{"id":4720,"date":"2017-02-12T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2017-02-13T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:00:39","slug":"p0-p-172-part-105-ship-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p0-p-172-part-105-ship-control\/","title":{"rendered":"P0-P-172: Part 105: Ship Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next goal is important, it is one of the core mechanics of the game.<\/p>\n

I need to add support for controlling large starships\/space stations, etc, with complex interiors.<\/p>\n

I have chosen to rotate and translate the world, and keep the ship at the origin, to prevent having to perform many translations and rotations (for each interior object) per tick.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, translating the world is quite simple, I can use the existing floating origin system to do it.<\/p>\n

Rotation objects is also fine, but the Space Exploration Engine doesn’t seem to have any support for rotating planets. This is causing a problem. I have tried various ideas to rotate the planet, and I got reasonably close by simply rotating all of the visible terrain chunks, but once rotated, the chunks don’t subdivide properly.<\/p>\n

I will need to dig deeper into the code to implement rotation of planets, but it does look like the general concept is sound.<\/p>\n

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