I followed the two tutorials on scaling down an MSH and the animation, and I also added GeometryScale = -0.5 to the unit's ODF. The unit is an Acklay. In-game, however, it shows up normal size.

My acklay and acklaylz munge.bat: And my geo_inf_acklay.msh.option:

Is something out of place or missing?

can you make the acklay a negative size?
wouldn't it just be (0.5), not (-0.5) for half the normal size?

I'm pretty sure Fiddler is right (though as you followed the tutorials, you may be )

Oh. Hmm, that could very well be it. I followed the tutorials to scale up a Jawa, but this Acklay I tried to do from memory.

If you think about it, it has to be 0.5.
A -0.5 would give you a negative result and size cannot be negative so it would be 0.5 to get you half of the original size.

so in the option file it should be
-scale 0.5

and the munge would be
@call ..\munge_animation.bat "/keepframe0 /scale 0.5 /dest acklay.zaf" Sides\GEO

Another thing you may find is that it may get smaller but it will be above the ground, middle of body will be about middle of body on a normal sized one. many many minutes of frustration trying to make it not be that way, didn't find a solution, moved on to something else and let that frustate me instead.

FragMe! wrote:Another thing you may find is that it may get smaller but it will be above the ground, middle of body will be about middle of body on a normal sized one. many many minutes of frustration trying to make it not be that way, didn't find a solution, moved on to something else and let that frustate me instead.

You could always try hexediting the bone_root (or the scene root, whatever it is) to a lower position.

I think I saw a map (a beta of SotG v. WGO, maybe) in which a spider-sized Acklay was clear on the ground.

In any case, I'm only halving the size, so with the Acklay's long, thin legs it's hardly noticable.

In fact, I didn't know it did that until you told me.