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Meters 99% of the time (exteriors). Display units set to whatever suits me, but considering you can just type anything into max's spinners regardless of units, it does not matter much.
It just depends on what you are working on. Building assets, I set the units to whatever suits it (usually cm, and never mm).
The scene file where everything is assembled is then most likely set to meters.
Scaling of certain maps is the only issue, but it seems less of a problem these days. Not sure if its max 2014 thats fixed a few of these issues, or if plugin devs are getting better at defining sizes properly......
Back in the days where I did tons of pack shots etc, I usually worked in cm.
What really irks me is architects thinking that working in mm is more "precise", as if typing 450000mm is more precise than 450m. Talk about wasting floating point precision...
It just depends on what you are working on. Building assets, I set the units to whatever suits it (usually cm, and never mm).
The scene file where everything is assembled is then most likely set to meters.
Scaling of certain maps is the only issue, but it seems less of a problem these days. Not sure if its max 2014 thats fixed a few of these issues, or if plugin devs are getting better at defining sizes properly......
Back in the days where I did tons of pack shots etc, I usually worked in cm.
What really irks me is architects thinking that working in mm is more "precise", as if typing 450000mm is more precise than 450m. Talk about wasting floating point precision...
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