fighting scales.. 3dsmax < > realflow

[marnix@rckmn.nl]

Okay.. somehow I'm a little lost.

I have a test scene in realflow.. quite simple. A plane and a sphere falling down.
Both realflow objects. The plane has scale 10 and the sphere scale 5

according to the help these scale values should be meters.. however.. my sphere is definitely smaller then 5 meters.
In the beginning I didn't really care much (was just testing some stuff) so I ignored it.

Now I imported a plane (and sphere) from max and it doesn't make any relation / sense.
The Max plane of 1 meter in size is equal to the RF plane with a scale of 10 ?

The Geo scale settings in realflow are 1
The Units in Max are set to cm and displayed in Meter.
So I expected there might be a factor 100 error.. but factor 10 I don't get.

Attached a screenshot.
The RF & Max planes line up as mentioned above.
The smaller sphere is the RF sphere at scale 5
The top, bigger sphere is a Max sphere with a radius of 10 cm so 20cm in total width..

I'm probably missing something stupid but can't seem to find it
Any one able to enlighten me?

[LuisMiguel]

Hi Marnix,

The scale relation between 3dsmax or Maya which is working with is RealFlow is

1cm (in 3dsmax or Maya) = 1 meter in RealFlow.

In addition, each grid square in RealFlow is like 1 meter, so every local object you add in RealFlow, a sphere example, will have a diameter of 1 meter. You can export that sphere and import it into 3dsmax and you'll know what is the relation of scale between RealFlow and 3dsmax more easy.

I hope it helps.

luisM.

[marnix@rckmn.nl]

ok, thanks!

when reading the general FAQ to double check I found this line " Most of the connectivity plugins provide settings for compensating scale differences"
maybe good to have there a list on which connectivity plugins do and do not compensate the scale differences ?

[LuisMiguel]

Hi,

I think it is talking about if you send an object with 1 cm in 3dsmax, in RF it would be like 1 meter. But if you import the geometry again in 3dsmax exported from RealFlow, it should be 1 cm again because the plugin translates the scale depending on the platform you are importing the geometry again.

luisM.