Scale in Kilometres (open ttd)

[Amandom]

Personally, I'd like something as simple as diagonal roads. I'm not too concerned about proportion - maybe someone out there is working on something like that from scratch?

[Kogut]

Personally, I'd like something as simple as diagonal roads. I'm not too concerned about proportion - maybe someone out there is working on something like that from scratch?

Diagonal road are not simple - try to prepare method of construction, even it is complicated.

[Amandom]

Personally, I'd like something as simple as diagonal roads. I'm not too concerned about proportion - maybe someone out there is working on something like that from scratch?

Diagonal road are not simple - try to prepare method of construction, even it is complicated.

Oh, I just figured diagonal tracks - roads, no difference

[csuke]

If i can add my 2p, just to be a pain

instead of looking at the theory of everything has a different scale, why not play the game and see where length is mentioned in metres/kilometres, in order to try and help the OP out with a usable answer?

The only visible distance i can see in game is the height of a tile, which is 25m. now i think it would be fair to answer the OP by letting them know, based on the tile size, how wide a tile is?

on a very rough guess a tile is 100-150m wide, if someone has the exact math i think it would be helpful



on a side note it would probably be helpful to either do the dragging tool tips in tiles, or metres, not a combination as presently.

[ChillCore]

The only visible distance i can see in game is the height of a tile, which is 25m.

That would be 50 metres to be correct.
For a while the scale in the smallmap height legend displayed this incorrectly as 25m but this has been corrected. Can not remember in what revision exactly for the moment.

[Alberth]

r19767

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-Fix [FS#3808]: Height in smallmap was different from measured heights (ChillCore).

[ChillCore]

^^ That's the one.

That reminds me ...
I still have not experimented with making the number of height legend entries configurable by the user.

[csuke]

the tooltip for drag and drop construction still says it's 25m

[Rubidium]

the tooltip for drag and drop construction still says it's 25m

Then you're likely not using trunk with a revision higher or equal to the before mentioned revision but e.g. 1.0.5, which doesn't contain that trunk revision.

[audigex]

I like to assume that the buildings are to scale, while the distances between towns/vehicle sizes/speeds are arbitrary.

It makes more sense in my head that way, anyway.

[Elukka]

In all likelihood the scale of the game was just winged. If it looks good, plays good, then that's the way it is. I doubt the developers ever seriously considered the interplay between the various scales, or how large a tile is.

[dihedral]

if you want scale, have a look at flightgear, that's got a scale copy of the world (to a certain degree) - i.e. flying from Frankfurt to London Heathrow really takes about one hour;-)