Extended simulation distance?

[SergeantBlueforce]

I notice that the simulation distance for craft seems to have been increased to 8KM or so. I've been away for a while, but I read the changelogs and I don't recall any notes on this.

Does anyone know when this was added?

[nigelvn]

It increased from 2 km to around 20 km in the 1.0 update

[sam.johnson841]

the 20km thing is only when in atmosphere.

- Sam

[viktor19]

the 20km thing is only when in atmosphere.

- Sam

To be precise, I think it's 22.5 km but only in atmosphere.

[John FX]

Shame it`s not everywhere. It`s still only 2.5km in space from my experience ( at least craft have to be that close to change ships with the square brackets)

[Mic_n]

doesn't really need to be everywhere... That range represents what's referred to as the "physics bubble", and that's only really important in atmosphere, where aerodynamic lift and drag need to be modelled.. otherwise craft can just be thought of as a point mass "on rails", ie in a fixed orbit.

Maybe when they upgrade to a newer engine and can handle multithreading they can increase it more, but at the moment they're a little limited in just how many physics calcs the system can process.