lightwave export and units

 From:  Michael Gibson
1042.2 In reply to 1042.1 
Hi Nathan, you're not doing anything wrong.

The LWO file format doesn't have any setting within it for what unit system the file uses, at least none that Newtek has documented.

So apparently the convention is that the LWO file should always be in meters.

Right now MoI does not do any kind of scaling when it writes the LWO file, it just write out your data directly, like a coordinate of 0,5,0 is just written out as 0,5,0 regardless of what units you are currently using in MoI.

I guess that I should scale your objects when you write out the LWO file so that the final stored number is in meters. But I'm a little bit worried to make this change enabled by default, since it may give unexpected results to some people like if you open an IGES file that was in inches and then export that to LWO the scaled result will be rather small...

So I'm thinking that maybe I can make this unit scaling an optional thing that you can enable by editing a flag in the moi.ini file, does that sound ok?

- Michael