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CCP Darwin
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Posted - 2015.01.12 17:58:33 -
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Someone made this neat video showing the scale of EVE ships in relation to human beings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bac6yvYzaVI
Bottom line: you probably could not make out the people inside even the smallest ships.
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Quote:it's too difficult to put a rotating radar above the capital ships roofs (tecnically speaking ?
You mean like on the Dragoon?
I should point out that as we redesign ships we've been prone to add more animation to them, but there are a LOT of ships in the game, and generally that kind of treatment works better when it's part of the overall design plan for a hull rather than tacked-on.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Technical Artist, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Posted - 2015.01.12 18:46:00 -
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Tusker Crazinski wrote:and windows.... why would you ever put windows on a spaceship?
Imagine you were building a real spaceship: What kind of monster would you need to be NOT to add windows?
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Technical Artist, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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CCP Darwin
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Posted - 2015.01.12 19:01:46 -
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Seriously, some good ideas here, thanks for getting a discussion started.
My intention in pointing out the scale of the ships wasn't to shoot down the idea, but more to point out that there are issues of scale in trying to represent little people walking around inside ships somehow.
If you have more ideas about what would make the world of the game seem more lived-in, please keep posting.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Technical Artist, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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CCP Darwin
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Posted - 2015.01.13 07:25:12 -
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Tusker Crazinski wrote:for the same reason you don't put windows on a submarine.
You don't put windows on a submarine because the pressures the submarine has to withstand are far greater than what a spacecraft has to sustain. Also, because deep under the ocean there's no light.
Meanwhile, on real spacecraft (such as the ISS) windows are a major feature and extremely popular among crews.
Of course a crewed ship is going to have windows.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Technical Artist, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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