[Bf-committers] inconsistent units

[Bart]

Ok,

but better then call it scale (size is confusing). And what about a size 
input that depends on the bounding box?

Martin Poirier wrote:

> size is a relative property, it has next to nothing to
> do with the bounding size of the object.
> 
> Size indicates the scaling of the object from its
> reference size. Which means that if an object has Size
> = (3, 3, 3) (3 times as big on all axis) and a vertex
> on (1, 1, 1), the real position of the vertex will be
> (3, 3, 3).
> 
> There's nothing wrong here as long as you know what
> size means.
> 
> Martin
> 
> --- Bart <bart@neeneenee.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Why are units of size, vertex positions and grid
>>spacing are not the same?
>>
>>Small example:
>>- you creat a cube in the top view
>>- the transform propertie panel shows size of 1x1x1
>>- but at the grid (that has spacing 1 too) you can
>>see it is 2x2x2
>>- the Vertex XYZ are always something like -1,1,1 in
>>relation to the
>>	center of the object, that means the object is
>>2x2x2 too
>>- creating a cube that is 8x11x2 has the same
>>vertext cords (something
>>	like -1,1,1) like a cube with size 1x1x1
>>
>>seems there is something really wrong :(
>>_______________________________________________
>>Bf-committers mailing list
>>Bf-committers@blender.org
>>
> 
> http://www.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 		
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-committers mailing list
> Bf-committers@blender.org
> http://www.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>