Torque world units vs physical units
by SPECS · in Torque Game Engine · 07/11/2008 (1:41 am) · 6 replies
Hello TRQ People
My project involves Torque interface to a a haptic device and I am having a problem - I couldn't find any information about i.e how many physical units (mm, cm) are mapped to how many world units which I very much need for creating a convinsing haptic experience .. Can somebody help me?
Thx in advance
Nina
My project involves Torque interface to a a haptic device and I am having a problem - I couldn't find any information about i.e how many physical units (mm, cm) are mapped to how many world units which I very much need for creating a convinsing haptic experience .. Can somebody help me?
Thx in advance
Nina
#2
//EDIT: Of course, going for a 1:1 ratio is usually the most sensible thing.
07/11/2008 (6:22 am)
This is more or less an arbitrary thing. The only thing that really matter is that you settle on one fixed meter/unit conversion ratio and then stick to it throughout.//EDIT: Of course, going for a 1:1 ratio is usually the most sensible thing.
#3
07/11/2008 (7:02 am)
Well if the world units are meters. then What are the tile scaling of terrain. If the standard is 8 what is that equal to, i have a map at 40. what would that be equal to? 
#4
07/11/2008 (7:13 am)
Those are also meters.
#5
07/11/2008 (7:15 am)
Your telling me that my tiled map = 8 is 8 meters across? not likely, how big is a tile relatively speaking. 
#6
07/11/2008 (7:46 am)
@Edward - A legacy terrain tile is 2x2 square km 
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