Scale Megathread

Wondering the same thing, anyone?

Whoa. Necromancy to the max.
Also, is anyone working on a server mod that decreases the scale? It's gotta happen!

Couldn't resist, it had to be done!

From what I understand the models can't be scaled easily, a variable in json files would be ideal but that's not implemented afaik. So a server scale mod would have to scale all the models using 3d modelling tools, and I think there's issues with editing models with multiple and/or rotated bones (in blender at least, squishypon and knight might know what they're talking about but not me ).

Nope, don't ask me, I'm just the Art guys, try talking to Liquis but I think even now our process is still pretty hack-ish.

Mike

Your process is needlessly hackish but if you were working on bots it would work.
Ours isn't remotely hackish.

What exactly do they do?

They make the model in maya, export it as fbx, import it as a papa, and then do stuff in blender before exporting it to I think papa using Raevn's exporter.

I think...

What do they need to do in Blender after Maya? It can't be the model, because if its a bot it wont export properly. Texturing maybe?

Well, at this point, the rescaling thing should really be addressed before development moves much further, as the content that is created before it happens will add to the workload to the actual conversion. While Vanilla PA may not need that much planetary acreage to make a game work, I would like the engine itself to be capable of supporting massive (acreage wise) planets for mods.

The answer to that is bones. When going from fbx to papa the bones mess up. So I import the models to blender to sort out bones.

Drat. So there's still no solution to making models with rotations in their bones.

WHOOOOOO dareth awaken thine slumber? .

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR

This is an interesting thread to necro, as there are at least a few of us who would like the scale to be decreased. It would likely help with RAM issues, since a smaller radius would feel larger.

Buuut, I'm not sure if this is even up for debate anymore

it was settled positively, the devs said yes, that's why we stopped posting.

Winner of the best necro image of the day!

This whole thread wouldn't be needed if they just made huge planets stable.

Just to clarify, we don't use Maya and never have.