In what kind of variable type is the player position stored on a MMORPG such as WoW?

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Published on 2010-09-18T09:39:47Z Indexed on 2012/11/17 17:23 UTC
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I even heard J. Carmack quickly talk about it...

How a software can track a player's position so accurately, being on a such huge world, without loading between zones, and on a multiplayer scale ? How is the data formatted when it passes through the netcode ?

I can understand how vertices are stored into the graphic card's memory, but when it comes to synchronize the multiplayer, I can't imagine what is best.

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