# Changing the world scale

**URL:** <https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/changing-the-world-scale/1219>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [January 7, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/changing-the-world-scale/1219 "2022-01-07T16:35:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Santiago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Aaron\_Santiago](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/Aaron_Santiago)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/changing-the-world-scale/1219/1 "2022-01-07T16:35:11Z")

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> [@Change the whole scene/camera scale - possible?](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/change-the-whole-scene-camera-scale-possible/564/4):
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> Hi Andrew, we’ve logged your feature request. Thank you for the suggestion!

Working with small real life objects is difficult in Unity, it would be much nicer if we could map 1 unit to 1cm and vice versa

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**Author:** ![Moranda\_Nalls1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Moranda\_Nalls1](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/Moranda_Nalls1)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/changing-the-world-scale/1219/2 "2022-01-10T22:58:13Z")

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Hi Aaron, sounds great. Thank you for your feedback. Please check out these tutorials on basic placement and detecting images: [https://lightship.dev/docs/basic\_placement\_tutorial.html#autotoc\_md100](https://lightship.dev/docs/basic_placement_tutorial.html#autotoc_md100) and [https://lightship.dev/docs/detecting\_images.html#autotoc\_md181](https://lightship.dev/docs/detecting_images.html#autotoc_md181). I hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![Maverick\_Niantic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Maverick\_Niantic](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/Maverick_Niantic)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/changing-the-world-scale/1219/3 "2026-03-05T23:48:01Z")

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