Do you ever just want to measure something in game? Like you used scale modifiers on your flexbody and you want to see what size it has now? Or you want to know the wheelbase of vanilla vehicles? Now you can! Introducing the long ruler! This prop allows you to check the size of anything with milimetric precision! The numbers are spaced by 1cm up until 1m, then there are gradually less and less markings as I was getting more and more tired of placing them lol. The full length of the ruler is almost 10m which should be more than enough to measure any car in the game! The usage of the ruler is pretty simple. You spawn it from the vehicle selector and then use the World Editor (F11) to set up its position and rotation as you wish. (Can be a bit annoying with the new gizmo but you can get used to it.) The ruler will not fall down, it will also not collide with any vehicles, basically it's not affected by physics. It can clip through anything with no issue which makes measurements way easier. For example, you can check the length of the Moonhawk from bumper to bumper: Roughly 530cm. That's a long car! And the ruler is almost twice as long! Why did I make this? Because nobody made it before, of course. Might be useful to some people too. Enjoy! EDIT: Added a new tool, the spirit level. It is used to check if a surface is level. Kinda jank but I just wanted to try if it's possible to make. Use the Roll UI app on the prop to get an accurate reading of the surface angle. Only the top bubble works, the other is fake.
Sorry to bump, but I´m too dummy to measure anything. Can´t bring the i-Series and the ruler in a useful relation, don´t know how to move things in F11 or handle the camera there, even more so to read the meter - the camera always goes too far. I wished I could "drive" the ruler. Could someone please measure me the length of an i-Series ETK? I´d be very grateful.
The length is 4.68m for the pre-facelift bumpers and 4.63m for the facelift ones. Though Jbeam-wise both are 4.68m.
Thank you! I wanted to know if it is more like a 7-series (4.86m) or a 5-series (4.62m) so this riddle is now solved. I even managed to move some objects in F11 with 1,2,3 keyboard shortcuts.
Added another tool because I just wanted to try if it's possible to make in game. It's kinda jank but works.
Can you add 1 or 10 or 100 km long ruler configurations to measure distances such as when one launches missile to see the distances between objects for more precise calculations if it the target is far amiss?
That would be so much work, sorry but I'm not really interested. It would be better to write some lua file to measure the distance.
@Agent_Y I love the idea of this tool as I would like to measure wheelbases and vehicle heights but holy cow is it borderline impossible to read in its current form. Is there any way to make it much bigger and more readable?
For a few updates now the Grid, Small, Pure map has had some markers for wheelbase measurement near the spawn point
Good to know, I was on the bigger Grid map and didn't check out any others. Beyond that, if I wanted to measure vertical things like ground clearance, is there a way to manipulate the ruler to make it easier to see?
