KalOfTheRathi
Nec Tributis
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Posted - 2015.06.03 01:17:00 -
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Don't do that. 
In the facility you were in, 'satellite launching facility', pressing ANY D-pad key will drop you through the bottom of the map/mesh. You essentially fall through the lowest game mesh and start to fall. Depending on many variables, unknown by myself, you can explode, fall into infinity (but only if you and your vehicle become separated). Regardless, you will die and lose your gear.
The pyramid structure was also is dubious. The more so if your vehicle is actually 'touching' the building or any of its internal ramps with the body of your vehicle.
You will die. Do not do this.
This has been true for a year or more. Ever since the satellite launching facility was deployed.
Technical aspects, please ignore if you aren't into programming:
A small floating point difference is somehow getting tangled up here. Imagine the floor of the facility is at 12.304 meters. The vehicle's center mass (the middle of the vehicle itself) is at 1.1 meters. It also has a hitbox to allow for fast calculation (or approximating) collisions.
You press a D-pad button. The game engine responds by giving you a different view.
However, it also reiterates over all known game objects. Those include everything close to your world location. However, during the process your vehicle isn't actually where it says it is. Because all vehicles bounce. They actually drop below the surface and bounce back up before settling into a somewhat stable position. The position is less than the 1.1 meters above, something like 1.04 meters (tires and all). However that causes a problem, it might even cause an exception or an error condition. Some error conditions will cause you to bounce. This one says you are already below the 12.304 meters that is the current bottom of the map by 0.06 meters.
This cannot be allowed by the game engine. The only solution is to destroy the object. That would normally be done by invoking ObjectDeath( Vehicle ). Which includes you as its passenger and your gear. Sad but true.
Normally this isn't an issue. But in a few locations of the map/mesh there is an oddity that makes the game engine believe you dropped below the bottom of the world. There are some locations in open areas as well, unknown by myself.
An interesting programming problem. Video game programmers are junk, BTW. Their solution will be to hack something that will work 98% of the time and call it good. Time is money and all that.
Welcome to the 2% that wasn't solved.
My favorite tank is a Lightning. Just sayin.
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