How far is a grid box on OFP\'s in-game maps?

[theavonlady]

Looking at the island map PDF files on the CD, the grid squares there seems to be about 125 meters each, with 8 to a kilometer.

Is this also true for the grid squares in the mission editor's or mission map displays?

[Gorgi Knootewoot]

Wow, i didn,t know the island were on PDF format on the CD. As soon i get home i will look at them. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif That will be fridaynight...

Gorgi

[theavonlady]

All you had to do was search The FAQ (http://www.theavonlady.org/theofpfaq/) for "island maps". http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Erm..... now can someone answer my question?

(Edited by theavonlady at 11:43 am on Nov. 29, 2001)

[Pete]

Is this also true for the grid squares in the mission editor's or mission map displays?


cant be, since the grid gets tighter as you zoom in....

my quess would be that the largest grid in the map is 500 meters when zoomed out and when zoomed in its somewhere around 50 meters.

id also like to know the answer on this, we should need to be able to check the exact distance to places using the map..

[theavonlady]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Pete on 12:04 pm on Nov. 29, 2001

cant be, since the grid gets tighter as you zoom in....[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Not sure what youre referring to. When I zoom in on the map in a PDF file, 8 squares continue to equal 1000 meters on the scale at the bottom edge of the map.

[theavonlady]

Bingo! Each grid box is 125 square meters both on the ingame and PDF maps!

I tested this by creating a mission where I'm a tank gunner targetting a UAZ 4 grid boxes away. Distance shown was 506 meters.

[Pete]

hmmm...but in the game and/or the editor the grid size changes as you zoom in.....i think.

[theavonlady]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Pete on 12:28 pm on Nov. 29, 2001
hmmm...but in the game and/or the editor the grid size changes as you zoom in.....i think.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Well yes. As you zoom in, the grid lines extend accordingly. Still 125 meters between lines, though.

[Gaswell]

Pete is right; as you zoom in on the game's map (not the PDF) the grid's granularity changes as the lettering goes from A, B, C, etc. to Aa, Ab, Ac, etc.

What distance does a "large" grid square (say, from D5 to D6) represent, and what distance does the "smaller" grid squares (from Df56 to Dg56) represent?

[theavonlady]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Gaswell on 1:05 pm on Nov. 29, 2001
Pete is right; as you zoom in on the game's map (not the PDF) the grid's granularity changes as the lettering goes from A, B, C, etc. to Aa, Ab, Ac, etc.

What distance does a "large" grid square (say, from D5 to D6) represent, and what distance does the "smaller" grid squares (from Df56 to Dg56) represent?[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Now I get it. First of all, you have to zoom out - not in - to see only major grids (A, B, C..).

The answer is simple. Each major grid consists of 10 minor grids, from A to J. Each minor grid is 125 meters. So each major grid is 1.25 kilometers. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Suma]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The answer is simple. Each major grid consists of 10 minor grids, from A to J. Each minor grid is 125 meters. So each major grid is 1.25 kilometers. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

You are almost there. Map size is 12.8 km (256x50 m). Grid size is therefore 1.28 km (large grid) or 128 m (fine grid).

[theavonlady]

Nitpicker! http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Sergeant Rock]

Leave it to software developers and game designers to create a map whose logical units break down to a nice round # like 1.28 instead of 1.25! UGH! http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Sergeant Rock]

Leave it to software developers and game designers to create a map whose logical units break down to a nice round # like 1.28 instead of 1.25! UGH! http://www.flashpoint1985.com/ikonboard3/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[ScreamingWithNoSound]

Of course man... everything's in base 2... or 8 or 16... programmers can't understand anything else... cause they do nOT cOmPutE....

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