Gateways must be built within the PylonPsionic Matrix. More Gateways can be made for each expansion taken due to the improved economy.
Players typically make many Gateways to increase their unit production capacity. Protoss players make heavy use of every unit produced at the Gateway, making it the most important production building in every Protoss match-up. It's not actually star-sized.The Gateway is a Protoss building that is used for building infantry units. The Solar Core itself however you see in the game, and it's tiny, like under 200' tall. At any rate those were made after this chart, so I wasn't thinking about them at the time.)Īnd then yeah the arkship does completely dwarf everything else.
It also looks like to fake the atmospheric effect where things in the distance fade to the atmosphere's color, they just made forced-perspective scaled models slightly transparent, so you see the building through the mothership, but. (Then in the Covert Ops cutscenes there are some very very weirdly scaled in-engine cutscenes that make everything look tiny that I think you're just not supposed to think about. In engine stuff is less reliable again, but nothing in LotV implies that Motherships are any more than like 3x larger than carriers. Here's some detail where you can see windows/decks. You'll also note that the Reclamation cutscene in LotV takes place above a mothership, this model, and it's already plenty big, but not bigger. You can definitely fit a ton of Protoss in there. While mine is only around 6.2 square km in area, they also have many many stories, with the whole middle section being taller and wayyyyy thicker than the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. I do consider the Mothership floating city-sized. Fortunately, the Zerg being Zerg, both of those Leviathan designs can easily coexist, as any one could grow a much larger abdomen section in order to carry more troops or Zerg buildings for a larger brood, so I can just explain away even pretty extreme variation with "all Zerg buildings and units can be grown in different sizes." I would have argued at the time I did that drawing that the front sections of the body looked so small because of perspective distortion from it being so crazy big, but it turns out that the cinematic model actually looks like this, i./URpJ92B.jpg, and Blizzard actually had it much smaller than I had guessed. It also turns out the cinematic Leviathan model for that cutscene is actually a completely different shape than the one we see far more of in-game, in wallpapers, etc. If any of the in-engine cutscene shots imply they are moon sized, I attribute it to their constant use a of forced perspective and weirdly-scaled things, never actually using full-sized planets for example because the draw distance and lighting / rendering setup for that kind of shot would be ridiculous. Leviathans definitely can't be moon-sized as in the HotS intro, as well as on planets like Zerus Kerrigan's Leviathan fits very comfortably in atmosphere, even below clouds. Honestly the game and surrounding media is not 100% consistent, but I will stand by most of these sizes. It just won't be all Blizzard approved stuff.) This one has the Blizzard-official sizes and much more polished artwork from the Field Manual, but I still plan to have another version with all the hero units like the Odin added in. (If you are wondering, "What happened to all of the extra units from the single player campaigns, or the retro Brood War designs? I remember there being more," I'm splitting the chart up into two versions. And you can see that the art is much more polished than in previous versions. Here you can zoom in and get a much better look at the artwork, and there's a lot less empty space than some of my early online versions. As you can see from all the different units' shapes and the fact that each race's units take up a different amount of space, formatting this for book pages is quite tricky. The version in the book itself had the formatting and a bit of color correction done by Insight Editions. These images were also on display at BlizzCon 2015, which was an honor. If you are interested, here is a short interview Blizzard did with me about the charts and my involvement with StarCraft art in general.
#STARCRAFT BROOD WAR TERRAN UNITS FULL#
We never discussed an official size for the Liberator while working on the book, for example, because it hadn't been created yet.)ĭownloading the full size, 5200x9325 image is necessary! (It also features the few multiplayer units that were omitted from the book, so it's like 98% official. The 'official,' authoritative version, featuring all the units at their Blizzard-approved sizes from Insight Editions' StarCraft Field Manual!
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