Quark to Torque Scale
by Infinitum3D · in Artist Corner · 06/14/2006 (10:08 pm) · 7 replies
What is the proper scale for models in Quark?
For example, is a basic cube one cubic meter, one yard, one foot, or what?
How long is one Quark unit in meters, centimeters, feet, inches or whatever?
Thanks!
Tony
For example, is a basic cube one cubic meter, one yard, one foot, or what?
How long is one Quark unit in meters, centimeters, feet, inches or whatever?
Thanks!
Tony
#2
It's close enough either way. Thanks!!!
08/30/2006 (7:10 am)
It might be, but what I'm finding is that it's closer to one Quark Unit equalling One Inch, or 32Quark Units is just under one meter.It's close enough either way. Thanks!!!
#3
huge! Kork stands 80 QuArK units tall and 64 QuArK units wide.
That's the equivalent of 2.5 meters tall, about 10 feet tall, and 2 meters wide, over six feet across the
shoulders. Now that may be perfectly accurate for an Orc, however, our Elf Girl is also 80 QuArK units
tall. Granted, she is only 32 QuArK units wide, but come on. A ten foot tall Elf Girl thats over three feet
across the shoulders. Maybe an Amazon, but not a typical Elf as far as I'm concerned.
I think a better reference would be to make a standard Torque meter equal to 64 QuArK units. Now
Kork is only about 5 feet tall, and 3 feet wide. Elf girl is 5 feet tall and 18 inches across the shoulders.
That seems a little more reasonable/accurate to me.
OR, one QuArK unit is equal to one inch. Then Kork is 6 feet 8 inches tall, and 5 feet 4 inches across the
shoulders. Equal to one very large professional football player in full pads.
Regardless, here's how it works. If Kork is 80 QU tall, then doorways should be at least 81 QU high.
Better yet, make the doorways 84 or even 88 high. Kork is 64 wide, therefore doorways should be at
least 65 wide and preferably 68-72 wide.
I'll make mine 88 high and 72 wide from now on.
...
88 x 72 is still too small. Kork's bounding box must be about 80 x 80 because he can't move through a doorway that's 88 x 72, even though it looks like he can. Doorways should be at least 82 x 82, and IMHO they should be 88 x 88.
BTW: Here's a screenshot of Kork in front of a measuring wall. The numbers are in Quark Units.
Tony
04/06/2007 (3:58 am)
OK, people have said that one Torque meter is about equal to 32 QuArK units. If that's true, then Kork is huge! Kork stands 80 QuArK units tall and 64 QuArK units wide.
That's the equivalent of 2.5 meters tall, about 10 feet tall, and 2 meters wide, over six feet across the
shoulders. Now that may be perfectly accurate for an Orc, however, our Elf Girl is also 80 QuArK units
tall. Granted, she is only 32 QuArK units wide, but come on. A ten foot tall Elf Girl thats over three feet
across the shoulders. Maybe an Amazon, but not a typical Elf as far as I'm concerned.
I think a better reference would be to make a standard Torque meter equal to 64 QuArK units. Now
Kork is only about 5 feet tall, and 3 feet wide. Elf girl is 5 feet tall and 18 inches across the shoulders.
That seems a little more reasonable/accurate to me.
OR, one QuArK unit is equal to one inch. Then Kork is 6 feet 8 inches tall, and 5 feet 4 inches across the
shoulders. Equal to one very large professional football player in full pads.
Regardless, here's how it works. If Kork is 80 QU tall, then doorways should be at least 81 QU high.
Better yet, make the doorways 84 or even 88 high. Kork is 64 wide, therefore doorways should be at
least 65 wide and preferably 68-72 wide.
I'll make mine 88 high and 72 wide from now on.
...
88 x 72 is still too small. Kork's bounding box must be about 80 x 80 because he can't move through a doorway that's 88 x 72, even though it looks like he can. Doorways should be at least 82 x 82, and IMHO they should be 88 x 88.
BTW: Here's a screenshot of Kork in front of a measuring wall. The numbers are in Quark Units.
Tony
#4
The blue guy is another issue though, from memory he's slightly taller than kork!
04/07/2007 (3:43 pm)
I've made this mistake. I created my buildings based on kork, when the modern soldier guy was put in the building he was the size of a six year old child. Then I realised - they are both scaled correctly. Kork is an Orc - they tend to be rather large (2.5m) infact. The blue guy is another issue though, from memory he's slightly taller than kork!
#5
I need to get the soldier kit :)
Thanks Chris!
Tony
05/16/2007 (6:22 pm)
Kork being huge makes sense, but the Elf girl is the same height, just thinner... A ten foot tall elf or Amazon maybe?I need to get the soldier kit :)
Thanks Chris!
Tony
#6
05/16/2007 (6:39 pm)
Yeah.. Kork is Massive! .. 
#7
When I work in Quark, I set grid size to 32, create a cube at this scale and start building from there, knowing a tight hallway is 2 blocks of 32 high (or around 2 m)
05/16/2007 (6:47 pm)
Kork is around 2.5m tall. If you export anything, having modelled it in real world scale, multiply it by 1.5 to suit Kork scale. Quark unit system is 32units = 1m in real world scale.When I work in Quark, I set grid size to 32, create a cube at this scale and start building from there, knowing a tight hallway is 2 blocks of 32 high (or around 2 m)
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