POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Egg : Re: Egg Server Time
13 Jul 2025 05:01:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Egg  
From: clipka
Date: 2 May 2017 14:52:12
Message: <5908d55c@news.povray.org>
Am 01.05.2017 um 14:06 schrieb Stephen:
> On 5/1/2017 12:11 PM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 1-5-2017 12:08, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 5/1/2017 7:50 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am a bit wary about the mm_per_unit and prefer not to touch it too
>>>> much, especially if different objects have different scales.
>>>
>>> Yes Clipka has put the fear of god into us. :-)
>>> I suppose it depends what you intend by scaling the models.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, yes. Take my image as example, the dragon is scaled 0.01, the
>> egg 0.25, the cube is not scaled, and the floor 0.50. It seems best to
>> use a standard mm_per_unit and change translucency as needed.
>>
> 
> My understanding is that the mm_per_unit is the world/scene scale

Indeed.

Also, I might take the opportunity to re-iterate that it is not an SSLT
setting /per se/. It only just so happens that SSLT is currently the
only feature that makes use of it.


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