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workspace scale conversion About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. workspace scale conversion // Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by tatts // Mar 28, 2009, 7:00am tatts Total Posts: 145 Is there a way to set the scale to real world measurement rather than having to work with units? I know the model side does this but what about workspace. Post by prodigy // Mar 28, 2009, 7:03am prodigy Total Posts: 3029 The tip is understand that 1 unit is 1 meter in workspace.. ;) Post by tatts // Mar 28, 2009, 7:25am tatts Total Posts: 145 umm.... I know that already :D But it is sometimes nice to be able to model by using real world measurements rather than having to convert everything yourself. Post by prodigy // Mar 28, 2009, 8:24am prodigy Total Posts: 3029 Ha yes.. i agree but sadly there's no option in WS.. and Meters are real world measurements too ;) all depends where you live hehehe Post by Jack Edwards // Mar 28, 2009, 10:24am Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 If you want to scale from meter to something else then you can select the whole scene and scale it up or down. ;) Keep in mind that many of the real-world type render engines, VRay, YafaRay, Kerkythea expect 1 unit to equal a specific measurement like 1 meter or 1 centimeter and will render light accordingly. Post by tatts // Mar 28, 2009, 2:40pm tatts Total Posts: 145 Ahhh that's ok im used to modelling in units anyway. Deled only works in units as well. It's just I knew you can model like this on the model side so I thought ther was a way to do the same in WS. Really im just on a learning binge and exploring the crap out of the workspace :) As far a real time renderers for lighting......I've never used them so I guess im ok. Everything I make and have ever made is mainly all low poly and ment for DBPro. I use darkphysics/Nvidia Physx which also is based around the idea of 1 unit = 1 meter. So normally using deled, I would model everything on the idea of 1 unit = 1 cm or 1 half inch then from there I would just scale everything down to size when I export. On the model side I found it pretty handy that you could model everything based on true measurements. This way I had no need to worry about how much to scale the object down by sinse it would already be the size that i would need it. This is one thing that I have always found annoying between a model editor and a csg editior, is the fact that most csg editors if not all, only allow you to create objects as small as one unit. This is the thing I found with DBPro too. if you were load an object by itself at 1 unit and ran the code, That object would look pretty big by default. that's because dbpro is the same as TS in the way that it views objects, so you could imagine what a floor alone would look like from a csg editor if I were to load it without scaling. Because i have been exploring WS so deaply, I found things about it that, well you can say I won't be modeling worlds using any csg editors any more. the only program that is still of use to me is deled and that is because it can export multitextured objects to DBO format for dbpro.

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