What is the maxium number a vector can handle

Question

Hi,
Well since I have not recieved any replies as of yet to my
other question, and since I need to push my project along, I
decided to use the behaviour scripts given at director-online/havok
site, and I applied them to my car. In additioin, I am also trying
to use the create terrain behaviour that is included in the raycast
jeep demo. However, I would like to set my terrain size to 6000
units in width and 6000 units in depth. So when I attach the
behaviour to the 3d scene, the getPropertyDescriptionList dialog
window opens to allow you to set the terrain's size, which it asks
you to set the upper left corner vector which I set it to
vector(3000, 0, -3000) and then it asks you to set the lower right
coner vector which I set this to vector(-3000, 0, 3000) which in
total should give me the size of 6000 units in width and 6000 units
in depth. However, after I click on the "OK" button my values
change to the following...
upper left corner = vector(3.00000e3, 0, -3.00000e3)
lower right corner = vector(-3.00000e3, 0, 3.00000e3)
In addition, not only that the whole number changed from 3000
to 3, but the biggest problem is that because the end values have
the e3 added to it I get a script error when I play the movie. So I
was wondering if there is a maximum number that a vector unit can
handle? If so then is there another type of format I could use that
handle larger numbers? Or is this a bug in Director 8.51. Yeah I
know, I am way behind in the software versions, but I do not have
$1200 to shovle out for a new version of Director.

Answer 1

Oh I see. So I guess what you are saying is that is
Director's way of compressing vector numbers. Also, as to what you
were saying about the number 3000 is sure not the limit for vector
units, I think I was just jumping the gun considering that I only
glanced at the script error, and then clicked on the debug button
to see where the error happened. Then once I looked at the varibles
in the varible window, I saw these weird numbers with the e3 at the
end of them, and I just thought that it could not add the vectors
together with the e3 at the end of each vector unit. However, to
make a long story short, I detached the script and reattached it
which did no create the error again, and I learned that Director
can add vector units together that have an e3 at the end of each
vector unit. So thanks for clarifying what the e3 means.