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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

SCHRifle wrote:

Smaller capital ships may be pilotable. The ISD will NOT be pilotable, It's just too massive. It's over 1600 meters long and the largest bf2 map is about 2048 meters or somewhere around there. There is just nowhere to go. To make up for this, the ISD will have a very large interior.

I want to say that most capital ships will be pilotable, and I want them to be as much as you, but until we test it I can't say anything. We have been testing a certain capital ship and so far the tests have been promising.

This problem came up in a mod for an older game, Freelancer. The team solved the problem by reducing everything by 4 times, making everything much bigger. The only problem was that distance numbers got messed up, but you got used to it.

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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

Okay, some how I doubt it could be this easy, none of the less, I better ask. Is it possible to simply make EVERYTHING really small, allowing the capital ships to be far smaller, so they can be pilotable, and not cause killer lag? I mean if everything where small, then you wouldn't know you where small, it would just seem normal. It would also have the by product of letting all the maps be way bigger. But theres no way that would work, is there? That would be way too simple...

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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

THat would be cool if they could do that but than the graphich would by all means be worse

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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

I'm not an artist yet, or game designer, but I would think smaller graphics would result in better peformance and possibly better detail because you have less of a space to fill?

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  • Registered: 2006-05-15
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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

Yes, you're right. As long as you adjust the camera angles on exterior views, then you won't know you're 1.5 feet tall instead of 6. Of course, all the distances will be 4 times too long...

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  • From: Boca Raton Florida, US
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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

y? The maps could be built to match size, tho im still skeptical whether it could really work...

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Re: Will any large ship be pilotable besides x wings and ties

In fact, if the distances are editable.. you got yourself a winner.

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