Anybody ever tried to break local physics by building a ship >2km?

[herbal space program]

Just wondering if anybody has ever tried to build something on orbit that's so big it won't fit inside the standard 2km physics envelope, and what happens if you do. Tempted to try if the answer is no...

[Capt. Hunt]

that's a good question for @Whackjob but IIRC you can't build that big.

[bewing]

The physics bubble size depends on the current "situation" your ship is in. The standard bubble size for prelaunch, landed, and splashed is only 300 meters.

In atmospheric flight, it's something like 22.5km. In space, it's 15km, IIRC. It's all listed out at the bottom of your physics.cfg file anyway.

 

 

[JadeOfMaar]

@herbal space program I hope 34km is enough for you. 

By @Stratzenblitz75 

 

[herbal space program]

10 hours ago, bewing said:

The physics bubble size depends on the current "situation" your ship is in. The standard bubble size for prelaunch, landed, and splashed is only 300 meters.

In atmospheric flight, it's something like 22.5km. In space, it's 15km, IIRC. It's all listed out at the bottom of your physics.cfg file anyway.

 

 

I only know about space, but in space another ship will start getting its physics calculated when it is right about 2km away. When it happens the lag is really obvious if the part counts on either ship are high. I guess that would make the physics bubble 4km across rather than 2km, but I'm pretty sure it's not 15.

[jrodriguez]

The answer is yes..not 2km but 300km!

 

Edited June 19, 2018 by jrodriguez

[FireKerb]

You have to be weary though.

Some mods allow increased physics bubbles.

[Dafni]

On 6/19/2018 at 12:23 PM, jrodriguez said:

The answer is yes..not 2km but 300km!

 

Somehow that video creeps me out.

[ArmoredLipid]

I vaguely recall a video in which someone was assembling an orbital computer; at the time of posting, said computer was about 10 miles long and mostly composed of RAM memory made by a series of Clamp-O-Tron docking port-equipped craft. Whenever a certain function was triggered, a certain set of ports would decouple. I think that the RAM was empty Rockomax X200-8 fuel tanks with Clamp-O-Tron Senior docking ports on both ends.