Very quick question about resizing of parts.

[EdgeCrusher420]

When resizing say, the stackable battery bank, from its stock 1.25 size to 2.5 or 2.5 to 3.75, what factor are you supposed to change the storage/mass at. Im probably overthinking it. I did double originally but that doesnt seem right, now im thinking 4x but im not sure. Can some modder give me the magic number please.

[Sᴄɪɴᴛɪʟʟᴀᴛᴏʀ]

It depends on how powerful you want it to be, entirely up to you.

[EdgeCrusher420]

I understand I can add any value I want. But if I were to take the battery and keep all its values proportional to its size change. If im increasing its size from 1.25 to 2.5 and its stock capacity is 500 then what should the new capacity be if I keep the ratio the same...

[EdgeCrusher420]

Or in other words can somebody tell me how much larger an object grows when you change it from 1.25 to 2.5? its not 2x is it 3x or 4x? or some in between number? So i can apply the same increase to the mass and capacity

[Olvirm]

if you think about it in circles... the face area of a 1.25m part is pi(1.25)^2 and the face area of a 2.5m part is pi(2.5)^2. So if you make the ratio of mass/capacity the same as the ratio of areas (granted the height of the object is the same, if not use the ratio of volumes) it should be somewhat right

[Olvirm]

if you don't want to bother the ratio is 4:1 (doubling the radius quadruples the area)

[Johnno]

Volume of a cylinder is pi(radius)^2 times height, Olvirm didn't divide by 2 for radius (but did have the correct ratio idea). And if you're doing a rescaleFactor=2 in config file, then the magic number is 8, since you're doubling height/thickness as well.

Putting 'volume math' or similar into google will give you all the formulas you need.

[EdgeCrusher420]

So according to the magic number of 8, then the capacity of a 1.25 battery at 500 will now be at 4000 capacity for 2.5? Thanks for the help.

[JacaByte]

If you assume density is constant and volume doubles, then all other stats dependent on a specific density will also double. (mass, charge, fuel capacity, etc.)