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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?

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.

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 ?

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.