Ships & Modules

Show the image of the ship in game, display shows the length of ship. Rotate to top down image and measure ship from front to back. This (length displayed by client/length you measured) is your scale. Now apply that scale to the other dimensions you require.

Not entirely what you asked for, but a simple enough way of doing it for yourself.

Scorpion (same hull as the Rattlesnake and Widow too) is 726m long.

As seen in this image:

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5695/eveshipssubcaptyrannis.jpg

Extrapolating from that, I loaded some screenshots into a graphics program and measured them.

I measured my Scorpion model at: 127.71mm long, 102.66mm wide and 56.8mm tall.

Apply some maths...

726 / 127.71 = 5.684754521963824 let's call it 5.685

102.66 * 5.685 = 583.622
56.8 * 5.685 = 322.908

So, from that, I reckon that a Rattlesnake is:

726m long
584m wide
323m tall

All points are measured 'square' from furthest points on the model.


However, in game file says the Scorpion is 828m long axis. Now, I believe this is consistent with a measure of the maximum length of the Scorpion (drawing the longest straight line between two points as possible, so kind of at a 30 degree angle if you looked at it side on) which would be correct for a 726m 'length'

You could see if CCP BunnyVirus, CCP BlueScreen, CCP Lion or CCP Solomon in the art department have exact figures? Maybe the concept art for the model includes a technical drawing style mockup.

Still, applying the same maths, this would make a Rattlesnake:

828 / 127.71 = 6.483

828m long
665m wide
368m tall

Without knowing for sure how they measured it to come up with 828m in game, I'm sorry, but I don't know which measurement to give you. They should still be the same scale though, so you could maybe make something up in the larger scale and then reduce it (scale it down by a ratio of 1.14) if the 726m is correct.

Received with thanks. If a CCP person shows me to be way off, I'll send it back :)

looking at the model from above, 828 is from tip of tail aerials to tip of claw aerials, 665 is across from edge of 'pincer' left to right and 368 is from a side-on measure from top of tail to underneath of pincer.

Do the actual measurements in meters matter? What's it for? For some applications, I can imagine only the proportions would matter rather than the exact size. There's a few 3D printing projects I came across that produced Scorpions from extracted files rendered in a professional modelling program.

Just for reference, the sizes in game aren't the size of the ship, they're the size of the ball around the model used to calculate its behavior in Destiny (our physics engine).

I don't think so, sometimes a ship wit extremities that stick out clip through things if you get too close, If I were to take a guess the ball is smaller than the distance between the furthest vertices apart.