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

[Campbell Barton]

First of all, your not going to get 1.0 == 1ft. America is the only 
country that still uses imperial and its an in-efficient system, not 
even the American army use it.
1.0 as 1 metre is probably better. however it could be 1cm or 1km 
depending on the scale your working.

The solution to your problem is alredy part solved though not commited- 
let me explain.
A while back theeth added Python evaluation support for all blender 
number input buttons. it even imported math.
so you could do sqrt(9) as your input. - (Theeth, correct me if Im 
wrong) But he didnt commit because it would be better to have blender 
remember the python input and be able to re-evaluate later (much more 
powerfull).... however- it would be possible to have functions ft(x), 
inch(x), or even km(x), m(), cm().
WHen you use metric, its not realy a problem anyway- if 1.0 is a metre 
then its no big deal to work out the rest...

- Cam


Joshua Ascilator wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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