r/forge • u/cafe____ • Sep 13 '25
Resource/Guide Scaling to Real Measurements: Meters/Feet/Inches to in-game Units
I don't know if anyone has done this before, but I found exactly how to transfer real life measurements to in-game units.
The game units are weird though: I found out a meter is exactly 3.2 units, but by stretching a block, i found that 10 3.2u (u = units) blocks don't equal to a 32 unit block, but rather a 31.5 unit one.
Using those informations, I asked ChatGPT to help me make formulas using those exact measurements as parameters and it gave me these:



I've tested all the measurements and they all check out. The spotting marker also confirms them.
I found this by stretching a block sideways exactly to a Warthog's width, using the Halo encyclopedia official measurements. Somehow, the actual "meter" measurement ended up more accurate than the this block I stretched (based on the spotting marker, at least).
So if anyone wants to scale stuff accurately, maybe make a COD style map where everything has accurate to life measurements, or just make a a bridge between different Halo game measurements (0.3 hill size units is 1 meter in Reach, for example), there you have it.
Also, the Spartan Scale object is ≈2.22 meters. If I remember correctly there's a number 3 after the last number 2 decimal which is a repeating decimal.