World Scale

[liamrudel]

As some of you may know, I have mentioned to the devs and once on IRC that the scale seems a bit off. It looks as though the world is huge yet rabbot can run to the top of a huge mountain in a manner of seconds. After the discussion I felt like my point was not fully understood so I decided that I should make a level to demo what I mean, so here it is:


And now with rabbot:


As you can see he is huge!
I even think the buildings could have been smaller, but then the tools became unuseable.
I can post up the level if people want it.

I think the solution would be to scale up the world quite a bit.

[Hale]

Maybe it's just because I've used the alpha too much, but to me it just looks like a miniature town. I see your point, then again, your very model off in regards to scale. Seeing as your doors almost reach the top of the roof, I'd expect that to be a closet, not a house.

[liamrudel]

I think your missing my point a bit, the door isn't a big deal, I find the editor hard to use in it's current state. And those houses are more like 1 room huts.

[Luke!]

did you scale everything as tiny as you can?
because when i spawn a roof or a block beside rabbot and i don't scale it, the block is almost the double size of rabbot, same with the roof
also the resize tool is very handy so if you see that a house is to small you can scale the whole house
i think making rabbot a little bit smaller would be fine but not to much, at least we are talking about OVERgrowth

[Endoperez]

did you scale everything as tiny as you can?
because when i spawn a roof or a block beside rabbot and i don't scale it, the block is almost the double size of rabbot, same with the roof
also the resize tool is very handy so if you see that a house is to small you can scale the whole house
i think making rabbot a little bit smaller would be fine but not to much, at least we are talking about OVERgrowth

The name tells nothing. It could be that the rabbot has overgrown the world, or the world rabbot. Something is big, but we don't know which.

The scale affects things like whether terrain feels like a plain, a hilly ground or a mountain range. It also depends on how big levels are going to be made - making the terrain bigger in relation to the rabbot essentially makes it bigger (more content fits into a single map).

[liamrudel]

After a chat on IRC I'm sure Aubrey will get the scale nailed, but continued disscussion is welcome!

[TheBigCheese]

Yeah, the scale was the first thing I noticed.

If it was meant to be a hilly plain, then the mountains are completely out of place.

I think the map's scale should be increased around 2-4 times.

[Jendraz]

Good catch, I see what you're saying. Although it is fun to treat mountains as playthings.

[Sumguy720]

Rabbot was clearly designed 50x scale in order to contain the awesomeness that will grow into every single character in the overgrowth universe, including Turner.

He's like a rabbit Cronus.

[Hal1989]

It's Rabbotzilla!

[Count Roland]

except cronus was kind of a jerk.

[kehaar]

I can't use the alphas on my ppc mac ,but can you guys tell me how far it is to run from one side to the other? Roughly, I mean, in game space.

Reason I ask is I made a modded heightmap for Lugaru with really steep-walled canyons, very tall, high enough where you would ragdoll and crash if you ran off a ridge toward the valley. Pretty fun to run around on, dangerous to fight on, dramatic, etc.

The problem was that the map shrank (from one invisible wall limit to the other) down to about a mile as the crow (or eagle) flies. You could see way into the distance to some cool volcano things I made in the heightmap, but you hit the wall.

I know diddly about computers, but I'm guessing the available floor space is set and gets used up quicker if the wrinkles are deeper and higher in the heightmap.

Will the OG space be big enough to handle deep canyons and not run you into the wall too soon?

[Sumguy720]

except cronus was kind of a jerk.

haha. I'm guessing you didn't see the agressive A.I. rabbot. Oh man. Total ass.