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[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

That does make sense (lol thank you physics).  Come to think of it, if you were on a planet with a big amount of gravity, your overall height would be shortened as humans adapt to the large change in gravity to compensate to have better balance.  How far away is Fennon to Illal_

[Magnolia1038]

Hey guys,

Some information I think you may find useful:

According to lore the Giga-Structure initially covers 16.48% of Illal's surface area, or approximately 4000 Square Miles. Thus we can infer that the total surface area of Illal is 24,271.85 Square Miles.

For reference Earth is approximately 197,000,000 Square Miles. Hope this helps!

[SandSpider]

Magnolia1038, on January 19 2014 - 05:33 PM, said:

Hey guys,

Some information I think you may find useful:

According to lore the Giga-Structure initially covers 16.48% of Illal's surface area, or approximately 4000 Square Miles. Thus we can infer that the total surface area of Illal is 24,271.85 Square Miles.

For reference Earth is approximately 197,000,000 Square Miles. Hope this helps!

That would make Illal a lot smaller than Earth, unless that is just land mass and not Ocean.

[SandSpider]

Hijinks_The_Turtle, on January 19 2014 - 04:51 PM, said:

That does make sense (lol thank you physics).  Come to think of it, if you were on a planet with a big amount of gravity, your overall height would be shortened as humans adapt to the large change in gravity to compensate to have better balance.  How far away is Fennon to Illal_

Fennon orbits Illal at a distance of 453,598 km, according to my Universe Sandbox simulation.

Edited by SandSpider, January 20 2014 - 04:43 AM.

[Kvalheim]

Is it just me or does Illal have a very... upside down look to the continent_

[OdinTheWise]

The density of a planet is not always a constant. Gravity is not determined by size but density.

[SandSpider]

OdinTheWise, on January 20 2014 - 08:29 AM, said:

The density of a planet is not always a constant. Gravity is not determined by size but density.

Well I made the mass to be 1.08 Earths, so it would be more like home, gravitationally wise.

Edited.

Edited by SandSpider, March 02 2014 - 12:17 PM.

[SandSpider]

OdinTheWise, on January 15 2014 - 09:49 AM, said:

looking good, i thought the cities were supposed to occupy most of illal

I decided to take another look at the cities and I think they are a bit smaller than they should be as Odin pointed out.

So I have done some alterations to the texture map, the bump map and the illuminations map.

I've extended Prosk and Sentium. They are now about twice the size than they were before.

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[KeramatZMode]

Is it only me, or Hawken players are superbly talented_

This is super awesome, I jawdropped on every details.

[SandSpider]

Thank you, I'm glad you like

[SandSpider]

New render with the latest textures.

[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

I really gotta wonder what the gravity is on Illal, here on Earth it's 9.8 m/s....  Since Illal is slightly larger than Earth, I wonder what the gravity would be_  (Any help here fellow physics people_)

[Magnolia1038]

Hijinks_The_Turtle, on February 11 2014 - 02:47 PM, said:

I really gotta wonder what the gravity is on Illal, here on Earth it's 9.8 m/s....  Since Illal is slightly larger than Earth, I wonder what the gravity would be_  (Any help here fellow physics people_)

Illal is actually quite small compared to Earth However, in comparison of SandSpider's brilliant work I'd venture to say gravity would be relatively equal given the sizes of both planets.

[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

Magnolia1038, on February 11 2014 - 04:28 PM, said:

Hijinks_The_Turtle, on February 11 2014 - 02:47 PM, said:

I really gotta wonder what the gravity is on Illal, here on Earth it's 9.8 m/s....  Since Illal is slightly larger than Earth, I wonder what the gravity would be_  (Any help here fellow physics people_)

Illal is actually quite small compared to Earth However, in comparison of SandSpider's brilliant work I'd venture to say gravity would be relatively equal given the sizes of both planets.

Oh yeah!  You did post something here on this very thread earlier about the surface area of Illal being much smaller than Earth.

[SandSpider]

Let me explain what I have done.

The sixth planet in the Kepler 11 system is a gas giant around the size of Neptune. It's about four times bigger than Earth. So I tried to make a planet the same size, but like Earth. The only problem with that, is that the gravity would be way to high.

So I split the planet in two and created an Earth size planet with a large moon. Combined, these are still a lot smaller in size and mass than the real sixth planet, but it was the only way I could think of to keep it as close to the real system as possible.

There was another idea that I had and that was to make Illal it's self, a moon orbiting a gas giant. However, none of the skybox's in the game show anything like that, so I went with the first idea.

My version of Illal has a mass of 1.8 Earth's, so the gravity is 1.8 of Earth.  I've changed this bit, see below.

I actually have a problem with the area that the virus is supposed to cover according to lore. 4000 sq miles is smaller than the island of Jamaica, which doesn't really sound all that threatening.  But then if the surface area of Illal is just  24,271.85 Square Miles, then that would make the planet smaller than our moon.

This doesn't actually make any sense.

Edited by SandSpider, February 22 2014 - 06:25 PM.

[SandSpider]

Ok, I've made some adjustments to the data about Illal. I've changed everything except the size.

Physics
  
Type: Standard iron/silicate
Radius: 6910.70 km   (1.08 x earth)
Surface Area: 6.00 x 108 km2
Land Area: 1.86 x 108 km2   (1.25 x earth)
Mass: 6.61 x 1024 kg   (1.11 x earth)
Density: 4.78 g/cm3   (0.87 x earth)
Composition: 34.3% iron, 26.4% oxygen, 18.0% sulphur, 14.1% silicon, 2.9% other metals, 4.4% other elements

Gravimetry
  
Gravity: 9.20 m/s2   (0.94 x earth)
Escape Velocity: 11.28 km/s

Rotation  

Period: 23.75 hours
Axis Tilt : 18.09 °

Hydrosphere

Water: 50 %
Ice: 15 %

Original Atmosphere

Type: Thin toxic
Pressure: 68.60 kPa   (0.68 x earth)
Composition: 84.5% carbon dioxide, 15.5% argon, trace other gases

Climate  

Type: Cool
Min Temp: 189 K   (-83 °C)
Avg Temp: 293 K   (20 °C)
Max Temp: 336 K   (63 °C)

Civilization  

Type: Colony
Population: 7.77 million

Distance from star 1.05au on the inner edge of the habitable zone

Edited by SandSpider, September 14 2014 - 03:26 PM.

[SandSpider]

The purpose of this post is to show people the three most important places on Illal. Prosk, Sentium and Crion.

It will also show how the Hawken virus has spread across the planet and left the Giga Structure behind.

The first illustration shows the largest of the three mega cities, Prosk.

At the bottom left of the planet, you can see the encroaching giga structure as the virus gradually moves into the Bazaar, Uptown and Prosk maps.



The second illustration show the second biggest mega city Sentium. So far, Sentium is virus free.



The next Illustration shows the huge man made island that was the home of Crion Solutions. The scar left by the blast from the Crion Incident can still be seen. The explosion was massive but non nuclear. It was the cause of the virus that is now consuming the planet.



This last illustration shows how far the virus has spread. At the edge, middle left, you can see Crion island. On the far right, you can see the coastal area of Prosk.

The virus covers roughly one third of the surface area of the planet.

Edited by SandSpider, March 08 2014 - 03:10 AM.

[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

Dude, this is pretty detailed and awesome!

[Magnolia1038]

Brilliant as always!

[Aregon]

Bloody brilliant chap! You deserve a cup of tea next time we meet!

Tally ho!