mesh size

[LvGamer33]

If i make a building in maya or blender, size 30x30 lets say will it be the same size in SL when i upload it? How do i set the settings in blender or maya for it to be same as SL?

[Aquila Kytori]

hi

In Blender if you change the Units to Metric then 1 meter in Blender equal exactly 1 meter in SL.

How to change the Units ? Check out message number 5 here:  https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mesh/LOD-models-Blender-workflow/m-p/1897967#M19379

[Coby Foden]

1 meter in Blender = 1 meter in Second Life = 1 meter in real life

A meter is a meter everywhere.

(You might hear on occasions somebody claiming that it isn't true, but those people lack real knowledge how stuff works.)

[Gaia Clary]

For Blender you can keep with Blender units (default settings). The Collada exporter exports one blender unit as one meter. Of course you also can switch to another metric (as suggested). The Collada exporter will take care of this and use the other metric also for export. Now it is up to the Importer if it takes care of the metric settings (I never tested if the SL Importer supports other metrics than meter).

Please take care that your meshes have scale and rotation applied on Object level. Otherwise you may get surprises in SL.

[LvGamer33]

OH ok so each sqaure in blender is 1 meter.

[Coby Foden]

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LvGamer33 wrote:

OH ok so each sqaure in blender is 1 meter.

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Do you mean the grid squares? Then no - the size of those grids depends on how you are zoomed in or out. They don't stay fixed on one meter. You can easily see it by creating a cube, 2 m x 2 m x 2m for example, change to orthogonal view, then zoom in out and watch how the grid changes. Zoom close in and you can see smaller grid squares appearing. Zooming far out the grid square dimensions change again.