Hi Maurice… Sorry for taking that long to answer… it’s been a crazy week with work here…
Is a nice suggestion, that actually was the idea when i prepared the grid floor, but some doubts came out…
First of all, Blender units are like “whatever you want them to be”… Lately there’s the common assumption that 1.0 Blender unit is 1.0 Meter but i sincerely don’t like that conversion since is not very comfortable to work and lacks some precision… I actually see 1.0 Blender unit as 1.0 Decimeter. Is a little odd but is much more manageable than 1.0 = 1.0mts for my works… Of course i don’t want people to stick with my way of work and prefer to leave the units as a personal decision…
Now, if we see other Material Scenes, there’s not a strict rule about what unit should be used…
…and more than that… Some materials could use different units than other… in one case you want to make elephant skin and the next time you want to make a strawberry surface… Each case should use a very different scale scene to come up with a nice preview.
What i’m thinking is to create an easy way to indicate scale in the scene, similar to what Maxwell, Indigo and My mental ray guys did with their scenes on the floor but going a little beyond… maybe create an easy input where the user can change how many units fits in each square of the floor…
In othe words, people can change the units indicator to be Inches, Centimeters, Decimeters, Meters or whatever they want.
I’m sure this will be an easy job :)… thanks for that suggestion.
Greets.
tuqueque
…is a little confusing when writing here in english, doing some chat with friends in spanish… and triying to work at the same time.:spin: