Using real life floor plans with BuidlingEd, best estimate of one tile's size?

[Jatta Pake]

I was wondering if anyone has developed any rough guidelines for modeling real life buildings, like how many tiles wide and long an existing structure would be given a set of measurements?

 

For example, the US White House is is 85 feet 6 inches (26.1 meters) wide without porticoes; 152 feet wide with porticoes and 168 feet (51.2 meters) long.  Any ideas on how to convert this to tile length and width?

 

I'm not planning on modding a White House but I'm curious about creating some buildings based upon existing structures designs.  I'm just using the White House as an example for my question*.

 

 

 

 

^{_{* Although it would be cool to play a zombie invasion of the White House.}}

[lemmy101]

The area you'll have difficulty is having to constrain to a grid of squares instead of having arbitrary lengths / non 90 degree angles. That said a lot of buildings may conform to these kinda limitations. Not sure the Oval Office would though.

[EnigmaGrey]

I figure a good estimate is around a meter, but somewhere around ~2.5ft is probably closer.

Guessing, what fun.

[LeoIvanov]

I figured that 1 square can fit exactly 1 person. As if 1 square = 1 footstep forward. I measured my apartment building just like that

[Suomiboi]

I'm using a base map copied from Google maps which I resized so that most 2-way roads are 6 pixels wide, as in the game already. Then I just make the buildings match to about the same size as in the base map.

They're a bit smaller in the game than in real size imo but it fits the game perfectly, I think, as the rooms become pretty snug and I don't get too much empty space, which I think is a bigger job to fill while trying to look realistic.

[mendonca]

Single doors are about 900mm in real life, so I would say anywhere between 1m to 1.2m is about right.

 

Definitely just work on what feels right, though.

[Jatta Pake]

Great comments. Thanks all!