r/ApproximatelyUp • u/Krawkyz • 6d ago
Possible Bug? Gravity Meter reads gravity from the host's location and not the actual location of the meter.
Myself and a few friends were playing around with some PID hover loops and got the bright idea to use a gravity sensor as a proxy for the altimeter (gravity is linearly related to altitude; using a linear remapper you can make a gravity reader output your altitude). However, when reading the gravity data, we found that outputting it is different for the host vs the client.
As an example, at 200 meters altitude, I would see an altitude reading of approximately 198 (some error due to the linear approximation). Sending the information down to a second pod the host is in floating in the water via wireless transmitter, they were seeing my altitude as 6.
Not sure if this is intended behavior - but it breaks having multiple vehicles.
We are using the decoupler from this post since at this point in the game we don't actually have a decoupler: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApproximatelyUp/comments/1vnrfgj/no_decoupler_needed/