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Planets & Asteroids
Stations & Structures
Ships
Notes

This article describes how to calculate the size of artwork from the physical size of objects in the game.

Planets & Asteroids

This scale is generally used for large-scale objects (larger than 10 kilometers) that the player does not generally dock with (i.e., is generally not on the same plane).

The size of a image representing a planet or asteroid is equal to:

Size(pixels) = 22 * Size(km)^(0.25)

Object	Size (Km)	Image Size (Pixels)	Notes
Ringed planet	300,000	512 × 256	About the size of Saturn, including ring diameter.
gas giant	150,000	430 × 430	About the size of Jupiter.
ice giant	50,000	330 × 330	About the size of Neptune.
Large rocky planet	13,000	240 × 240	About the size of Earth.
Medium rocky planet	7,000	200 × 200	About the size of Mars.
Small rocky planet	5,000	180 × 180	About the size of Mercury.
Large planetoid	3,500	170 × 170	About the size of Earth’s Moon.
Medium planetoid	2,250	150 × 150	About the size of Pluto.
Small planetoid	1,000	128 × 128	About the size of Ceres; smallest spherical object.
Giant asteroid	500	105 × 105	About the size of Vesta.
Large asteroid	250	90 × 90	About the size of Hyperion.
Medium asteroid	100	64 × 64	About the size of Prometheus.
Small asteroid	50	50 × 50	About the size of Eros.
Tiny asteroid	10	32 × 32	About the size of Deimos.

Stations & Structures

This scale should be used for stations and other immobile structures that the player docks with.

The size of a image representing a station is equal to:

Size(pixels) = 250 * Size(km)^(0.5)

Object	Size (Km)	Image Size (Pixels)	Notes
Artificial moon	100	2,500	About the size of the Death Star.
Massive arcology	50	1,750
Large arcology	25	1,250
Medium arcology	10	800	About the size of the Arcology of New Victoria (the largest human-built artifact).
Small arcology	5	560
Massive station	2.5	400
Large station	1	250	About the size of Starton Eridani.
Medium station	0.5	180
Small station	0.25	125	About the size of many Commonwealth stations.
Tiny station	0.1	80

Ships

This scale should be used for starships and other vessels.

The size of a image representing a ship is equal to:

Size(pixels) = 5 * Size(meters)^(0.7)

Object	Size (meters)	Image Size (Pixels)	Notes
10km starship	10,000	3,150
5km starship	5,000	1,950
2.5km starship	2,500	1,200
1km starship	1,000	640
Large capital ship	500	390	About the size of the Iocrym command ship.
Medium capital ship	350	300	About the size of a Commonwealth Star Carrier.¹⁾
Small capital ship	250	240
Large gunship	100	128
Medium gunship	50	78
Small gunship	25	48
Shuttle	10	25
Auton	5	15

Notes

If a station is on an asteroid (e.g., a mining colony) use the size of the station as a guide (the asteroid should be less than twice the size of the station).
Stars probably need a different scale.
Planets are currently out of scale. They need to be roughly double the size.
CSC is slightly out of scale. It should be around 400 meters, which would make it 331 pixels. Also, Centurions are probably too big–they are probably ~25 meters in diameter.

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