How many voxels are there in a 1x1 cell?

NucleiSplitter

Question in the title. I know I saw a thread about this here, but can't remember where. Asking so I can have a proper sense of scale.

Currently I'm working with a scale of 10.8 voxels:1 meter. If I can get a rough scale for cells in relation to voxels, I can resize shps accordingly or change the voxel:meter scale I work with.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Depends entirely how your transformation matrix (voxel header) is set up.
IIRC Voxel are often scaled with a factor of 0.7, to make them slightly overlap each other and thus minimize holes. But people also used many other factors, which makes them vary in size and number of voxels a lot.

A simple test would be creating a flat rectangle with alternating colors and set the scale factor to 1.0, then count the voxels ingame.

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G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

A cell is 45 dots long for an unshrunk voxel, that is if you make a 45x45 square it will touch every edge. A T-72 hull is about 7m, so using your 10.8 dots-per-meter, that's almost 1-3/4 cells long not even including the barrel.

I suggest you rethink your scale.

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NucleiSplitter · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:30 pm Post subject:

@LKO Scale factor is under Misc in VXLSE, yes? I wasn't aware of this until now. I wonder if this is the source of color bleed.

@G-E Thanks for this, and I will.

EDIT:
For those interested in making a "1:1 scale" mod, I got a scale of 24px:6ft or 13.12px:1m using the height of clnt.shp.

Virgil · Stealth Laser Trooper **Joined**: 22 Jul 2018

And anybody doing "real scale" has to face the fact that game only accept voxel within 255 in any direction, while your ships can be... you know. They will overlap like hell.