model scale?

[dennis]

Hello all,

 

Does someone knows the exact modeling scale? because I bought a set of models on: dexsoft-games. and I think they are a bit too large.

so what's the scale?

 

regards,

[paramecij]

I think most people here use 1 unit = 1 meter .. it's not hardcoded anywhere (but you'd want to change the default cull and lod ranges) so you could scale everything else to dexsoft scale I think.. but since i'm from europe I've never used anything other than meters so this scale seems natural to me

[dennis]

I think most people here use 1 unit = 1 meter .. it's not hardcoded anywhere (but you'd want to change the default cull and lod ranges) so you could scale everything else to dexsoft scale I think.. but since i'm from europe I've never used anything other than meters so this scale seems natural to me

 

I'm from europe too, but normaly using (in game style) pixels. because everything is based on it.

thanks for the help

[Canardia]

The latest experience is that even 1 unit = 1 meter is too big, because it makes problems with LE2's single shadowmap technology, and also the 32-bit float accuracy. It's better to use even smaller scales. LE3 will have per-entity shadowmaps, but it still uses only 32-bit floats, so you still need to keep things small.

 

64-bit floats are faster than 32-bit floats when used directly (for example in loops), but 32-bit floats are faster when copied in memory a lot. With decent C++ programming however, no copying should be needed, as everything should be done with const references.