Post by paddy649 on Apr 21, 2019 9:09:43 GMT
I’m using the Bank Holiday to make some terrain and have hit a snag with the rules. I want to make huge hills - but how big can I go? (...and by big I mean long.)
Each area terrain feature must “fit into a rectangle of which the length plus the width totals no more than 9 BW”. Great! Figure 1b feature C. Great! So my hill can be 7 BW long by 2 BW wide........errrr! No!
Now measure the length (maximum dimension) of that hill and it is 7.3 BW long (corner to corner) and it’s width (perpendicular to) is 2.15 BW. So I have a totally legal hill whose length plus width totals 9.45 BW......so is it illegal or not?
Now look it’s actual length 7.3BW which exceeds twice it’s width of 4.3 BW so breaks the “The length exceeds twice it’s width” rule. Hence, Figure 1b feature C, which is supposed to illustrate the rules actually breaks them.
Undeterred I now look at Figure 1b feature A. Corner to corner length 6.5 BW and perpendicular width 4.1BW. (OK I do assume sharp edges here) Again totally legal and illegal at the same time but at least this one is meets the width rule.
Doing some maths it would appear that the biggest I can actually go and remain unambiguously legal is just over 6BW x just under 3BW And even then I have to take off any sharp corners to ensure that the corner to corner dimensions are reduced to keep within the width rule.
Am I correct in my thinking here?
Each area terrain feature must “fit into a rectangle of which the length plus the width totals no more than 9 BW”. Great! Figure 1b feature C. Great! So my hill can be 7 BW long by 2 BW wide........errrr! No!
Now measure the length (maximum dimension) of that hill and it is 7.3 BW long (corner to corner) and it’s width (perpendicular to) is 2.15 BW. So I have a totally legal hill whose length plus width totals 9.45 BW......so is it illegal or not?
Now look it’s actual length 7.3BW which exceeds twice it’s width of 4.3 BW so breaks the “The length exceeds twice it’s width” rule. Hence, Figure 1b feature C, which is supposed to illustrate the rules actually breaks them.
Undeterred I now look at Figure 1b feature A. Corner to corner length 6.5 BW and perpendicular width 4.1BW. (OK I do assume sharp edges here) Again totally legal and illegal at the same time but at least this one is meets the width rule.
Doing some maths it would appear that the biggest I can actually go and remain unambiguously legal is just over 6BW x just under 3BW And even then I have to take off any sharp corners to ensure that the corner to corner dimensions are reduced to keep within the width rule.
Am I correct in my thinking here?
