The gunship slowly moves forward if you never actually leave the area.
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Redditor finds new obscure thing about samus's ship in metroid prime
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The gunship slowly moves forward if you never actually leave the area.
Sounds like a problem with a slightly off identity matrix. The way you build a 3D scene mathematically is through a series of transformations from a common root. There are two ways to conceptualize your relationship to the world -- model view, which is transforming around a central node that represents your model (i.e. your models relationship to the world), and world view, which is transforming around the central root nodes. I.e. if you want to render a model, you begin at the world view root node, then transform over to the central node position of the model, then draw polygons relative to this central node's offset in the world. Each time you place a new polygon, you translate the entire world over to the new position. I.e. if your polygon is a triangle which, in pure abstraction, is 3 points at (0, 0, 0), (-1, -1, -1), (1, 1, 1), that describes the polygon's shape assuming it is the entire center of the world. To account for this, you shift the world over so that the point you are drawing is the center of the world.
This happens thousands of times every frame, and for both the world view and model views, you have what are called identity matricies. A matrix is a packed mathematical concept that describes multiple 3D transformations in one single containing math formula (scaling, rotation, translation). The identity matrix is basically the concept of "1" in matrix form. It is used to reference scale, as it defines the relative scale of the world, and can also be used to reset transformations when beginning a new scene. If your identity matrix is off by a very tiny amount, over time, you'll get cumulative errors. For example, Lego lord of the rings uses an identity matrix that is, by an extremely minuscule amount, is not quite "1" and thus, over time, if unchecked by a loading screen, the characters will shrink. We're talking over days of time:
Soak tests are meant to reveal these kinds of bugs, it's where you leave your game running for days at a time to see if anything happens. And likely, they did notice this. But at the same time, they probably didn't care, because how many people are going to stay in this spot for days until this bug appears?
This happens thousands of times every frame, and for both the world view and model views, you have what are called identity matricies. A matrix is a packed mathematical concept that describes multiple 3D transformations in one single containing math formula (scaling, rotation, translation). The identity matrix is basically the concept of "1" in matrix form. It is used to reference scale, as it defines the relative scale of the world, and can also be used to reset transformations when beginning a new scene. If your identity matrix is off by a very tiny amount, over time, you'll get cumulative errors. For example, Lego lord of the rings uses an identity matrix that is, by an extremely minuscule amount, is not quite "1" and thus, over time, if unchecked by a loading screen, the characters will shrink. We're talking over days of time:
Soak tests are meant to reveal these kinds of bugs, it's where you leave your game running for days at a time to see if anything happens. And likely, they did notice this. But at the same time, they probably didn't care, because how many people are going to stay in this spot for days until this bug appears?
Metroid Prime had a ridiculously short dev time, but you would only be able to tell from silly bugs like these. Such an amazing game (still my GOAT!).
No sir. Rereleases of GameCube games would be considered remasters or remakes. It's only portbegging if you're asking for a modern game on a current platform to come to a different current platform.
But it says it took real-time days to see this occur. How would anyone (even you?) come across this with any regularity? Who spends days in the first part of the first level?
Honestly, I don't know. When I read the thread I thought, "Huh, that sounds really familiar" and remember it slightly moving. I was young at the time so who knows what I was doing, probably just running around and aiming at every little thing.
I could be totally wrong about it, but I do remember reacting to the ship being a little closer.
Edit: Metroid Prime was also my first first-person game outside of that green vector tank game so I messed around a lot, and I spent a lot of time in that room since I was afraid of going forward after watching my brother play it.
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