How are feet interpretted in NWN?

Pettsson · Post by **Pettsson** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 2:12 pm

And how far you zoomed in... But I'd guess that one foot is about 17 q.
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You did understand that did you not?

lord_modred · Post by **lord_modred** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 3:35 pm

the metric system is from the devil!

my target is forty rods from the hog's head, and thats the way i likes it!

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 3:37 pm

The metric system is better. It isn't completely arbitrary like the english system hehe

Pettsson · Post by **Pettsson** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 4:20 pm

Just a bit difficult to remember the definitions... 1 meter is, what, 1/299,792,458 of what light travels in 1 second. Which in turn is defined as 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation Cesium 133 sends out... Piece of cake huh?

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Okay, so the definitions ARE arbitrary. It's just that the units mesh better and it's easier to remember that everything is done with decimals and no worries about one having 12ths and another having 16ths...

Joran · Post by **Joran** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 4:42 pm

Yeah, but it's easier to use the American system because you can count using your fingers and toes. Everyone has 12 fingers and 16 toes right, or is that just me?

Billiard · Post by **Billiard** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:28 pm

JoeFaust wrote:
Billiard wrote:it would be good to know how much screen distance equals 40 feet - anyway to easily figure that?
Screen distance would change based on the resolution you run the game at, and how large your monitor is.

--JoeFaust

True - but we could still get a rough estimate for a given resolution.

Nameless_1 · Post by **Nameless_1** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:19 pm

DrakhanValane wrote:Actually the Brits use the "english" system if I'm not mistaken. The rest of Europe is pretty hardcore Metric though.

The rest of the World uses Metric, cept for Americans, I think the Brits are trying to change or already did change not sure, any Brits out there?

Nala · Post by **Nala** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:24 pm

orc and halfings acn't walk the saem...so feet should be different for them..hehehe

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:04 pm

And the resolution doesn't change how far a screen's distance is. It only affects how grainy/sharp it is and how many windows (inventory, char sheet, etc.) you can have open at once (I can fit 3) and of course text size. :)

Post by **Lokey** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:19 pm

Actually, resolution does change with distance...it swaps more detailed textures on as you get closer to something.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but England is metric except when ordering beer.

bongoblue · Post by **bongoblue** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:28 pm

The easiest measuring system, English or Metric, is the one you are used to using. I say English, because I presumes many don't know the English invented it, not the Americans.

Some Americans do want to change to metric, but small groups go hyperspace if something they think is traditional might get changed.

Whats bizzare is both systems are very new in comparision to the length of written human history. So neither are actually traditional.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:18 pm

What I mean, Lokey, is that if you play at 1600x1200, the distance (in game) at any given zoom level is the same as if you play at 800x600.

Pettsson · Post by **Pettsson** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:36 am

Lokey wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but England is metric except when ordering beer.

[Correcting]The mile is still going strong...[/Correction]

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:40 am

DrakhanValane wrote:The metric system is better. It isn't completely arbitrary like the english system hehe

for some reason americans liek being arbitrary...

eh.. i may be bitign my own tongue when i say this but...

kill a 1/2ling... he's on the floor now.. that's how big a meter it... now divide that in 3 (no DV u dont need to use your ginsu) that's how big a foot is... one of the thirds that is