[casey]

I was wondering if someone could add a line of code to the MAXWell MAX plug-in to automatically determine the proper conversion ratio for MAX's units to MAXWell's units. It's really simple - in the MAX SDK, you just make one C++ call and you get back the proper floating point scale for the scene if the user has used real-world units of any kind in MAX:

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GetMasterScale(UNITS_METERS);

Of course it's always good to have a user-settable constant like it is currently, but it would be nice if you could just click a button that would automatically set it to this value, since it is always correct if the user has used real-world units to begin with. And also, if it defaulted to using this value, most user's scenes would "just work" and they'd never have to think about the rescaling constant.

- Casey

[casey]

Someone asked me in a private message:

Since the C++ calls can be made in the SDK, can you implement this
via Maxscript?

Answer: I'm not certain. It could be that this would do it:

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UnitsPerMeter = 1.0 / (units.decodeValue "1m");

But I haven't tested it. It seemed to give reasonable results for my default units setup.

- Casey