Creative ways to hide the edge of the game world

Unity Engine
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If your game world isn’t infinite, you probably came across the edge-of-the-world issue:

How can you hide the edge of the world so players won’t notice it?

Here are some of the common ways I know.
If you know other ways, please post them!

  • Fog - The most common way of hiding the edge. Cover the edges with fog and put an invisible collider there so the player won’t be able to walk through.
  • Objects - If your scene takes place in an urban area, you can surround the area with buildings to hide the nothingness beyond them. Or, if your scene is in nature - a thick layer of trees and vegetation.
  • Pits - Surround the world with pits or canyons. The player will be able to fall into them, but this will cause him to respawn. A great use of this method can be found in the game Warframe.
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I don’t know how they did it, I think it was some sort of procedural mirroring (I’m really guessing here) but you could look at HorizON on the Asset Store. I have not looked at it in a year or so, but I suspect it’s still up there, and it’s designed to do exactly what you’re talking about: Limited game world and high enough vantage point that it reveals the edge of the world.

Fog has its limitations as it reacts in a funny manner with skyboxes unless you have some custom world coordinate depth fog.

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just make big barrier like in gothic-game, and put it in the scenario :sunglasses:

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Looks awesome!