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Carl Miller
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Spaceship scale

#1 Post by Carl Miller »

What scale should I use for spaceships? The one I'm planning to draw is 5 km long, which, at Shipbucket scale, would be 33,333 pixels :?
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SB scale is the biggest here, we have also FD scale for vehicles and ALVAMA scale for monsters.
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#3 Post by heuhen »

Rhade wrote:SB scale is the biggest here, we have also FD scale for vehicles and ALVAMA scale for monsters.
and you have HeuHen scale that is even bigger!
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heuhen wrote:and you have HeuHen scale that is even bigger!
What scale would that be?
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#5 Post by Rhade »

Death Norwegian Star scale ... :lol:

Well, we don't have a scale for 5km long constructs.
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Your own custom built scale?
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#7 Post by Rhade »

We use 10 m scale in SB, you can just add additional 0 ... and in our 100 m you will get 1000 m. Not to many details on that ship then.
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#8 Post by klagldsf »

Carl Miller wrote:What scale should I use for spaceships? The one I'm planning to draw is 5 km long, which, at Shipbucket scale, would be 33,333 pixels :?
You're going to be drawing a Star Destroyer?

Unless you're drawing real spaceships (of which currently there is none that would be too big for Shipbucket scale) you're better off using whatever arbitrary scale you think works best. We're not going to be uploading it to the database anyway since that would be potentially sticky from a copyright issue.
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#9 Post by emperor_andreas »

I'm waiting for someone to draw U.S.S. Excelsior.

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#10 Post by ALVAMA »

My scales:

SB: 1ft a 2px
IM: 10px a 1mtr
FD: 1mtr a 22.093px
AM: 1mtr a 44,186
UB: 100px a 1mtr
FR: 1.5cm a pixel
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