Black Window after player Z position > 2000

[Slastraf]

When I move the player a long distance from the world origin,
firstly the shadows disappear and after Z > 2000 the screen is totally black
First it is all normal:

then shadows disappear


and then (z> 2000) only things from postrender get drawn on the screen.

Position x:7.6799964904785 y:1.4799995422363 z:1264.5567626953 -- round about here shadows disappear (+-50)
Position x:7.6799974441528 y:1.4799995422363 z:2033.2707519531 -- here black screen (+-50)

[Josh]

Floating point errors will occur as you get further from the origin. 2000 units seems a bit low though.

[Slastraf]

Just now, Josh said:

Floating point errors will occur as you get further from the origin. 2000 units seems a bit low though.

That's what I thought, too 

[Slastraf]

I have not come closer to the issue, but it might be that I am setting the camera position by SetPosition and the player does not "move", I also place him with SetPosition. Maybe some kind of vector doesnt update the position ?

[Slastraf]

Update, in the video even an empty project with the fps player and high movement speed, I can get to the "edge".
In this case it seems to be at z +  ~1503 and 1513
How come this happens ?

[Slastraf]

2 minutes ago, Slastraf said:

Update, in the video even an empty project with the fps player and high movement speed, I can get to the "edge".
In this case it seems to be at z +  ~1503 and 1513
How come this happens ?

I have newest gfx drivers ..
And some more files:

FPSPlayer.lua start.map

[Slastraf]

Please

[Josh]

You can even see this in the editor.

It's not how far the shadow-casting object is from the origin, it's how far the camera is...

shadow range.map

[Josh]

And it looks like the camera position has to be at around 65,000 on one axis before the shadow disappears. Since the editor is using centimeters, that means 650 meters or so...

[Josh]

see here...

[Josh]

If you have a C++ project, I suspect calling world->SetSize(5000) might fix this error but I am not sure yet...

[Josh]

Click on the root node in the scene hierarchy tree to display the Map properties.

Set the size to 4096.

Enjoy.

[Slastraf]

It seems to be very small at 4000 aswell.
In this scene I put the size to 4000 in the editor and did the same thing from before but the player still disappeared.
This is a major issue to the game I want to develop, and even still this should not be the limit to this engine.

[Marcousik]

On 5/22/2021 at 7:11 PM, Slastraf said:

It seems to be very small at 4000 aswell.
In this scene I put the size to 4000 in the editor and did the same thing from before but the player still disappeared.
This is a major issue to the game I want to develop, and even still this should not be the limit to this engine.

What now? Is this solved or not?

I played a lot with 4096x4096 maps with a lot of models and never got an issue, so this is strange...

Maybe I don't understand this.

So you say the player + shadow disappear at the edges of the map? Is that correct?

[Marcousik]

I think to build a infinite world you should leave the player in the center of the world, and move the world around him, or somethin g like that .... Or re-center the world on the origin after the player moves > 500