Soo.... To keep everybody happy, XSI "should" have some automatic "decimal mover" for dynamics when you change from the 1 unit=10cm, to anything else.
I can still hear the users moan that want to use inches, as all the dynamics are in metric...
rob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Guy Rabiller
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 11:40 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Feet and inches in XSI
But things are less simple when your start dealing with dynamics ;-)
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guy rabiller | 3d technical director (at) LaMaison
guillaume laforge a écrit :
> I hate system with unit preferences ! I love XSI "implicit unite" system !
>
> My 1/2 euro
>
> Guillaume Laforge, traumatized by CAD tools where you need to check
> the unit to know the size...
> Also traumatized by 3ds max where you need to know the unit when you
> open a file on a max with a different unit preference.
>
> 1 unit = 1 unit is so easy :-)
>
>
>
>
> On 3/27/06, *Jordi Bares* <jordibares(at)the-mill.com
> <mailto:jordibares(at)the-mill.com>> wrote:
>
> Still can't understand the affection you guys have for the imperial
> system, is about time is dropped everywhere.
>
> Adrian, do it in metric and then convert to imperial.
>
> jb
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:41 -0500, Martin Belleau wrote:
> > 12 inches in a foot.
> > so in my example :
> > 6 feet 8 inches in a scale edit box of xsi would be (6*12)+8
> (because
> > I determined that one inch = one softimage unit.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ______________________________________________________________________
> >
> > From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> <mailto:From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM> [mailto:
> owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM>] On
> > Behalf Of Halfdan Ingvarsson
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:15 PM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Subject: RE: Feet and inches in XSI
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > (.6*12)+.8 ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - ½
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM> [mailto:owner- <mailto:owner->
> > xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:xsi(at)Softimage.COM>]On Behalf
> Of Martin Belleau
> > Sent: Friday, 24 March, 2006 14:52
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Subject: RE: Feet and inches in XSI
> >
> > Because plans are usually labeled for example as 6'-8"
> >
> > If one softimage unit = 1 inch, its easier and faster
> and more
> > precise to import a cube with a length of 1 si unit and type
> > in (6*12)+8 in the numerical field... Since we have no real
> > measure tools, or conversion tools for the units, this is
> > pretty easy to do...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ______________________________________________________________
> >
> > From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> <mailto:From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM>]
> > On Behalf Of Halfdan Ingvarsson
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:55 PM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Subject: RE: Feet and inches in XSI
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rendering errors are probably the majority of it due to
> > inherent numerical precision limits with computers in
> general.
> > I'm not going to explain that whole thing again since last
> > time I tried, people got hospitalised with mental injuries.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Why not model 1 SI unit = 10 inches? It's all rather
> arbitrary
> > anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - ½
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM> [mailto:owner- <mailto:owner->
> > xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:xsi(at)Softimage.COM>]On
> Behalf Of Adrian Lopez
> > Sent: Friday, 24 March, 2006 13:50
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Subject: Re: Feet and inches in XSI
> >
> > "considered big" ?? What does that mean? Will it
> > cause rendering errors? Simulation errors? If I'm
> > modelling an evironment, using SI units as inches,
> > I'll be getting to 1000 units pretty easily.
> >
> > Is there some reason for this limitation? It seems
> > pretty silly for a 'high end' 3D app not to be
> able to
> > understand simple units of measure. Even Lightwave
> > understands everything from nanometers to
> kilometers.
> >
> > There's so much I love about XSI, and then there are
> > times when I have to wonder what Softimage was
> > thinking... "oh, they wont need to model in
> feet and
> > inches, or meters, or centimeters.. " Where's the
> > logic?
> >
> > Frustrated,
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> > On 3/24/06, RPS <kewboard24(at)gmail.com
> <mailto:kewboard24(at)gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > XSI unit is an arbitrary, relative value that can be
> > anything you want: a foot, 10 cm, or anything else..
> > Keep in mind anything outside 1000 unit range is
> > considered big.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > --
> > RPS
> > LiveToRig.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Jordi Bares <jordibares(at)the-mill.com <mailto:jordibares(at)the-mill.com>>
> The Mill
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