So, I'm bringing in these textured meshes in fbx into Maya, mesh 1 is used to propagate scale and common coordinate system in building mesh 2 in Recap Photo. When I bring mesh 2 into the scene with mesh 1 I see it in the Outliner but not on the canvas. Suspecting it's there, simply out of scale or something, I recalled that from earlier work in Recap Photo that obj for a given mesh comes in scale 1, rotation 0, 0, 0 but same mesh in fbx comes in scale 100 with rotation -90, -90, 0. If somebody can explain the reasoning here, I'd love to understand it, as it surely provides a clue forward.
Anyway, knowing this, I tried scaling mesh 2 (an fbx, not obj) back from 100 to 1 and bam, I could see it. I then changed rotation back to 0, 0, 0 and even better, the alignment between both meshes looked dead on. Problem is, the transfrom was done on the mesh node, not the group node containing the mesh and all the cameras — need the cameras to scale and rotate along. If I change mesh 2 scale back to 100, rot back to -90, -90, 0 and then change its group node from scale 1 to .01, I don't see the mesh as expected. I know scaling the group affects the mesh because if I've already scaled and rotated the mesh, then scale the group a little to see it change, I do. I'm suspecting there's something going on with the pivot point, we know everything is there, just missing something in the transform of the group to mesh 2.
Why this huge scale fbx v. obj? It's this difference that's driving the issue, so thanks for any light shed on what's causing scale to jump to 100 rotation to -90 and how to deal with it in Maya to not lose my cameras when using the workaround.
Big thanks in advance,
Benjy
