[Bug] Minor rendering glitch at "extreme" map distances

Trevor · Jul 6th 2018

I'm at map location ~73700, 80, 10800. This far from 0,0 there appears to be a minor rendering glitch. Held items jitter when the player PoV changes as there is a slight disconnect between rendering the item and rendering the player's hand. Similar jitter can be observed around the base of trees.

Further testing by moving to 200,000, 70, 0 results in much greater jitter.

Game performance is otherwise fine.

Minotorious · Jul 6th 2018

You are not supposed to go so far XD especially on servers it can cause huge problems in placing precision and rendering.

The safe zone is up to 10000 in each direction as the game still needs optimisation

Trevor · Jul 6th 2018

Yeah, I dunno how this player got his base out that far, but he's there

Minotorious · Jul 6th 2018

Well. I would recommend moving them as they will get super frustrated when they will be placing a beam and the beam will be actually placed next to the spot they are trying to place it

Above 10k = huge placement problems and inaccuracy for now unfortunately

red51 · Jul 11th 2018

Basically this comes from rounding errors, or more precisely, it's caused by the limited precision of floating-point numbers... it's getting worse the further you move away from the origin of the world
Implementing an "infinite world" is on our todo list, but currently only the terrain generation is "infinite" (at least it has no restrictions). Due to these precision issues, the playable area is more or less restricted to ~ 10,000 (in every direction)

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