How far is it?

[Xaeyr]

Has anyone been bored enough to figure out what the distance of the default 20x15 map size is equivalent to in feet? Both North the South and East to West?

 

[EternalShadow]

The default is actually 17x15, but I'd say a tile is about a metre. Tough one, though, since object sizes vary and the typical two-tile-high houses suggest in that instance, the houses are two meters high and a person is only a metre high.

Maybe that's why some people find chibis odd?

 

[Warpmind]

I'd say something to the tune of 60x45 feet - making the simple guesstimate of three feet to a tile. Increase by an appropriate number of magnitudes for the world map.

The default is actually 17x15, but I'd say a tile is about a metre. Tough one, though, since object sizes vary and the typical two-tile-high houses suggest in that instance, the houses are two meters high and a person is only a metre high.

Maybe that's why some people find chibis odd?

I think you forget we technically view things at an angle - you could probably easily add about 50% to the height estimates.

 

[Xaeyr]

17x15? Weird. When I start a new map it shows 20x15 as the size by default. Am I missing something?

 

[Warpmind]

17x15? Weird. When I start a new map it shows 20x15 as the size by default. Am I missing something?

Different defaults for different version makers - XP and VX Ace have different default map sizes, I believe.

 

[mlogan]

And technically Ace is 17 x 13. But yes, we are talking different makers here.

 

[Xaeyr]

Ah ok, I see. I guess I didn't specify RMXP lol.

 

[Xaeyr]

3 feet per tile seems like a pretty good guestimate.

 

[EternalShadow]

I think you forget we technically view things at an angle - you could probably easily add about 50% to the height estimates.

Oh yeah! So that does suggest about a metre per tile. Because with the angle, you'd be losing a little vertical height.

 

[Dragnfly]

I'm glad somebody brought this up because I was going to. I've just been generalizing everything but I have some "grand scale" moments which got me wondering how big a tile is. My tallest character just happened to be 224cm (yay for easy math by fluke) but is 64 pixels high in RM but that's only because, with a 640x480 screenspace I find using more than 2 tiles for height gives very little realestate to work with on screen.

 

[bgillisp]

I'm currently using 3 ft x 3 ft for inside maps (taverns, houses, etc), 6 ft x 6 ft for towns and dungeons, and 1 mile x 1 mile for the world map. That does mean though that one tile on the world map is about 880 tiles on a town map. Maybe it is a good thing I don't have them walk all of that!

 

[Dragnfly]

Or give everyone Chun Li legs from all that walking.

Maybe since my overworld maps for RM are still in their infancy I should consider using actual ratios like you did rather than just going with whatever looks good.