Silverfisk Hammer Units Converter 1.1 download

Silverfisk

Lucas joined Dec 14, 2005

Welcome to my ModDB page, here you can basically find my blog and stuff I made. I'll upload some nice screenshots of my maps soon. Mapping is what I do, mainly for the Source engine (I want to learn other engines too). My main projects right now are The Wind (www.thewind.tv), wich is a machinima, and a school project involving me and my friend making a Half-Life 2 Singleplayer mod (ModDB profile will be created soonish).

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Hammer_Units_Converter_11.zip

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Silverfisk

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May 15th, 2008

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Description

This tool can convert to and from Hammer units, inches, feet, meters, decimeters and centimeters. Now you won't have to open up calc every time you need to make a conversion, instead you open up this trustworthy tool and make sure you get everything right. In version 1.1 I have added support for the metric system, this will probably be the final version but if you want to make it better I included the source files (it's written in Java). I hope you find my tool useful, all feedback is appreciated.

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Precautious May 16 2008, 8:39am says:

This can actually be very useful for those pesky recreational mapping situations.

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freredarme May 16 2008, 2:18pm says:

Hum, precious good idea.

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Hunter-Prime May 16 2008, 2:38pm says:

Thanks for adding the meters.

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hl_grunt May 16 2008, 3:54pm says:

Erm... So if Gordon's height is at 72 units, that makes him 4.5 feet tall... Or I'm just not quite getting something... Will someone explain?

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Silverfisk May 17 2008, 9:08am replied:

If you are in doubt, use the quick reference found here --> Developer.valvesoftware.com to make your own conversion.

I can even make it for you:
1 unit = 0.75 inches
0.75 * 72 = 54
54 inches = 4.5 feet

Gordon might seem small, but that's just how it is, maybe they made him smaller to give the player more freedom of movement. :-)

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hl_grunt May 17 2008, 3:27pm replied:

What's more interesting is the stuff on that page about model height - "[h]uman Character models for Source Engine currently use 1 foot = 12 units." while "[m]aps, architecture and prop models use a scale of 1 foot = 16 units."

In other words, 72/12 = 6 feet for the player model. Basically they made a model that was proportional to the six feet body, and shrunk it somewhat to fit the actual 4'6" height in the game world... Weirdest thing ever... I wonder why valve did this. I guess you're right, valve wanted the player to fit through small holes but did not want to admit that he is in fact a midget, so they made all the human models in game small as well as normally proportioned. Mind boggling.

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Silverfisk May 18 2008, 7:41am replied:

I can only agree with you there.

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Silverfisk May 18 2008, 7:43am says:

Thanks for all the comments folks, if you like this tool I'd appreciate if you told your mapping friends about it. ;-D

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