Scaling the player: make the map "seem" bigger?

[sackcreator54]

Hello,

I'm trying to make a survival type gamemode, and I found that if I scale the player and change their movement speed, I can make the map seem 10x bigger than it actually is.

My question:

How would I scale the player? I know i'm gonna have to hook into calcview to draw the camera down a little, but how do I just scale the player?

[EvacX]

for physics:
[b][url=http://gmodwiki.net/Lua/Classes/Player/SetHull]Lua/Classes/Player/SetHull[img]http://gmodwiki.net/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]
[b][url=http://gmodwiki.net/Lua/Classes/Player/SetHullDuck]Lua/Classes/Player/SetHullDuck[img]http://gmodwiki.net/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]

for visuals (I think):
[b][url=http://gmodwiki.net/Lua/Classes/Entity/SetModelScale]Lua/Classes/Entity/SetModelScale[img]http://gmodwiki.net/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]

[sackcreator54]

What about scaling the player model?

[Acecool]

	local min 		= Vector( -16 * scale, -16 * scale, 0 )
	local max 		= Vector( 16 * scale, 16 * scale, 64 * scale )
	-- local maxduck	= Vector( 16 * scale, 16 * scale, 36 * scale )
	local stepsize  = math.Round( 18 * scale )
	_lp:SetModelScale( scale, 0 );
	_lp:SetRenderBounds( min, max ) --This should fix the player randomly disappearing.
	_lp:SetHull( min , max )
	-- Player:SetHullDuck( min , maxduck )
	_lp:SetViewOffset( Vector( 0, 0, 64 * scale ) )
	_lp:SetViewOffsetDucked( Vector( 0, 0, 32 * scale ) )
	_lp:SetStepSize( stepsize )
	if ( updatebones ) then _lp:SetupBones( ); end

The scale isn't correct in this snippet; use OBBMins and OBBMaxs to get the size. Also, it is more complicated than that. Many have tried. The most complicated part is resizing vehicles. The rest isn't that bad ( aside from resizing a map ).

If you scale to 0.5, you'll have a map 4 times the size...
0.25 = 16 times the size...

Don't go too much smaller because you don't want to run into accuracy issues ( movement speed, etc ).

[EvacX]

Also you probably should not scale by a factor of 10, powers of 2 tend to work better for practically anything.