[Release] Level Design Scale Reference

[Admin-K9Gaming]

Hello Everyone,

I saw people asking for scale references as they wish to do the Level Designs in Max or Maya and they dun want to end up with off-scale assets.

So, i release this to my friends here at UDK Community. Please remember, I am not the original author of the attached File. Credits goes to the original author.

Download Here (http://www.k9gaming.net/LevelDesign/Level_Design_Scale.fbx)

Thanks.

Admin~K9Gaming.

[philnolan3d]

Here is the LightWave 3D version of that file. This is just altered so of course I cannot take any credit.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3083393/LW_to_UDK_scale.zip

[Plastik]

What about Softimage XSI?

[Crozz]

Thanks! This will come in handy.

[fallingbrickwork]

Yes, many thanks for this. I'm a modo man, so i'm hoping the fbx will play nicely for me as I have had to scale up all my previously made models by 3000% to roughly fit in with things :eek: (that said, it's probably me miss-setting gameunits etc)

Regards,
Matt.

[philnolan3d]

Yes, many thanks for this. I'm a modo man, so i'm hoping the fbx will play nicely for me

The one I attached is an .LWO file so you should be able to load it fine in modo.

[LennardF1989]

Here's a small tutorial made by one of my fellow teammembers.



For starters, lets go over how to set up a Maya Scene so that it matches the units of the Unreal Engine.

First go to Window -> Settings/Preferances -> Preferance and then Settings on the left of the box that popped up. In settings and under Working Units and next to where it says Linear there should be a drop-down box. Make sure this box is set ot Centimeters. Save the changes

Next go to Display -> Grid Options and set up the grid to be displayed as follows;

Length and Width: 1024
Grid lines Every: 128
Subdivisions: 8

Save changes.

Now you might need to change the camera options. In a viewport, select View -> Select Camera and then press ctrl + A to bring up the camera's properties. Here you will need to change the Far Clip Plane to some insane number just to be safe. I usually just type an extra 4 or 5 0s, so it will be 10000000.00.


Should also apply to other 3D tools.

[Admin-K9Gaming]

Nice to see its been helpful to the community :)

[lantic]

does this belong in the stdplugins folder for 3ds max?

[Admin-K9Gaming]

Nope, its just a 3D reference Model. Can be used with any 3D Suite that support FBX, or you can DL, any of the converted formats provided by our friends in this thread :)

[lantic]

Ahhh okay, Thanks :)

[tatts]

A cubic unit in pretty much all 3D apps is the same. A character in UDK is about 80 units tall. if we assume that this character is 6 ft tall it would mean that 16 units = 1 ft breaking it down to one unit would be 3/4 of an inch. So in your 3d app if you have made a humanoid character, all you should need to worry about is that the character is about 80 units tall for it to match the character size in UDK. A wall 128 units in height would be 8 ft. Pretty simple to remember.

[VictoryX]

I tried your lightwave file opened it up, put everything on the same layer, tripled the geometry and exported as a Collada (.dae) file. When i imported into UDK it came in extremely small. Am I missing something here?

[BlackSnowz]

The link to the level design scale reference is down, would you mind reuploading it?

Thanks in advance :)

[seenooh]

Here is the LightWave 3D version of that file. This is just altered so of course I cannot take any credit.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3083393/LW_to_UDK_scale.zip
Hello Phil, just curious, do you use the FBX format to export from Lightwave to UDK? Did you face any trouble with smoothing groups and such?