Camera, Aim And Up - Scale Problem

[user_deleted]

Me again with cameras. It's camera hell this week.

I'm creating cameras in a scene that is in meters, not centimeters.
It works fine if I create a regular, standalone camera.
But if I create a camera that has aim and up controls, two things happen:

a) most important - the camera dolly, track, and other controls are IMPOSSIBLY FAST and cover massive distances in no time.
the camera "icon" (ie. the gizmo in the scene that looks like a camera) is tiiiiny and needs to be scaled up massively to be even visible.
c) the "up" node is stacked right onto the camera node, it has to be manually raised.

I assume it has something to do with scale but I can't figure it out.
I saw there is a "conversion unit" node (?) attached to an aim+up camera group, but fiddling with it doesn't change anything.

Please help... this makes things really painful.

[joojaa]

first never change maya units, maya is unitless, so dont go and change maya usnits to meters. It does not reflect A ANYTHING correct since all of mayas subsystems ignore physical uints anyway and treat cm as a unnaed unit. And as result even the dynamics engine thinks the name of that unnamed unit is cm.*

second you can click on the box next to dolly in the camera menu to adjust its sensitivity.

*Theres no benefit of this, the only subsystem that would ever be affacted of scale is exporters, even then most sane exporters can conform units to whatever you like them to be. So units are not important just as long as you know what the scale of the file was supposed to be. (yes i work with cad data all day long, units don't matter. They just matter to the lowest tier engineers who don't know what the hell they are doing anyway. Its just easier to lie that units matter than to fight this point, the programs dnt actually care.)

[user_deleted]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hell.
I changed all my scenes to meters based on ONE friend's recommendation. Why'd I do that? Why?

Ok, well I suppose I can switch back seamlessly in that case. will try.

I have noticed that in meters, everything is hell. Far clip planes, near clip planes, etc etc. It's a drag.