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I am not sure if this question has been asked before but will there be physics – rigged props and objects in the general universe and on planets that we can interact with? Such as glasses and cups that can be knocked over, rubbish bins that can be knocked over and moved or cleaned up again ... etc

So that's definitely the case. You can go around Covalex Shipping Hub now, there are definitely floating items that are all region entities that you can push around. There's been some pretty cool videos made, but one video was taking the noodle dispenser machine and pushing it out loading it into a Constellation and flying back to Port Olisar which was pretty awesome! So essentially yes absolutely. We actually had more in Crusader originally when we were developing and we took some of them out. Mainly because we still got to work on the, now working for all these rigid entities to be efficient so they're not always sending messages.Basically if a cup is sitting on this table and it's not moving there's no reason for it say "update" there's no reason for it to do anything over the network. CryEngine doesn't really work that way so we've been spending a lot of time and we still are spending a lot of time trying to fix and refactor that. You're sort of seeing problems that come with the CryEngine old way of doing things. Cause really it was built as a single player game so a lot of the updating is player centric but the problem we have is so for instance if there's sixteen players on the Crusader map and they all go to different comms arrays well they're all triggering different AI in different spots on the server and it's running all these AI and then it's also telling every single client what all these AI are doing but i'm flying around and i'm at comm array A over here and someone's at comm array B over there, I don't really need to know what's happening in comm array B, I just need to know what's happening in my area.So we have to refactor the updating of the object and also the network messaging to it's more specific to what people's view is and that's ongoing sort of network task we have and part of that is going to have a more efficient network version for simple rigid bodies so you can have the cups on the table and you can have more props around. The idea would be to physicalise chairs, props like that so you can push them around or whatever. If you're flying in your ship and the gravity goes off and you haven't bolted things down they could float and all the rest of the stuff. That is definitely our goal and you will see more of that as time goes on.

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