Ship scale?

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Ok, trying to work on ships, and I found some I like, but they seem too big when you actually get to "detail" view.

So   I tried redesigning them from the ground up and not sure if it's the parts or what but it still turned out way too large.

Is there a way to scale the ship?

Any why would mine be coming out so large?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ok, I did a simple test and added 4 parts and it still seems way out of proportion to other ships I download. This is built using Cargo hull, then small square (normal scale) and everything attached to it. As you can see from the screenshot below my "ship" is so much larger than terran scout.

I've uploaded the ship to Steam at the following link.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=746773580

 

Thanks for any help with this.

 

ship scale

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Believe I figured this out looking at Gauntlet's designs.

Gauntlet has what I want to call "spacers" which "stretch" out from his models.I put in 3 of these and it seems to scale the ship.

As you can see in the screenshot below I have the ship three times, #1 doesn't have any scaling, #2 has "spacers" and #3 has "spacers" but further extended. Also discovered you need to have the spacers "visible" as you can't hide them.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

New question - what is the best item for spacers - probably the smallest?