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Droxlyn
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2012.08.06 12:08:00 -
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Google has been fantastic in finding me ship size pictures with all of the ships to scale next to each other.
I just want a table that has Name, Length, Width, and Height. Bonus would be a calculated volume and the in-game official volume.
Using screenshots of the front/side of the caldari shuttle, I got 28m wide by 10m tall by 17m long to fill a volume of 5000 m3. (If you're checking my math, I rounded them down.)
However, the chart on http://interstellarprivateer.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/the-hangar-ship-sizes/ has the same ship at about 98m long and 40m tall.
Thanks, Drox |
baltec1
Bat Country
1815
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Posted - 2012.08.06 12:14:00 -
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One of them is wrong. |
Droxlyn
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
110
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:01:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:One of them is wrong. Yeah, the second pair would indicate that the ship is 1.5 meters wide wing tip to wing tip to fit 5000 m3.
Drox |
Cadfael Maelgwyn
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
31
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:05:00 -
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I take it you're planning to build scale models or something? |
Cpt Gobla
No Bullshit Jokers Wild.
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:08:00 -
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Isn't the volume only when it's packaged?
Not when it's assembled.
Meaning that the in-space sizes wouldn't match up to the in-hangar volume? |
Droxlyn
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
110
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:10:00 -
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Cadfael Maelgwyn wrote:I take it you're planning to build scale models or something? I'm trying to figure out why the game doesn't just list these values in the attributes panel. It would significantly help with the immersion if you had some hope of having an idea of how big these ships were.
I'm looking at a Hulk, Mackinaw, and Skiff and the game says they are 200, 150, and 100k m3 each respectively. They look about the same width and height, but each have different lengths. Just how long is each ship? How arbitrary are the volume numbers compared to the actual volumes?
Drox |
Droxlyn
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:14:00 -
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Cpt Gobla wrote:Isn't the volume only when it's packaged?
Not when it's assembled.
Meaning that the in-space sizes wouldn't match up to the in-hangar volume?
There are two volumes, look at the attributes tag.
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Velicitia
Open Designs
1047
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:17:00 -
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Thing is you're making it a box ... not necessarily taking into account the fact that it has a lot of deadspace, and is not just a cube.
so, longest part (stem to stern) is ~100 meters; tallest part is (keel to ... whatever) ~40 meters, and then the widest part is ... not listed. |
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
792
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:20:00 -
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They have been semi actively adjusting ship scale as they work on v3. The two biggest controversies lately is the Mach is smaller, the rifter is bigger.
I think they should just wait tell v3 is done and rescale everything at once as its own expansion feature as v3 has been. |
Droxlyn
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
110
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:21:00 -
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Velicitia wrote:Thing is you're making it a box ... not necessarily taking into account the fact that it has a lot of deadspace, and is not just a cube.
so, longest part (stem to stern) is ~100 meters; tallest part is (keel to ... whatever) ~40 meters, and then the widest part is ... not listed.
As far as your cargo hold/ship bay is concerned, they are liquids that fit as long as the total volume works, or at least you can always get the right dimensions.
Until I can cram as much tritanium around the ship's empty space as is left over, the "volume" of a ship must be its bounding box. (Tritanium as packing peanuts is packing peanuts HTFU.)
Drox |
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Corina Jarr
Spazzoid Enterprises Purpose Built
1184
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:31:00 -
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Droxlyn wrote:Velicitia wrote:Thing is you're making it a box ... not necessarily taking into account the fact that it has a lot of deadspace, and is not just a cube.
so, longest part (stem to stern) is ~100 meters; tallest part is (keel to ... whatever) ~40 meters, and then the widest part is ... not listed. As far as your cargo hold/ship bay is concerned, they are liquids that fit as long as the total volume works, or at least you can always get the right dimensions. Until I can cram as much tritanium around the ship's empty space as is left over, the "volume" of a ship must be its bounding box. (Tritanium as packing peanuts is packing peanuts HTFU.) Drox Um... no.
It doesn't matter how game mechanics treat the volume (it would be awesome, and painful, if the game treated them like the whole objects they are) they still are not boxes. |
Jagga Spikes
Spikes Chop Shop
74
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:37:00 -
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Davik Rendar's latest charts are accurate in respect to in-game lengths (at least, were until recently).
as for in-game dimension/volume issues, numbers are mostly arbitrary and set by gameplay reasons. |
Velicitia
Open Designs
1047
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Posted - 2012.08.06 17:49:00 -
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Droxlyn wrote:Velicitia wrote:Thing is you're making it a box ... not necessarily taking into account the fact that it has a lot of deadspace, and is not just a cube.
so, longest part (stem to stern) is ~100 meters; tallest part is (keel to ... whatever) ~40 meters, and then the widest part is ... not listed. As far as your cargo hold/ship bay is concerned, they are liquids that fit as long as the total volume works, or at least you can always get the right dimensions. Until I can cram as much tritanium around the ship's empty space as is left over, the "volume" of a ship must be its bounding box. (Tritanium as packing peanuts is packing peanuts HTFU.) Drox
Modern commercial aeroplane (Boeing 747) Wingspan -- 64.4 m (lets say 64) Length -- 70.6 m (lets say 71) Height -- 19.4 m (let's say 19)
So, it "takes up" 86,336 m3 of space (assuming it was a box).
The only part that matters (for carrying capacity) is the 6.1 meter wide cabin (we'll say 6). Ignoring the fact that it's not a simple cylinder for the entire length of the plane, the plane has a maximum carrying capacity of ~1978 m3 before taking into account the cockpit, and space needed for landing gear, communication and control systems, etc. |
Droxlyn
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
110
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Posted - 2012.08.06 18:03:00 -
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I'm not too worried about carry-capacity of the ships being larger than the ship itself. We have timelord technology for that. (See the various Secure Containers.)
Your 747 comparison is easy to compare to a Rifter. A Rifter has a volume of 27289 m3, but it probably does not have the wingspan of the 747. I can only see the length-height axis on this http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dh0LCKVuScs/S_E0NSmdrcI/AAAAAAAAAPc/uNK61ZvTzbM/s1600/Rifter_vs_747.png
My primary concern is: how, in-game, are we supposed to discover these common facts that any decent military vehicles book will give you right at the start of the description? I'm cool with the actual volume being smaller than the game-use volume. That can be chalked up to minimum safe distances and other easements.
Drox |
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
792
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Posted - 2012.08.06 23:07:00 -
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Such info, if a dev was inspired enough, could possibly be set up in the ship preview window useing the new tutorial preview pointers with bungee effect. You would just click the info corners to rotate though stats. http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/Firetempest/Previewsample.jpg |
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