Blocks sizes

[Sellarise]

Can someone tell me what the real size of the small and large blocks in Space Engineers are? Is the large grid block not 2x2x2 meters?

[Ronin Planetary Industries]

Large grid block is 2.5 x 2.5 x 25 meters.
Small grid block is 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 meters
Granted, the scaling of the engineer would be a person almost 2 meters tall.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Ronin Planetary Industries (RPI):

Granted, the scaling of the engineer would be a person almost 2 meters tall.

LOL yeah the scaling seems off. But is it really? The engineer fits under a single large block easily. They're somewhere under 6 feet (1.8 m) tall since a 2.5m block is over 8 feet and the engineer fits under it with plenty of space above their head. If there wasn't plenty of space there we'd have to duck to go through some of the doors.

I'm curious to see someone the scale standing next to a block and in a doorway now.

[Jeff]

The small grid doors are 5 small grid blocks tall so 2.5 m. You can put a row of small grid blocks along the top of it without blocking the door so the door itself is just under 2 m in height. The engineer can walk through that door without problem so I'm pretty sure the scaling is correct.

Getting a feel for the scale of things in the game can be difficult on a 2D screen but is much easier to feel when you play in 3D on a VR headset using something like VorpX. If the controls were better I'd probably do that more but I'm hoping someone will come up with a decent VR mod at some point so I can play in VR regularly.

[Jack Schitt]

Have you seen and tried this, Jeff?:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1142180/SE_VR_World_Demo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhu4nEzTDQ

[Jeff]

Yes, I've downloaded it and tried it. I actually found it worse than using VorpX on the actual Space Engineers game. It is only a demo that is based on Space Engineers (basically just using models from the game) and the graphics are a bit glitchy. It was interesting, though, and was one of the first things I did when I got my Valve Index.

[Pembroke]

The engineer is wearing thick boots and a helmet so 6 feet / 1.80 meters would actually fit that quite well.

Though, what material are the cargo containers made of? Their walls must be paper thin for the available cargo space to fit inside them...

Small grid:
- 1x1x1 = 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.125 m3 = 125 L
- 3x3x3 = 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 = 3.375 m3 = 3375 L
- 5x5x5 = 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 = 15.625 m3 = 15625 L
Large grid:
- 1x1x1 = 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 = 15.625 m3 = 15625 L
- 3x3x3 = 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 = 421.875 m3 = 421875 L

The inside volume (cargo space) is the same as the volume calculated by the outside measurements so the walls appear to have zero thickness. That's some heavy sci-fi there.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Pembroke:

Though, what material are the cargo containers made of? Their walls must be paper thin for the available cargo space to fit inside them...

...the walls appear to have zero thickness. That's some heavy sci-fi there.

Yes it is some sci-fi! I've looked at the cargo container models in Blender. The walls and thickness of most of the parts the model for them are made of is extremely thin.

[BIV]

So Sell, I hope your curiosity has been quelled because any second now there will be a big 'discussion' on why the answer was in metric and not Imperial (or freedom units now).
I wonder, how many freedom fries could a freedom fighter oops insurgent fit into a freedom cup in the land of the free even though it has the largest number of citizens in prison?

Now run Sell, run for your sanity.

[Rox]

The measurement is not set. There is no size but what we make for ourselves.