Talk:Scale

Meters?

Although the scaling works using the "Meters" option in 3dsmax, road should be about 2000 'meters' across, which doesn't make much sense. It's more like 2000 decimeters.
--Ultimate Chimera (Guil) 14:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't know anything about max, I copied that line about 3DSMax and meters from the other article. Are you saying that 1 decimeter in max equals 1 MKWii unit when exporting? If so, change it.--Jefe 14:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Units make no difference so as long as you are consistent with your selected unit all the way through the custom track creation process. In-game units are unit-less anyway. That being said, most tools will use SI units by default so it's usually good practice to just use meters. --Torran 14:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I was stating that it just doesn't make sense to have a road that's 2 kilometers wide. Using current units, the in-game bikes are massive since they're 100 meters long.
--Ultimate Chimera (Guil) 14:47, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Again, the real world units are not supposed to make sense; they exist only because certain tools can only consider the concept of units in such a fashion. --Torran 14:55, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

The MKWii Unit thing was already on the wiki before I started on CTs, I took it for granted that someone had determined the scale. The development team would have settled on some sort of scale during MKWii's development; that might as well be considered a MKWii Unit. Lots of game engines have that concept (Unreal Units, for example.) --Jefe 15:19, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, all Wii games use the same units, as does Gamecube games. It could be assumed they're "Dolphin Units", coming from the Gamecube's original name.
--Ultimate Chimera (Guil) 17:17, 7 March 2013 (UTC)