Babylon Coordinate Unit

[reddozen]

What is the unit of measure for the coordinate system in Babylon? I'm trying to convert and scale from unreal engine, and I know that 16uu = 1ft.

[GameMonetize]

There is no unit of measure per se. Once you created a mesh (let's say a box), you determine your own unit because every mesh is relative to others

 

Do you see what I mean?

[reddozen]

I do, but I'm not sure how I can properly convert a scene from one engine to another without being able to convert between the units because scale and location will be altered.

 

1ft,1ft,1ft is much different from 1m,1m,1m

 

Overall, my goal is to combine several unreal scenes into a single Babylon scene. I want to be able to define a local coordinate systems within the bounding boxes of the terrain surfaces so I'm not working with huge global positions, and I can more easily compartmentalize the huge scene. I doubt there's a current way to do this, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Either way, my first step is to be able to convert from unreal to Babylon. We're currently exporting to an OBJ file for the raw models, but then cloning everything as needed to save memory since some objects are repeated 20~30 times.

[GameMonetize]

you can for instance consider that your reference is 1unit=1m for babylon. With this reference, you can scale all the imported scene

[reddozen]

I'll give this a try tonight. Pulling my hair out trying to get this scene to behave without duplicating all the map objects as "unique" items and wasting resources.

[GameMonetize]

Why do you need to duplicate objects?

[reddozen]

the same tree for example is used 5~6 times on the map, and some training dummies are used about 10 times. Those are just a couple examples. These are pretty big scenes with around 1000 items per map.

[GameMonetize]

You could use the mesh.clone() function to avoid duplicating resources

[reddozen]

That's what I'm using, and that's why i'm having a hard time because I have to make sure the coordinates all line up. I could obviously bake all the items and their duplicates into the OBJ files to make things easier, but I don't want to waste the resources.

[GameMonetize]

Agree

[yuccai]

Hello,

 

If we consider that 1 unit = 1 meter, is it coherent with the physic engine and the light calculation?

 

Thanks

[yuccai]

For instance in Blender we can set the modeling unit to meters, if we export the scene to Babylon, will the calculations be ok?

[Dad72]

Babylon has no unit of measure. The unit are what you want

[gwenael]

Hello,

 

If we consider that 1 unit = 1 meter, is it coherent with the physic engine and the light calculation?

 

Thanks

 

For physics engine you may want to be careful with gravity value since it must be coherent with your unit. 9.81 is correct if your unit is meter otherwise you have to convert 9.81 to the right value. If 1 unit = 1 cm then gravity should be set to 981.