Cannonball size

[Fargo]

http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=159736-1472035485.png

 

Roughly estimated this 42pd cannonball (19kg) weights about 1500 kg

Is there a reason cannonballs are displayed so huge?!

[LeBoiteux]

Visibility  ?

Fun ?

[Fargo]

Visibility  ?

Fun ?

 

Immersion?

[maturin]

In the past I've joked that we're firing sawdust-filled watermelons at each other.

[Salzi]

42lb cannon should be using a 6.68 inch diamaiter ball so yeah you are right thats way too large ^^

[Cecil Selous]

I would like to know how the size of the cannonballs ingame affect the accuracy. Are cannonballs considered as a point mass and only a direct hit to a mast counts? Or is the virtual diameter of the ball the important aspect so we also have graze shots to the mast. And if so is it the real diameter of the ball or the one we see ingame (the medicine ball sized one)?

Edited September 16, 2016 by Cecil Selous

[Fuzzyhead12]

I would like to know how the size of the cannonballs ingame affect the accuracy. Are cannonballs considered as a point mass and only a direct hit to a mast counts? Or is the virtual diameter of the ball the important aspect so we also have graze shots to the mast. And if so is it the real diameter of the ball or the one we see ingame (the medicine ball sized one)?

the canonbals are just sprites, otherwise there would be framdrops. these sprites are indeed just bound on a point of mass with a certain penetration and velocity parameters with a certain ballistic curve