EVE General Discussion

Not to mention the space krap that you get stuck on. What make's the mind boggle is why have mission rats flying around space krap with hit boxes twice the size of the object in question. How many more years before this get's fixed?
Maybe never, just like the eye-bleed fog.

There are two issues here: Shape and size. Complex objects have a shape that is not well represented by a collision sphere. You either need to use multiple spheres, accept one big one that causes annoying collisions, or accept one smaller one that allows for intersections. (The Domi use to stick out of its collision sphere, allowing small ships to get "inside" its tail.)

But the other issue is size. Most roids are roundish and would fit well into spheres. But the collision sphere they are given is far far bigger than it needs to be to insure you do not see a ship intersecting with it.

The issue the OP brings up is size, some collision spheres are far bigger than they need to be.

Maybe a bug report?

YES, FOR THE LOVE OF XENU.

Actually, you don't want them to mesh with the object, and that is rather simple to do really. All you need to do there is use the object mesh as the bounding sphere. Unfortunately, that only works well if you actually have collisions, else the ship will unrealistically pass into the object before bouncing back out, or maybe it'll hang and snag on the edge of it, not knowing which direction to go.

Sphere is obvious, but it will be centered on the objects pivot point center, which means that if it happens to be off center to allow for interesting movement, then one side will extend well beyond the edge in order to keep the other within. Thus, unusual asteroid collision spheres.

I'm fairly certain nobody actually uses cubes; boxes being a reference to a container.

I don't really know any of the above; it is all speculation, assumption, and only partially based in potential fact. I don't work in game development, so that is all I can really do. I did some 3D art once though.

Code isn't wrapped either, afaik; there can't possibly be any such thing in reality. What really happens is that code responds when something happens, such as a player model intersection a collision model.

The reason for spheres is simple. If you try to make collision objects to fit every possible shape and envelop them equally, you have to use each base model and inject hundreds of new models into the game that serve that purpose. A Sphere can be expanded as needed to envelop any model, and it can be told to do so by code based on the object it is intended to envelope. It is easy to define and manipulable. It requires one model.

Again, theoretical, but partially base on fact. I've read enough development discussion to gather at least something over the years.

PhysX and Tesselation could potentially change this, allowing collision 'boxes' to be generated from the models themselves, without any need for additional models or any great amount of code. The issue here, is that this would normally be generated client side, which does absolutely nothing in the game. Your Collision box likely wouldn't work.

Now, if you made a program that did this server side, and utilized GPU technology there to generate this, then it might work. We don't have anything like that though, so far as I know.

Instead, we have awkward bubbles that envelope objects and prevent us from intersecting with them, while having no visible structure themselves and no requirement for a physics model aside from where they define a parameter of another object, easily explained by autopilot and collision avoidance of the spacecraft.

edit: I might also add that spheres are ideal, as they have no faces that could reflect the surface of another of their faces, thus any push away from the collision sphere will be away from the collision sphere rather than into it. Unfortunately, this is where you get stuck between two or three of them as well.

Also, Stations have collision boxes somewhat like mentioned above, which is why you can get stuck on them. I imagine our ships do to, to some extent. Much less capable of being stuck in though. This might also explain why carriers are so small, despite that we'd like to see them realistically scaled.

tl;dr: someone needs to calibrate your ship sensors, they seem to be detecting a gravitational mass where there is none.

One of the many reasons why Sentry Carriers > Fighter carriers (esp now that we have DDAs). Warp to 70 will keep you clear of most all obstacles (and give you more time to escape that inty landing at 0.

CCP tried to fix an asteroid earlier today (15 February) --- the results were caught on cams all over Russia.

Or it was a demo of a new capital ship Orbital Strike for the summer release -- gotta love kinetic bombardment.

Very cool.

CCP Fixed the Asteroid in Infiltrated outposts! =)