Timothy Groves wrote:

Worked like a charm, except...

Well, I forgot the stupid speeds at which Honorverse ships move.  I 
expanded the containment boxes by a factor of 100, increased the sizes 
of the spheres within by the same factor.  That made the depth from 
camera of the box 3000 units.  3000 meters, since that is the scale I 
use for Honorverse ships.

At http://tailkinker.batcave.net/cruiser.avi you will find a rendered 
animation of a Light Cruiser with your space junk macro in use, scaled 
up as above.  Note that by the time the Cruiser passes the camera, the 
space junk is sailing past at speeds high enough to make them irrelevant 
to the scene.

The reason for this is that the Cruiser is moving at 4207 m/s at the 
time that it passes the camera.  Further, the Cruiser was accelerating 
at 52 G, which is 10% of max power.

Considering Fearless accelerates at 520 G for 70 minutes before the 
start of her firefight with Sirius, that means she would be moving at 
21,436 km/s.

So thank you for the lovely macro, I can probably find many other uses 
for it - crud in the ocean, perhaps, if I ever do a sub animation, or 
use it for slower moving spacecraft.  Unfortunately, Honorverse ships 
are just too fast for such references.

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