[Bf-funboard] What I would wish for...

Joshua Ascilator ascilator at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 21:58:50 CET 2006


Being able to add maesurements into blender would help alot, I often make
level models small and then have a hard time trying to adjust them to scale
with a character.

On 1/8/06, Ed Halley <ed at halley.cc> wrote:
>
>
> Lars Hansson wrote:
> > Is it possible to embed measuring units (such as metre, feet, inch,
> mile,
> > kilometre, etc... ) for everything created?
>
> I would also like to see this; it would just be an inert data flag when
> you are authoring a model, but when you are Appending a library model
> into your project, it could do the world-space conversion very easily.
>
>                        1 inch
>     1 Blender Unit = [ 1 foot : ]
>                        1 yard
>                        1 mile
>                        0.001 meter (mm)
>                        0.01 meter (cm)
>                        0.1 meter
>                        1 meter
>                        10 meters
>                        100 meters
>                        1000 meters (km)
>
> I think the best way to do the conversion easily is to parent all the
> Appended items as-is to a new Empty, and then give the Empty the
> appropriate scale conversion factor to match the current session's scale
> choice.
>
> In fact, maybe it's just that each Empty has a "World Units" field, and
> they scale against the user's preferred world units automatically.
>
> I have previously requested an ability to (1) load a number of objects
> automatically parented into a new Empty, and/or (2) load one object and
> have that object's children loaded with it.  Unit conversion is one good
> application of either request.
>
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