Every thing in Eve is a sphere and all calculations done off such sphere and each items sphere is different sized. Never will match the geometry of the ship... Technically your ship doesn't even have a front or back, that's why aligning then coming to stop has same warp time as never aligning in first place.

While I agree that it works like this for ships, and likely asteroids, how about stations? or other Large Collectable objects? I'm pretty sure that at least for stations there is more to it than just making a giant circle barrier.

I'm wondering just how the collision modelling works in the game. I'm pretty sure that the collision outline is not some circular barrier around objects, as in some cases it somewhat conforms to a structures graphical model, but in many cases it also seems very far off from matching.

I would really like it if these collision models could more properly conform to the graphical one as it would allow for more skilled and accurate line of sight navigation.

Every thing in Eve is a sphere and all calculations done off such sphere and each items sphere is different sized. Never will match the geometry of the ship... Technically your ship doesn't even have a front or back, that's why aligning then coming to stop has same warp time as never aligning in first place.

Ever got stuck in an acceleration gate? Those things are anyything but spheres.

While I agree that it works like this for ships, and likely asteroids, how about stations? or other Large Collectable objects? I'm pretty sure that at least for stations there is more to it than just making a giant circle barrier.

Yes, I think it's easy to show that collision detection is not as simple as ships and structures being single spheres.

For combat calculations, alignment, etc. they are treated as spheres as far as I'm aware, but I think CCP moved on a long time ago from basing collision detection of the textures on simple spheres.

I don't have any real evidence of what the surface is based on now, but it seems trivial to show it's not a sphere.

Ships are pretty much spheres because they don't have a facing.
Terrain objects imagine them as a group of spheres put together and you will probably be right, it makes for simple modelling since you only have to check for where you are in relation to a handful of points to decide if you are bumping into it or not.

Obviously I don't have EVE's code base to confirm this, but it matches with in game behaviour.

To give a little information here, not every object or ship has only a single sphere.

For example the Rokh seems to be two-three spheres glued together because it's a fairly long ship. Larger things with complex geometry are represented by clusters of spheres. For example if you could look at the collision map of an Astrahus it would look like a weird Citadel shaped mass of gumballs or soap bubbles.

All of Eve is a series of spheres - or it was

You mean that they are going to give away stations?

Put me on the list!

Seriously, maybe you meant Large Collidable Objects?

Imagine if you couldn't actually shoot guns through objects and missile range was reduced because they have to fly around objects. Can you imagine how different this game would be all of a sudden?

You could use large ships to tank! :D