Is there any way to determine elevation?

[Scampi]

I thought it would be interesting to know the elevations of the various mountains. Chiliad is definitely the tallest, I think Gordo is second, and Josiah third. Surprisingly none of them have any signs at the peak to indicate elevation, and helicopters don't display it either, unlike the submarine which shows your depth.

 

I think in the first Dom mission he mentions taking the helicopter up to 10,000 feet, but it seems way higher than that to me. At the height he's at you can see the curvature of the Earth practically and are far above the cloud layer. I've been to about 9,000 feet in real life on a mountain side and it's nothing like being in that copter. So I don't know what the height ceiling is, but I think it's far greater than 10k.

 

Also the signs at the Senora National Park say it is at elevation 2,046 feet (give or take a foot, going off memory), which seems pretty high, but could be true.That's another reason I don't believe the height ceiling is 10k, because at max height you are FAR above Chiliad, so those numbers just don't add up.

 

Any ideas to determine the elevations? I know someone here posted Chiliad's height in SA (was about 1725) but that was by fooling around with the PC version, so we may have to wait on this unfortunately.

[Rob Santos]

There is only measurements from the flat map and it would be necessary to make some trigonometric compare. Even if it were possible the result would be only an estimate with great chance of error.

But with the sniper would be possible to view any object on top of the mountain (a tree or a shed) and have an idea of the scale ...

Right ... this is madness ... Sorry.

[TenEightyOne]

Wait for the inevitable PC version, before long the modders will have everything nicely measured up

 

You could actually take Rob Santos' measurements with a plane or helicopter, use the Distance Travelled value.

[Poker2012chu]

I thought it would be interesting to know the elevations of the various mountains. Chiliad is definitely the tallest, I think Gordo is second, and Josiah third. Surprisingly none of them have any signs at the peak to indicate elevation, and helicopters don't display it either, unlike the submarine which shows your depth.

 

I think in the first Dom mission he mentions taking the helicopter up to 10,000 feet, but it seems way higher than that to me. At the height he's at you can see the curvature of the Earth practically and are far above the cloud layer. I've been to about 9,000 feet in real life on a mountain side and it's nothing like being in that copter. So I don't know what the height ceiling is, but I think it's far greater than 10k.

 

Also the signs at the Senora National Park say it is at elevation 2,046 feet (give or take a foot, going off memory), which seems pretty high, but could be true.That's another reason I don't believe the height ceiling is 10k, because at max height you are FAR above Chiliad, so those numbers just don't add up.

 

Any ideas to determine the elevations? I know someone here posted Chiliad's height in SA (was about 1725) but that was by fooling around with the PC version, so we may have to wait on this unfortunately.

 

The height ceiling in the game is around 10k feet give or take 1 - 2k feet. The reason that you appear to be at 30,000 feet when you're actually at about 10,000 is because R* designed the cloud generation in a way to make the game and map look bigger than it actually is. If you get onto a plane, there will be an altimeter on the mini map on the bottom left corner. The bottom big bar is the ground, and the top big bar is the maximum height. The next time you're at Chiliad, go near the top of the mountain in a plane or helicopter and see where that altitude compares with those two bars. There's your answer.

Edited October 6, 2013 by Poker2012chu

[TenEightyOne]

 

The height ceiling in the game is around 10k feet give or take 1 - 2k feet. The reason that you appear to be at 30,000 feet when you're actually at about 10,000 is because R* designed the cloud generation in a way to make the game and map look bigger than it actually is. If you get onto a plane, there will be an altimeter on the mini map on the bottom left corner. The bottom big bar is the ground, and the top big bar is the maximum height. The next time you're at Chiliad, go near the top of the mountain in a plane or helicopter and see where that altitude compares with those two bars. There's your answer.

 

 

Couldn't seem to find an altimeter on the display, the HSI appears but no bar to indicate altitude?

[Scampi]

I couldn't really get the plane method to work either. I see the bar which represents land and the little tick marks, but how much is each one worth? I'm guessing a thousand feet? It's kind of hard to count the bars and still fly the plane steady too, but with practice it might be doable. It all depends on if the top bar really is 10k for all vehicles. I was using the Velum since it was slow, allowing me more time to try to count, but I never tried to take it to max altitude.

