Camera settings for very large Models

Camera settings for very large Models#29230

By 3D Mark - Tue May 31, 2005 11:52 am

- Tue May 31, 2005 11:52 am #29230

I have been making a 3D Model in Maya 6 For a House that I am going to build. I imported the AutoCAD drawing which was drawn in millimeters and lofted and created the model. However in order to see the model I had to change the far clip plane to 1000000, This worked well in the maya camera, but I couldnt get it to work for the Maxwell camera.

This creates the problem of not seeing the model in the maxwell camera and making rendering impossible! I tried grouping the model and scaling it by 0.001 but the geometry went very wrong which I think was partly due to bolleamed polygons in the model.

How Can I get the Maxwell camera to view my very large model?

#29663

By deri - Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:48 am

- Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:48 am #29663

Hi
I've just done a two block architectural model some 120m long - if you export from AutoCAD in centimetres (or scale your group by 0.01) and set the far clip plane to 100,000 in Maxwell camera attributes it should work OK (does on mine). Maya seems to like working in Cm.
Hope it helps
Deri