City Set
 

I’m building a city set to try my hand at animation, but I’m not sure on how big I should set the scale in the world for my objects. Any help would be great.
Thanks for your time:)

it doesnt really matter how big it is just make sure everything is relative to one object
hope that helps

right mumbo, it really does not matter. but it might be good to use the maya units as a measurement - e.g. imagine one maya unit to be 1 meter. this way you can have accuracy up to 1 mm - should be enough for a city scene ...

p.s.: dont jump on me that you might be able to work more accurate - but if you enter numbers you are limited to 3 digits after the comma (or point) - i am not 100% sure if verts can be places more accurate ...

RIGHT On Guys!:) Thanks for the info,,It realy dose help.. thanks

how are you gonna build the city? one of the guys on my course is building a city procedurally using MEL. that would probably be easier than trying to model it all by hand.... :D

Alan

By hand at this point, I'm not good at MEL just yet, but I/ll be taking casses in the fall and hopefully will learn with out pulling my hair out:D the one reason I asked this question is when I go into the city to fix up some of the Detail I have a hard time getting close to the point where I want to fix, My move tool slows down and I have to push the mouse more to get to the point where I want.(if that makes sense) and ? not on this problem but dose any one have the problem of working in Maya and then the W-E-R- keys stop working and have to go to the tool bar to use them?:confused:

Try selecting the object you want to fix up, and hit F. It'll focus on the object, and you'll be set. :)

I had that problem, untill i realized i had the caps lock on :(

Just dont make it too big, or the objects will disappear when you scale out.

view >> camera attribute editor >> far clip plane

change this value to a higher one and they wont dissapear

Alan

Ahhh HAaaa........I knew I could change it. You just saved me some time man. Thanks.

you're welcome. :) and obviously if there is something close up that is disappearing changing the near clip plane to a smaller number will stop that happening

Alan

BabyDuck, what do you mean by a Maya Unit? Do you mean the units of the grid itself? like one square on the grid is one unit? (or to be thought of as 1 squ meter as you suggested above?)