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Is there not a virtual world which can represent a contiguous series of locations larger than that of Minecraft?

by biot 13y ago

deletes 13y ago
You can try I-War 2:Edge of Chaos( space action-simulator with newton physics and inertia ) where the total contiguous world map is around 10^20 km( at least ). But of course most of it is empty as the solar system takes a relatively small place in the center of the map. And similarly to Minecraft if you teleport yourself into the high numbers you will get experience floating point accuracy problems, and weird things start to happen.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  > if you teleport yourself into the high numbers you will get experience floating point accuracy problems, and weird things start to happen Weird; in case of a space sim this should be a simple thing to fix (octree, for example).
  - deletes 13y ago
    You can't reach such areas without cheating or flying for years, so there is nothing to fix.
    - TeMPOraL 13y ago
      Space Kraken, the punisher of cheaters? :).
T-A 13y ago
Not really virtual worlds, but will let you fly through the universe and view it at different scales: http://en.spaceengine.org/ http://en.spaceengine.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
rkuykendall-com 13y ago
Going from the center of an MC map to the edge would take over a month of continuous walking [1], so I don't think there's much motivation to create anything larger. I have never heard of any situation anyone even reached the end of an MC world without explicitly teleporting there, although one man had been traveling there for the last 3 years [2]. [1] http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Far_Lands http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Far_Lands [2] http://farlandsorbust.com/ http://farlandsorbust.com/

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Is there not a virtual world which can represent a contiguous series of locations larger than that of Minecraft?

by biot 13y ago

Is there not a virtual world which can represent a contiguous series of locations larger than that of Minecraft?

deletes 13y ago
You can try I-War 2:Edge of Chaos( space action-simulator with newton physics and inertia ) where the total contiguous world map is around 10^20 km( at least ). But of course most of it is empty as the solar system takes a relatively small place in the center of the map. And similarly to Minecraft if you teleport yourself into the high numbers you will get experience floating point accuracy problems, and weird things start to happen.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  > if you teleport yourself into the high numbers you will get experience floating point accuracy problems, and weird things start to happen Weird; in case of a space sim this should be a simple thing to fix (octree, for example).
  - deletes 13y ago
    You can't reach such areas without cheating or flying for years, so there is nothing to fix.
    - TeMPOraL 13y ago
      Space Kraken, the punisher of cheaters? :).
T-A 13y ago
Not really virtual worlds, but will let you fly through the universe and view it at different scales: http://en.spaceengine.org/ http://en.spaceengine.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
rkuykendall-com 13y ago
Going from the center of an MC map to the edge would take over a month of continuous walking [1], so I don't think there's much motivation to create anything larger. I have never heard of any situation anyone even reached the end of an MC world without explicitly teleporting there, although one man had been traveling there for the last 3 years [2]. [1] http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Far_Lands http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Far_Lands [2] http://farlandsorbust.com/ http://farlandsorbust.com/