How far is a yard on screen?

Some skills, such as the Acid Rain version of Acid Cloud, reference ranges that are specified in yards. How can I figure out what this translates to on my screen?

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Here is an awesome visualization of the distances, courtesy of diablo.incgamers.com. Note the dashed lines that indicate different display ratios.

So 10 yards gives you a radius about the height of your character, while 40 yards gives a circle that reaches just about to the edge of a 4:3 screen (note that you can see further in front of you than you can in back).

Here's the larger discussion around the creation of this image.

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To give a better explanation, the way they did the "yards" in the game is a matter of how they evaluated 1.0 in float value (decimal values in scripting).

• Enemies closest attack in melee can only be used if 1 yard away or less from the player. (Same for the closest melee skills from the player.) • The player's hit box has a 1 yards radius. (1 yard all around the center point of the character) • The smallest enemies in the game has a 2x2x2 yards cube hitbox.

1 yard as "in-game" is the smallest average measurement used.

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