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Old 04-13-07, 04:56 PM   #5
Ostfriese
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Originally Posted by Quillan
It's flat, I'm sure. In SH3, the Kriegsmarine map grids were nice and square near the equator, but grew significantly larger and elongated the farther away you went. In reality, the distance between the eastern and western edges of a grid square should be the same no matter if it's on the equator or north of Iceland, but that's not how it was in the game.

SH4 is using longitude and latitude lines intead of grid squares, but I'm still pretty sure it doesn't model a globe and calculate distances appropriately.
If you zoom in on the map, you can see the squares formed by longitude and latitude lines. They form perfect squares, no matter whether you look for it at the equator or near Alaska. In reality they would never form squares. The SH4 World definitely IS flat.
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