Mcgral18, on 16 April 2015 - 12:02 PM, said:
That's PGI working with the assumption that the entire human should fit inside the window, rather than the window + the space around it.
Grasshoppers are meant to be tall but they're supposed to be pretty thin, too. That part didn't happen, the damn thing is almost as tall as the Banshee.
They put the Jenner at about 10 meters at the fin. Seems about right and where it would be even without the pelvis if the legs were attached to the sides like its supposed to be. They're even depicted as bigger than that on occasion but not by much.
The Catapult, it's clear Alex was scaling it for about 8 to 10 meters, because a Catapult without the pelvis akin to the original squat design is roughly that. The stilted version quite a bit taller.
Regular.
Regular. - Fanart, but in comparison.
Regular, I don't know if this is fanart or not.
Stilted.
Stilted -- and is that a Zaku (from gundam series) underneath it?
Stilted.
Comparison to other mechs.
Orion, 1987
Shadowhawk, 1987
Wolverine, 1987
This seems more orthogonal than perspective.
And comparison to real size. The wheel is 9 meters tall.
This tank is supposed to be 10.2 meters (33 ft. 6 in.) long.
Catapult between 8 and 10 meters seems about right considering the proportions. But PGI said they wanted it to be 15 meters, and to adjust the scale on its parts. (The long body and other features are where its weight went as opposed to being vertically tall, but PGI failed to see this at the time.)
I wonder if perhaps the Grasshopper might have been an attempt to fix that?
Whatever the case thank god they go with the assumption the pilot has to fit in the cockpit window with the Mist Lynx since they absolutely refuse to fix the convergence and high alphas... but then again, this is a bit ridiculous.
There was a reason Lynx is scaled as rather large in BT. >.>
But that also gives a good reason as to why pilots were centered in the heads of Commandos.
The Commando is, measured in 3DSMax, 9.7 meters tall.
The established BT scale of the first Omnimechs. Note anything with Endo Steel is larger than those without, as Endo Steel increases the size of the machine (as does ferro, any mech without is a fair bit 'thinner' and 'smaller' even if it has more armor than something nearby).
Edited by Koniving, 16 April 2015 - 01:26 PM.