How big is a CSC ?

[digdug]

I was looking at the image of the dockscreen of the CSCs, and the CSC looks huge vs the ships docked on the bridge !
So i said to myself, how big would be ingame the CSC if the proportions were respected ? So i did a couple of calculations with the pixels and i came up with this :


http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9536 ... onsdk4.jpg

[Psycholis]

I made a comment about this in another thread. That's a pretty cool rendering you got going there to see the comparison. I'd like to see the Phobos too if there was a scale to go by.

[Stormhawk]

The CSC should be bigger in game, not quite that big, but close.

[Clear Air Turbulence]

The CSC should be bigger in game, not quite that big, but close.

Problem with that is that the scale is already pretty wacky when you consider each pixel (for travel and range purposes) is supposed to be something like 12,500 km. I understand that everything is depicted at larger than actual size for gameplay purposes (otherwise everything except some planets and stars would be single-pixel points), but having the CSC be any bigger would cause situations like one not being too big to hide behind a sun or catching all the friendly fire for combat within a light-minute around.

[digdug]

so, from what I can understand, there are 3 different scales in Transcendence:

-ship scale, all the ships are in the same scale besides very large ships that falls in the next category
-station scale, all the stations plus the CSC and the other large ships (Phobos, Iocrym)
-planet scale, planets and other space objects.


check here:
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/Downloads.html
you have the relative sizes of the Sapphire, Phobos and the stargate.

take a look at Prolog1.jpg in the Resources to see how big is a commonwealth Station vs ships or slums.

[Clear Air Turbulence]

so, from what I can understand, there are 3 different scales in Transcendence:

-ship scale, all the ships are in the same scale besides very large ships that falls in the next category
-station scale, all the stations plus the CSC and the other large ships (Phobos, Iocrym)
-planet scale, planets and other space objects.

You're leaving out the travel/range scale - the only thing depicted by this scale is the relative distance of objects. Even planets are shown larger than they would actually be on this scale (on this scale, an Earth-sized planet would be between 1 and 2 pixels across). I'm not sure if stars are supposed to be depicted on this scale or not - I'll have to take a look at them later.

I don't think all the space objects count on the planet scale. Asteroids are depicted on one of the ship or station scales, I think (they are much too big in comparison to planets). I don't know how big the warp gates are supposed to be IRL either.

[george moromisato]

Planets and stars use an inverse exponential scale:

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Object             Size (Km)  Image (pixels) Example
Ringed planet        300,000       512       Saturn
Large gas giant      150,000       430       Jupiter
Medium gas giant      50,000       330       Neptune
Large rocky planet    13,000       240       Earth
Medium rocky planet    7,000       200       Mars
Small rocky planet     5,000       180       Mercury
Large dwarf planet     3,500       170       Earth’s Moon
Medium dwarf planet    2,250       150       Pluto
Small dwarf planet     1,000       128       Ceres
Giant asteroid           500       105       Vesta
Large asteroid           250        90       Hyperion
Medium asteroid          100        64       Prometheus
Small asteroid            50        50       Eros
Tiny asteroid             10        32       Deimos

The formula is (roughly)

pixel size = ((km size)^(0.25)) * 22.25

[Hatsuya Kanzaki]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9536 ... onsdk4.jpg[/quote]

Not unless some anime fans inside that CSC watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann [the universe-sized mecha and the epic anime ever] for weeks, that's why they came up with a biggest CSC base ship ever!

[digdug]

wow! Thank you very much George!