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I worked with some people on a C4D forum and came to the conclusion that something was getting lost in the import export process while using the 3DS format.

When I export to the OBJ format everything is fine. Unfortunatly I have to do objects idividualy that way and lose the material information. But it works so that'll do.

Thanks headwax thats exactly what I was looking for.

and.. is that a Connor MacLeod avatar you got there? nice.

I wonder if hitting reset visuals will trigger an update.

Im having a strange problem with face selection of one of my objects in a set im building. I was hoping one of you could take a look at it for me and help me out.

I left the offending object grey so it stands out.

One side of the wall makes up a small rectangular room the other side makes up a larger area which is actual 2 rooms, a bedroom and a bathroom. If you rotate the viewport so that you are looking from the rectangular room toward the bed/bathroom and try to select the wall face it wont let you. It acts as if the wall isnt even there and selects a face from another object directly in fornt of it where you click.

The only way to select it is to rotate the viewport so you can click on teh face in an area where there are no other objects behind it. Such as the hole for the sliding glass door in the bedroom. Its easy to rotate it as such in wireframe mode.

I should point out that each wall is an individual object created from a parametric shape and converted into a mesh. None of the wall objects have been joined so they are able to be moved and removed individualy. Is it ok to do that?

Any insight into my face selection problem would be a big help. Thanks.

Kubajzz: You pretty much recreated what I did and got the same results, however the final step which was what made a difference was in the larger scale mode add a duplicate of one of those objects at normal scale and place it directly in front of the camera so it appears large. then select all objects and rescale them all back down at the same time. Now that object will appear very tiny no matter where you place it. This may just be due to the increased range in the field of view  for wher you can place objects. Maybe I was just able to bring it closer to the camera. But that itself is a difference. then again who knows, maybe it was just a fluke. It also might have to do with what ensoniqe said about altering hte znear. I never did that.

ENSONIQ5 : If I scale my object first, then place child objects such as the vehicles light beams as child objects will it work then?

actualy I ran a 3rd test after those first 2. I added another figure into the large set but did not scale iut up, i placed it directly in front of the camera and it looked normal size, but when i dragged it in position with the larger objects got increasingly smaller. I then selected all 4 objects now, the room, the 2 large objects and the nomal sized objects, and I scaled everything back down to a somewhat normal size, again re-aligned everything, this time the new object looked tiny no matter where i placed it because it was tiny in relation to the camera. Also using the giant sized scale allows you to place the camera in positions and angles you could never get in a normal scale, so there is a difference. I just wanted to know what the normal scale was for a starting point.

So the camera size does matter. I will try out your ratio there Tanzim. Thanks for the help.

Im starting to get ready to make my scenes and I want to know what scale is.

I know you can re-scale objects inside scene mode and ill be doing that for some objects, but I want my building interiors to be correct that way I have a reference to scale other objects to.

I noticed you can use the scale tool on the camera but it doesnt seem to do anything accept alter the size of the icon. The green lines that show you the field of view never change size so that leads me to belieove that there is a default fixed scale for the world in scene mode. Now you can alter the FOV angle but thats not the same thing as resizing the box itself.

Ive been experimenting trying to figure out what it is. I made a 10' X 10' room using a 1 unit  = 1 inch in onject mode but that seems too small.

Does anyone know what it is?

Im a little confused as to how they work still.  Other then the fact that it adds a bunch of keyframes that will then be tied to the original sequence is there any cohesivness to them?

I dont seem to be able to delete an entire seuqence at once. Doesnt seem to be any list of sequences ive added anywhere. And sometimes when I delete some of the dots in the timeline it doesnt seem to free up that space to add other sequences. is there a trick to deleting a sequence form a scene, or a portion of one.

Or how bout this situation, i added the sequence in the wrong frame and now need to shift the whole thing up one or back one. Can I do that?