[Shminkyboy]

IMO in Urban Terror I've found the best yardstick to use for scale is this:

Because of the fact that the player actually jumps higher than a human would if they were 64 units high, you kinda have to fudge the scale a bit in the z axis, but not enough to destroy the illusion of reality in the level.

For this reason, I would reccommend using a scale of 1:1 for x, 1:1 for y, and roughly 1.2:1 for z, assuming that one unit = one inch.

So if you have an 8x8x8 foot room (96x96x96 inches), in GTKRadiant you would make the room roughly 96x96x120 units

This worked pretty well for me, as it allows the player to not bump his head on the ceilings of indoor portions of the map, while still having outside areas be close enough to scale to seem right, espesially if you're planning on allowing people to have vertical access in the map, as going too far on the z scale adjustment will make the level overtall, and it won't feel right I think.

Something else to consider too, for the width of passages.. the player if i remember right is 32 units wide (someone correct me here, im going off memory) so any passage you make should be at least 72 units wide so you don't have err, blockages =)

[|NV|S (old)]

All this UNIT talk is great, but the absolute best way to gaurentee the best scale in 3rd person is to actually stick the actual playermodel in the editor. Now as for perspective in 1st person, because of where the camera is located in relation to the player, this will always seem as if the camera were attached to the top of the players head and not his eyeballs. Trust me when I say that people will forgive you (and when I say people I mean other Level designers) more if you are correctly scaled in 3rd person then in 1st person.

Here is the playermodel I use to scale my levels.....BATTER UP!!

[codey (old)]

LOL - ace |NV|S, simply ace!

[Shminkyboy]

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All this UNIT talk is great, but the absolute best way to gaurentee the best scale in 3rd person is to actually stick the actual playermodel in the editor. Now as for perspective in 1st person, because of where the camera is located in relation to the player, this will always seem as if the camera were attached to the top of the players head and not his eyeballs. Trust me when I say that people will forgive you (and when I say people I mean other Level designers) more if you are correctly scaled in 3rd person then in 1st person.

Here is the playermodel I use to scale my levels.....BATTER UP!!

Agreed. Kinda why I follow my little scale rules as a guide... It's still best to make sure it looks "right" too, regardles of your scale preference, as far as getting into the details... Watching someone bunny-hop over a " perfect 1:1 to scale" object like a car or a fence is pretty um, silly =)