Players clumb together once localPlanet gets null about nebula HOT 9 CLOSED

We should log the GameMain.mainPlayer.transform.position to look at what is our position when we are in space. I wonder if they are doing some matrix transformation of the world to fake the player movement in space to avoid floating point precision issues.

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Alright, so I've been doing some digging and it's exactly what I thought. So to avoid floating point precision issues, what they did is that while the player is on a local planet, the planet is your world origin and they move the player physically around the planet. But then as soon as you leave the planet and you are moving in space, they are doing a clever trick of instead snapping the player to the position 0,0,0 in the world, the player never moves, its the world / planets that move towards the player.

That way the player will never experience floating point imprecision when the floating point number becomes to big.

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That being said, it will be tricky to fix this issue. We will need to find a way to fake the remote player position when they "move" in space next to us. Also, we must hide the remote players that are not on our local planet else we will kind of be seeing every players that are on all the other planet on our planet since the player coordinate system is the same on all planets.

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We can just compare the localPlanet.id too determine who needs to be visible and who needs to be hidden.

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But what if 2 players are in space? Wouldnt they both be at the origin?

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I guess thats whats happening, see the image at the top

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Yupp, so either we make it so players cant see eachother in space, or we need to calculate an offset to render remote players

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I think players should be able to see each other in space, else it would look really weird if you fly together and the other disappears suddenly.

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I'm currently working on this

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