Floating point > Origin?

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I’m working on a Space exploration game and looking for methods to avoid the floating point errors when far from Origin.

Currently I’m experimenting with size, I’ve shrank the ship down to a mere 0.01; the Baseplate shown is 100, 1, 100 in size.
I intend to have the ships travel at 0.01 to give the illusion of slower movement across vast distance (Ofc there’ll be Hyperdrive etc.)
Would this work or does anyone have any other suggestions?

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Pretty good solution to fix unfixable bug, but consider changing material to smaller ones, they gonna look weird

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By material do you mean the actual Property? I’m looking at keeping the Ships as SmoothPlastic tbh just to mitigate that

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i think the size he meant in the reply

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btw nice game idea ngl gl at it

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Generate materials and make them small

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robloxapp-20240626-1750284.wmv (2.1 MB)

Just a very quick example of what this will be.

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hey(probably the original poster won’t see this but it is for future people looking here) i tryed to make some code that fixes this problem right now it’s looking like this:

local times = 0
local max_distance = 1000
game:GetService("RunService").PreSimulation:Connect(function()
	if times > 0 then
		return
	end
	local plr:Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	if nil == plr.Character then
		warn("no character")
		return
	end
	local rootpart:Part = plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart
	if nil == rootpart then
		return
	end
	if (rootpart.CFrame.Position).Magnitude < max_distance then
		return
	end
	local lastcframe = rootpart.CFrame
	rootpart.CFrame -= rootpart.Position
	game.Workspace:MoveTo(game.Workspace.WorldPivot.Position - lastcframe.Position)
	rootpart.CFrame += lastcframe.Position
end)

it basicaly sets the player’s position to 0,0,0 when a treshold is met and readjusts the workspace’s positions to match that

It has the issue though if you teleport the player too far it just puts them under the map for some reason(the quick fix right now is to just either increase the max_distance or make the teleport do steps of max_distance untill you are able to reach where you want)