Dimensions of a Plane & Plane Thickness

poorman_65

I have created a plane for street and sidewalks. I also have create the map to draw everything, but i keep having to go back and forth to get it to look right because the dimesntions of my map and the Plane are not the same.

1) How can I find out the dimensions of a Plane?

2) Is there a way in DAZ Studio to give the Plane a Thickness, for example to make the street 4 inches high?

Richard Haseltine

1) doesn't really make sense - the plane fills the UV square, meaning any map will precisely fill it. If you want your map to match the proportions of the plane note the scales, if you want the plane to match a map divide the width by the height and use that as the X scale (multiply by 100 since scale is in percent).

2) Use a cube rather than a plane.

poorman_65

Thanks for the info

The map does fill the plane precisely as you say. The issue I was having was that I am placing lines along the road for parking spaces and the stretching of the map makes the lines different than I intended.

I think I understand what you are saying about using the Scaling values. That makes sense. I'll give that a try.

And also thanks for suggesting the "Cube". It seems obvious now. This is my first shot at create my own Geometries, so I am still trying to get my head around it.

SixDs

I assume that you are referring to real world dimensions. There is nothing built in to DAZ Studio that will provide that, but there are ways to do. There is the Measure Metrics utility available in the DAZ Store that provides such functionality, but at a price. Alternatively, there are a number of guides available for download from various Freebie sites that basically provide different kinds or "rulers" for measuring objects in a scene. Here are some that you can look at:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/69559/favorite/21/DAZ-Studio/Measuring-Wall

http://www.krown-products.net/meshworks/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=16&lid=7

There may be others.

Richard Haseltine

SixDs said:

I assume that you are referring to real world dimensions. There is nothing built in to DAZ Studio that will provide that, but there are ways to do. There is the Measure Metrics utility available in the DAZ Store that provides such functionality, but at a price. Alternatively, there are a number of guides available for download from various Freebie sites that basically provide different kinds or "rulers" for measuring objects in a scene. Here are some that you can look at:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/69559/favorite/21/DAZ-Studio/Measuring-Wall

http://www.krown-products.net/meshworks/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=16&lid=7

There may be others.

Well, for the plane and the cube if you create them at 1m in the dialogue then the scale parameters can be read as cm (as long as you leave the overall scale alone).