Question on size/scale

It_Is_Me · Postby **It_Is_Me** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:37 pm

Hello there.
I am curious as to how far 3km feels in MM2, or 1km (whichever is easier).
I would also be interested in knowing the probable size of San Francisco in game (in km preferably).
Does anyone know, or know of a way for working this out?
Thanks.

zoot · Postby **zoot** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:07 pm

I don't think so. You could compare the size of the city itself to the real one(road lengths), but it's not very accurate.

e-cobra · Postby **e-cobra** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:43 pm

A Ford Mustang Fastback is 4.66 m long, so if you were to make a track in which exactly 643.77 Mustang Fastbacks would fit from bumper to bumper, it would be 3 km long.

RohitXL5 · Postby **RohitXL5** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:40 am

I've worked on this months ago, but on miles. Unfortunately, it was hard for me to find entire area/size of SF. I could find little things.

After several experiments, I found that-
1 Mile (in game) = 385.71428571428571428571428571429 units (in game)
= 385.71 units
This is hard to explain how I found that. I used a map editor and several programs.

If you're interested, I've an image of almost 1 Km on map. This appears strange, but it is true because it was experimented by real life formulas.

BUGATTIMAN253MPH · Postby **BUGATTIMAN253MPH** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:18 am

A Ford Mustang Fastback is 4.66 m long, so if you were to make a track in which exactly 643.77 Mustang Fastbacks would fit from bumper to bumper, it would be 3 km long.

The last Fastback won't have a front.

It_Is_Me · Postby **It_Is_Me** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:09 pm

I've worked on this months ago, but on miles. Unfortunately, it was hard for me to find entire area/size of SF. I could find little things.

After several experiments, I found that-
1 Mile (in game) = 385.71428571428571428571428571429 units (in game)
= 385.71 units
This is hard to explain how I found that. I used a map editor and several programs.

If you're interested, I've an image of almost 1 Km on map. This appears strange, but it is true because it was experimented by real life formulas.

Great, thanks! So for clarification, A-B and C-D were ~1km? So it's probably safe to say that the main road area of the map (excluding Golden Gate Bridge) is about 2x4km?, so the full map extent could be as much as 10x10km?

If that is so, is it possible to double that without killing the game?

Thanks, and thanks to all the other replies!

A Ford Mustang Fastback is 4.66 m long, so if you were to make a track in which exactly 643.77 Mustang Fastbacks would fit from bumper to bumper, it would be 3 km long.

I kinda fancy trying this now

Diatosta · Postby **Diatosta** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:35 pm

*Ahem* And I am here now to present results. So using Rohit's road as scale, that road has 1,13 Km, or 0,7 Miles. Counted in Photoshop, the road has 113 Px (funny coincidence, but ok

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So, 100Px is 1 Km, or 0,62 Miles. Now, counting all the pixels at wide and height, we get this:

So, the main land area is 2,68Km/ 1,67 Miles by 2,79Km/ 1,73 Miles, or 7,48Km

It_Is_Me · Postby **It_Is_Me** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:27 pm

That's excellent! Thanks!

zoot · Postby **zoot** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:18 am

Great work guys.

RohitXL5 · Postby **RohitXL5** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:07 am

It's very great to observe that the pixels do have a relation with in-game kilometers. That's amazing Diatosta. I never thought about that.