Hi all,

maybe i already asked this before but i can't find the post right now so i ask again does anybody know how to program the space that it seems to be endless and that you never reach the end of the sphere. I still have no clue how to program it because i'm not really good at programming. Any help is appreciated. Thx in advance.

Code:

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action sky_sphere {
while(1) {
vec_set(my.x, camera.x);
wait(1);
}
}

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Assign this one to your sky sphere.

and with this code it seems to be endless? And thx for your help.

one way is to reset the player position to the world origin every time he reaches the limits , the other is to move the world not the player , but I've only heard about this,never saw it in-game.

well thx for your help I will try that.

You could also move the object at a slightly slower speed than the camera. This would allow for perspective effects, but instead of apparently being 65,536 quants diameter, you could simulate something over 1 million quants diameter by making it move 15/16 as fast as the camera:

Code:

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my.x = camera.x/16;
my.y = camera.y/16;
my.z = camera.z/16;

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So, rather than the object being 1024 quants away from moving 1024 quants, it'd only change by 64 quants from moving 1024 which gives the sense of a huge distance.

So if I understand this right the skysphere moves faster than the entity or is it the other way around? It still a bit complicated what your saying I just want to understand it. And doesn't this code need a action or function or do I have to put that code just in my main script? But thx anyways for your help.

What this does is moves the entity at a speed slightly slower than that of the camera. With the camera at 65,536 as the position, the entity would've only moved 4096 quants from the start which isn't much at all. Increase the scaling, it would've only moved 1024 if the 64 was used instead of 16 making it seem 4 times further away.

Another example - if the camera was moving 64 quants per frame, the sky model would only move 4 quants per frame. You'd have the code like this to get it to work:

Code:

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action move_with_camera
{
	while(1)
	{
		my.x = camera.x/16; // play with the 16
		my.y = camera.y/16;
		my.z = camera.z/16;
		wait(1);
	}
}

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Increasing the number being divided by makes the sky sphere seem bigger. 16 means 16 times bigger thus, if the sky sphere was 1024 quants in diameter, this would simulate a diameter of 16384 quants. Change the 16 to 64 and the same sky sphere would simulate a diameter of 65,536.

Edit: didn't properly copy/paste message from Notepad - stupid browser tabbing bug....

Really thx very much.:D This sounds really cool thx again! And another short question do I have to assign this to the sphere or the entity and do I need a entity for this or does it work with the sphere only?
And thx again for your help.

It works with entities as well. I did something similar with my 3D game's clouds. Because I had an offset to get the clouds 2 miles high (I'd be level with them at 84,480 quants for the Z position), I had to make a few modifications, but this is the simplest it gets. You assign the action to the sky sphere. I suggest adding the scene flag to your sky sphere or strange things may happen.