[Poker2012chu]

 

 

The height ceiling in the game is around 10k feet give or take 1 - 2k feet. The reason that you appear to be at 30,000 feet when you're actually at about 10,000 is because R* designed the cloud generation in a way to make the game and map look bigger than it actually is. If you get onto a plane, there will be an altimeter on the mini map on the bottom left corner. The bottom big bar is the ground, and the top big bar is the maximum height. The next time you're at Chiliad, go near the top of the mountain in a plane or helicopter and see where that altitude compares with those two bars. There's your answer.

 

 

Couldn't seem to find an altimeter on the display, the HSI appears but no bar to indicate altitude?

 

 

I should rephrase that, my bad. There is no actual display of your height in feet or meters per say, but the horizontal bars on the map on the bottom left corner of the screen should give you an estimate of height if you assume the top one is at around 10,000 feet, the maximum altitude you can reach in the game. Try flying up to the same altitude as Mount Chiliad's peak and see where you (white triangle on the map) falls in relationship with those bars.

Edited October 6, 2013 by Poker2012chu

[Rob Santos]

I'm sorry about the way I write. English is not my native language.

Please correct me if I'm wrong ...

 

[Poker2012chu]

I'm sorry about the way I write. English is not my native language.

Please correct me if I'm wrong ...

 

 

First we need the height of the building we're comparing the height to Chiliad to. Since this game has not been released on PC where you can typically do more stuff like concise calculations, this could be tricky unless we are given a height. Horizontal distance should be easier to calculate.

[Scampi]

I tried the bars thing in a cargobob, figure it's the same bars you see in a plane anyway. The bottom line is ground level, not sea level, so it's always adjusting as you go over hills. So I flew to the top of Chiliad and tried my best to stay level as I flew out to sea. I'd guess it showed 4,000 - 4,500 feet, which does not seem accurate to me if the Senora National Park is already at 2,000 feet. That would mean Chiliad itself is only 2,000 but it is clearly taller in height than the desert is from the sea. I think for the park they just made up the 2k elevation or the bars aren't very accurate. Or maybe I read them wrong. Either way the scaling is weird in this game because as Porker said, 10k feet in this game =/= 10k feet in reality.

[Poker2012chu]

I tried the bars thing in a cargobob, figure it's the same bars you see in a plane anyway. The bottom line is ground level, not sea level, so it's always adjusting as you go over hills. So I flew to the top of Chiliad and tried my best to stay level as I flew out to sea. I'd guess it showed 4,000 - 4,500 feet, which does not seem accurate to me if the Senora National Park is already at 2,000 feet. That would mean Chiliad itself is only 2,000 but it is clearly taller in height than the desert is from the sea. I think for the park they just made up the 2k elevation or the bars aren't very accurate. Or maybe I read them wrong. Either way the scaling is weird in this game because as Porker said, 10k feet in this game =/= 10k feet in reality.

 

I bet that Chiliad's peak is at the height you said it is. I would go with the bar measurement for now. That seems about right because Chiliad is about or just under half the max height you can reach. What's throwing things out of wack is the cloud generation when flying that gives you the illusion of being higher than you really are.

Edited October 7, 2013 by Poker2012chu

[Sir Michael]

Super shameless bump...

The Maze Bank Tower is 1050 ft. high,according to an Online Parachute Jump.. I just flew a Lazer from the Tower roof to Chiliad's Peak in a straight line and got 3.99 miles as the distance. These were the numbers I used for finding the distance... or length C, if we're talking trigonometry: 1592.28-1588.29; the first number is the flight distance after reaching Chiliad, and the second is the number before I took off from Maze Bank.

Hopefully this helps. I'll redo it from Chiliad, grazing Maze Bank's roof and crashing into the Ocean in a straight-line matter from the Mountain, just to give a usable distance.

[Hobs]

i agree it would be a nice addition to the game while walking around various parts of the maps, but at the moment i don't know of any way of going about this.

 

best of luck

 

Hobs.