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What 'scale' is tpt?

  • Linkram     28th Jan 2022 Member 1 Permalink

    This is not a request for higher resolution.

     

     

    Some saves are very tiny, like an amoeba, but others are literally universes. So what does the community think the scale was intended to be? My opinion is the screen takes up a city's worth of space.

  • jacob1     28th Jan 2022 Developer 1 Permalink
    The scale is whatever the save author says it is. Some things are at huge scales, many saves don't have any defined scale at all.

    In the past people have tried to say the speed of PHOT is the speed of light, but that makes the scale ridiculous, and also tons of elements move faster than "light".


    My personal opinion on the default scale would be that it's the size of a small table / workspace. And in that workspace elements are created that react with each other. So that means each particle would actually represent a group of particles (each DUST isn't a single speck of DUST) but the overall size is reasonable, nowhere near city-sized.

    But of course, it's all up to the creator what the scale of tpt is.
    Edited once by jacob1. Last: 28th Jan 2022
  • ArolaunTech     2nd Feb 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    If speed of PHOT is speed of light then...

     

    PHOT speed = 3px/frame = 180 px/sec = 299792458 m/s

     

    so 180 px = 299792458m or 1px is roughly 1666 km.

     

    The scale is better suited for things like moon systems.

    Edited once by ArolaunTech. Last: 2nd Feb 2022
  • Darkwrist     2nd Feb 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    I glued my scale on monitor and tried to meazure it, it says 156cm, so I guess tpt is scaled as sm (senti meter)

  • SchwarzerWal     7th Feb 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    Curious question. I thinked the same question before lol

  • Mangosss     13th Feb 2022 Member 0 Permalink
    This post has been removed by jacob1: incorrect, it's 235008 pixels, 612x384
  • thecomputerguy     14th Feb 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    @lincolnram (View Post)

     The scale is as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

    Edited once by thecomputerguy. Last: 14th Feb 2022
  • Teneiger10     24th Feb 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    @Mangosss

     

    Hmm, now I can finally know what to scale when making Maps.

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