| 00:44.50 | ZorbaTHut | actually most modern games do, in fact, have a fixed scale |
| 00:44.56 | ZorbaTHut | in Rift, one unit is one meter |
| 00:45.33 | Imhothar1 | wait whaaaaa? not a foot or yard or metric mile? |
| 00:45.59 | ZorbaTHut | no, thankfully |
| 00:46.33 | ZorbaTHut | and thank god we're not using the Source engine, which is still using a one-sixteenth-of-a-foot scale |
| 00:46.56 | ZorbaTHut | (but only for world geometry; human models are one-inch scale) |
| 00:47.15 | Imhothar1 | I remember the first unreal engine had 96 units tall = 1 human |
| 00:47.43 | ZorbaTHut | yeah, bad times back then. |
| 00:48.54 | Imhothar1 | I remember someone on the EVE forums once complaining you can't switch the game to imperial units |
| 00:49.13 | Imhothar1 | my response: the last time someone used the imperial system in space a mars orbiter crashed |
| 00:50.11 | Imhothar1 | the following shitstorm was hilarious |
| 00:50.47 | Noshei | ZorbaTHut: but what is a meter in a video game? In the physical world is it based off of the speed of light, but I dont see how it could be based off the speed of light in a game. |
| 00:51.19 | Imhothar1 | actually, in the real world a meter is a ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the poles ;) |
| 00:51.34 | Imhothar1 | the entire speed of light thing came afterwards |
| 00:51.39 | Noshei | originally |
| 00:51.45 | Noshei | yeah |
| 00:51.47 | ZorbaTHut | noshei, it's a unit of length such that physical objects in-game have roughly the same length, in "meters", that they do in the real world |
| 00:51.59 | Imhothar1 | still pretty arbitrary |
| 00:52.08 | Ivnedar | metres damnit :P |
| 00:52.54 | Noshei | also, scale in a video game depends heavily on how it is displayed |
| 00:53.10 | Imhothar1 | proportions are the key |
| 00:53.34 | Imhothar1 | if the proportions are right it doesn't matter whether 1 unit = 1 metER or 1 nautical mile |
| 00:53.54 | Noshei | and that is the key, a video game can't be scaled based on the real world, but it can have similar proportions |
| 00:54.46 | Imhothar1 | so you're really only upset about the 1:1 thing? |
| 00:55.13 | Noshei | yeah, like i siad it is a bad example of sensationalism |
| 00:55.51 | Imhothar1 | you still need something to relate to |
| 00:56.14 | Imhothar1 | just because it's virtual doesn't mean you can't put the dimensions in perspective |
| 00:58.26 | Imhothar1 | btw Ivnedar it's meter in German so I have an excuse for the spelling ;) |
| 00:58.35 | Ivnedar | facepalms |
| 00:59.08 | Imhothar1 | but guess what, in Czech it's just metr |
| 00:59.52 | Noshei | i spell it meter because spelling it metre doesn't even make sense within the english language |
| 01:00.39 | Imhothar1 | well considering british english is established for longer than american english I'd say metre, centre, etc do make a lot of sense |
| 01:01.31 | Imhothar1 | and before I forget: curse the French |
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