Floor plans and measurement.

[Sensei]

I have looked everywhere for information about measuring distance in the game. obviously the best would be the introduction of actual floor plans with measurements. The wiki does have floor plans posted, but with no measurements. Therefore yesterday I did some calculating based off a 3 meter unit against an outer wall of the grey blocks.

So, 1 grey block is 0.5 meters long. 1 placeable wall is 0.25m x 0.25m. Using the wall placing tool it is therefore possible to measure distances, although why an actual tool for this isn't in a game about building and architecture is beyond me.

I hope this helps, especially when you buy the large unfinished house with basically nothing but the exterior walls to start with!

If I have actually missed a good resource that would help with layout planning, creating new room layouts etc, please let me know.

[thelogicalghost]

I would spend SO much more time playing this game if there was some kind of in-game measuring tool.

Thank you so much for the math!

[dark_haunt]

There's a bit more information on measurements over in the Workshop area of the discussions. Creators always need to know such things so there are a few threads scattered through.

There are also horizontal and vertical rulers available as items in the Workshop itself (they should come up if you search for 'rulers').

Roughly:
Floor to ceiling inside is 2.75m.
As you said, each wall panel is 25cm (.25m) x 2.75m tall.
A square metre in the game is therefore 4x4, so 16 floor panels.
Doors are 2m tall (some are 2.75m in the new DLC) and either .75m (3 panels), 1m (the standard 4 panels), 2m (8 panel garage, double or sliding doors) or the new DLC has some 3m (12 panel) wide too.

If you need a particular sized room, the easiest way is to take the number of square meters you want and multiply it by 16, then lay a flooring down over the required number of tiles in the configuration you want.

Oh, also, each increment of movement when placing items is equal to 5cm. So there are 5 increments across one panel and that makes it impossible to centre some items on a panel as the centre point will be at the 15cm mark when the middle of a panel is 12.5cm instead. Some of the workshop items (mostly tiles and sliders) make allowances for that.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Sensei:

I have looked everywhere for information about measuring distance in the game. obviously the best would be the introduction of actual floor plans with measurements. The wiki does have floor plans posted, but with no measurements. Therefore yesterday I did some calculating based off a 3 meter unit against an outer wall of the grey blocks.

So, 1 grey block is 0.5 meters long. 1 placeable wall is 0.25m x 0.25m. Using the wall placing tool it is therefore possible to measure distances, although why an actual tool for this isn't in a game about building and architecture is beyond me.

I hope this helps, especially when you buy the large unfinished house with basically nothing but the exterior walls to start with!

If I have actually missed a good resource that would help with layout planning, creating new room layouts etc, please let me know.

I wish you had did the math's for the rooms as who ever did them cannot count, example -
40 white wall panels 10 blue panel and the walls is half done and that is a job for a customer hahhaha makes me laugh

[Sensei]

Originally posted by dark_haunt:

There's a bit more information on measurements over in the Workshop area of the discussions. Creators always need to know such things so there are a few threads scattered through.

There are also horizontal and vertical rulers available as items in the Workshop itself (they should come up if you search for 'rulers').

Roughly:
Floor to ceiling inside is 2.75m.
As you said, each wall panel is 25cm (.25m) x 2.75m tall.
A square metre in the game is therefore 4x4, so 16 floor panels.
Doors are 2m tall (some are 2.75m in the new DLC) and either .75m (3 panels), 1m (the standard 4 panels), 2m (8 panel garage, double or sliding doors) or the new DLC has some 3m (12 panel) wide too.

If you need a particular sized room, the easiest way is to take the number of square meters you want and multiply it by 16, then lay a flooring down over the required number of tiles in the configuration you want.

Oh, also, each increment of movement when placing items is equal to 5cm. So there are 5 increments across one panel and that makes it impossible to centre some items on a panel as the centre point will be at the 15cm mark when the middle of a panel is 12.5cm instead. Some of the workshop items (mostly tiles and sliders) make allowances for that.

Thank you for that, it's most helpful information.

[Nite69]

use different colored floor tiles to the existing floor and you can use that to layout a floor plan, and then build the walls over it, its what I do

[VooDoo]

Adding a measuring tape or some sort of toop in the tool wheel, which tnen adds a temporary marker at the final measure points, would be nice though. placing wall decoration on the same hight or the same distance apart would be so much easier.