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    Scaling for FBX export is different?

    techworker1
    posted to: Object Scale and Pivot

    Most people must be using the path Blender => .blend => Unity.

    My preference is Blender => .fbx => Unity, which has additional issues. It's strongly advisable to:

    • Go to Scene tab and select "Units : Unit Presets : Centimeters"
    • Ensure that object scale is 1.0/1.0/1.0 as you say
    • Verify that object Dimensions are what you expect
    • Leave the default scaling "All Local" on FBX binary export panel

    If not, you can/must clean up a confusing mess in Unity ;) :/ . I spent a lot of time learning this the hard way.

    [I did watch the export/import in the Unity stream. I don't remember if it was mentioned there or not.]

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    • techworker1 replied

      If you change the units, be sure to check/adjust the camera clipping. Going to centimeters seems to set clipping "1mm/1m" which causes weird unexpected behavior. I set it to something more reasonable like 1mm/10m or so. (In fact I have an empty .blend file with all my preferred settings, which I copy to start each new project.)