Are planets round or flat?

[Salem Graves]

If I go in one direction forever, will I go all the way around the planet, or is it just infinitely generated like Minecraft?

[GhedeWinkle]

all around. u can test that on a tiny moon .

[Cmdo.Delta]

You can go all the way around.

[Penitence]

Look at them from space and see the shape yourself.

[Master Queef]

Originally posted by Penitence:

Look at them from space and see the shape yourself.

Photoshop

[Salem Graves]

Originally posted by Penitence:

Look at them from space and see the shape yourself.

There's lots of games that are like that, but it's just an illusion and once you land on the planet it loads some other zone than what you were looking at from space.

[Cmdo.Delta]

Originally posted by Vera:

Originally posted by Penitence:

Look at them from space and see the shape yourself.

There's lots of games that are like that, but it's just an illusion and once you land on the planet it loads some other zone than what you were looking at from space.

Not this one then :p
Just on a big planet, good luck cuz it'll take forever. As someone else said, find a very small moon and try it. Good luck finding one small enough though lol

[Penitence]

Originally posted by Prince Baron:

Originally posted by Penitence:

Look at them from space and see the shape yourself.

Photoshop

Can't photoshop your sight.

[RichWebster]

You can fly around it. And the sky is different (planet locations), as well as time of day.

[jasper.mills]

Originally posted by Vera:

Originally posted by Penitence:

Look at them from space and see the shape yourself.

There's lots of games that are like that, but it's just an illusion and once you land on the planet it loads some other zone than what you were looking at from space.

Thats how Flat earth theory works

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Penitence:

Originally posted by Prince Baron:

Photoshop

Can't photoshop your sight.

AR glasses. ;)

[Master Queef]

Originally posted by Penitence:

Originally posted by Prince Baron:

Photoshop

Can't photoshop your sight.

thats what the government wants you to believe

[emperor_guam]

While I don't have definitive proof that the Planets in the game are flat I have some good evidence that the ground when ON a planet is flat.

Okay put on your tin foil hat because it is flat earth time!

If you land on a freighter have you ever jumped off of it? If you have you'll notice that you fall down. Like all of the spaceships in the game seem to have the same orientation on their Z axis it is always pointing down.

Why does this matter? Well it has to do with how most games calculate gravity. It is faster/easier to simulate gravity in a world where the player's specific gravity is just down the Z axis VS. Rotating the Player model around the axis of a planet that is a sphere and then calculating the direction that the player should fall. Like ALL games do it in flat worlds down the Z axis because it basically doesn't matter in a game.

Also if you have ever landed on a planet and fell through the world because bugs look down there is nothing below you suggesting that the world is flat.

Someone should ask the boundary break guy on youtube to prove it I guess.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

There are coordinates on planets and you can use them to plot your way to a known location.

Here is some helpful information:
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Planetary_coordinates

[Gumsk]

When I was testing extending base boundaries from one side of a moon to the other, it definitely seemed like a sphere, where at certain distances I could reach most of the planet in all directions but not directly opposite. If you do any HALO type reentries, you can see the curvature of the horizon, which is more pronounced on smaller bodies. Also, planet and atmosphere generation files base their calculations on a radius.

That can all be mimicked, but all signs point to sphere.

[Lil Puppy]

They're round, each planet has a generation seed and generate on the fly but they are completely round, you can test this out by summoning your freighter into the atmosphere and then going to the other side of the planet. Your freighter will proceed to sink into the horizon just like any other round planet in the real universe.