Author Topic: Aces High to scale? (Read 368 times)

Apache · « **on:** October 10, 2002, 02:14:01 PM »

May just be me but AH terrain doesn't seem to scale to me. What I mean is, our aircraft are bigger than everything else, i.e., trees and buildings.

I saw somewhere that HT stated the cities were going to get bigger. Wonder if that means taller as well? Just seems that it would be fun to fly over a city street chasing an La7 dodging buildings, without a frame rate hit of course, lol.

Urchin · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2002, 02:18:07 PM »

Yea, seems that way to me too.

Dowding · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2002, 02:21:14 PM »

I always thought the planes were scaled smaller to compensate for us seeing most of the cockpit in a small window.

jbroey3 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2002, 02:28:27 PM »

The planes are too big.. the Rocks are too big... The Trees are Too small.. and the buildings not as tall.

Wotan · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2002, 03:53:42 PM »

drive plane up to one of those tress or a hanger or even the sheep. or a gv

I am not saying its to 100% scale but planes arent bigger then the trees. The trees we have a of 3 types, they certainly arent 100ft red woods but they arent tiny.

Mitsu · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2002, 04:03:04 PM »

I think Bishop is always too big...

Superfly · « **Reply #6 on:** October 10, 2002, 04:24:50 PM »

Everything is to scale. Trees are around 40-60 feet tall. Maybe you just don't realize how big these planes really are. I always thought the p51d was fairly small until I saw it in person, however the b17 was a lot smaller in person than I thought it was.

Pongo · « **Reply #7 on:** October 10, 2002, 04:35:41 PM »

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Originally posted by SUPERFLY
Everything is to scale. Trees are around 40-60 feet tall. Maybe you just don't realize how big these planes really are. I always thought the p51d was fairly small until I saw it in person, however the b17 was a lot smaller in person than I thought it was.

exactly the same experiance. When I was in Sentimental Journey I was supprised how small it was. But we are used now to 737-777s so we dont have the supprise that the people at the time had.
rocks are tooooo big.

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #8 on:** October 10, 2002, 05:16:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
rocks are tooooo big.

Think of 'em as boulders then..
-SW

Shane · « **Reply #9 on:** October 10, 2002, 05:36:32 PM »

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Originally posted by AKSWulfe

Think of 'em as boulders then..
-SW

on the pizza map, i think of them as saugage.

Zigrat · « **Reply #10 on:** October 11, 2002, 02:28:02 PM »

i too think scale is messed up. In aces high buildings and such seem way too small (to me)

pictures like this look more to me like real life scaling, but it could be optical illusion...

Pongo · « **Reply #11 on:** October 11, 2002, 04:05:34 PM »

what a low down dirty trick zig...bad assassin.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #12 on:** October 11, 2002, 05:51:45 PM »

take away the building's detail, make em skinned-boxes and the scale seems similar to me.

(assassin bassige)

CavemanJ · « **Reply #13 on:** October 12, 2002, 02:16:12 AM »

Everything is built to scale.

Just there's a seperate scale for each catagorey.

Wanna see a real issue with scale? Try to line 3 F4U's up on the deck of a flattop (wings overlapped to emulate folded). Deck isn't wide enough. I think that's part of why some folks have problems getting fully loaded kites off the flattops, the decks aren't long enough for the scale of the plane.

Zigrat · « **Reply #14 on:** October 12, 2002, 09:06:50 AM »

some things really dont look to scale..

check out the church and the choco puffs in the attached file. the church looks like it is half as tall as the houses....