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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Erratic motion at large distances

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SteveS
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Posted: 1st Dec 2004 03:47
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Is there any way that you can get around the erratic motion at large distances, I'm currently working on a space sim and would like everything to be in scale, the distances I am talking about are greater than 1,000,000 from 0,0,0, I have already scaled everything down by 10, even so the ships need to be a bit small to look right.

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Sparda
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2004 12:32
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Not quite sure what you mean by erratic motion at great distances. In fact the motion should appear smoother because it is crossing a smaller distance in the field of vision.


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SteveS
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What I mean is that when you get far from the centre my ship starts to move erratically, I think the problem lies in the fact that using normal floats, at large numbers there is not enough decimal places left for precise postioning of your object, I have noticed that DBP can use double floats, although I'm not quite sure how to emplement them.
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