Petrus Blackshell
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Posted - 2012.04.03 15:43:00 -
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Michael Foreman wrote:Adunh Slavy wrote:I've wished for a sense of scale too. One possible way to do it is have people walking around when in hangar view, just doing ship maintenance, loading and unloading cargo. Granted it is a bit difficult with all sorts of ship sizes, so they could just be walking around under the ship or driving a forklift and such things. No need for these elements to "touch" the ship.
It would also help stations feel more alive, right now you're just kind of there in a big fancy box, only in the Amarrian station is there any sense of life, and that is from the shuttle buses moving around. Exactly what I forgot to add to this post. If we would be able to approach closer to the ship and just be able to walk around under the ship combined with zooming out alot more then this would give us the proper sense of scale. That would be fantastic!
The ships are a bit big for that. An 1 km long ship would take you about 15 minutes walking from one end to another, and that's just a small battleship.
I support some sort of change to add more perspective to ships. What's happening here is the sort of effect all tourists have fun with when taking photos of themselves and the Eiffel Tower, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa, where, due to lack of depth perception, the sizes of objects appear off -- and people look the size of buildings and vice versa. The Eve hangar has a sort of haze that is supposed to help with the depth perception, but it's not anywhere close to enough. This is the main reason I don't bother with CQ: I like viewing the differences between the ships I fly.
Both of the solutions discussed here would work. I would prefer a fixed distance to the ship in hangar, even if it results in frigates being a speck, or in battleships overflowing the screen.
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