. I actually positively noticed that there were relatively few invisible walls and you could go wherever you liked, except when the game wanted to keep you out of a certain area. My theory is that navigation meshes make it too easy to just punch a few holes into them for rough terrain so you end up with a game where less of the world is traverseable.

[@Ryanflees]

There's a detail I'm interested that when you play the blend tree of MoveStart with diferent directions and at any speed. How do you determine this "speed". Cuz if it's driven by animation with root motion, it doesn't have speed yet. so the speed might be determined by the input strength on your joystick.

[@CASIOF-91W]

Horizon Zero Dawn is a 10/10 game.

[@Illicit_Therapy]

Red Dead Redemption 2 needs all of this...

[@owensoft]

60fps please

[@RantKid]

Before watching...I'm just surprised to see this game bringing up the discussion; Horizon Zero Dawn was a fantastic game in its own right, but world traversal was definitely not one of its strong points.

[@dragoran149]

God! This presentation is really fascination but the cuts are horrible. After 15 minutes I needed a break ...