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poser units vs DS units?

MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
edited December 1969 in The Commons

i don't see where to set it in DS.

if i'm making stuff in poser to be also used in DS, is it better to set my poser pref to 'poser units' or inches?


thanks :)

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  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,195
    edited December 1969

    I would say that inches would be the best unit of measure, simply for the fact that an inch in Poser is exactly the same as an inch in DS. I always use inches in Poser.

  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694
    edited December 1969

    Prior to P5 PNU or Poser Native Units were 8 feet. P5 and up PNU's were about 8.6 feet.

    You can change you units in the Poser general prefs. I believe DS defaults to centimeters but I could be wrong on this.

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,902
    edited December 1969

    If you make stuff in Poser for use in DS then just leave your measurements to the default.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    centimeters?!

    i remember there was sometimes an issue with props scattering with a preset file, wanted to make sure i wasn't setting up for that particular failure. :lol:

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804
    edited January 2014

    Items made in Poser using its real world units will be too small if imported using the Poser preset - if I did my sums right you'd want a scale factor of 26213% for import, which you can then save as a new "Poser Real World Units" presets for the OBJ importer.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,049
    edited December 1969

    The way I've been doing it for 6 years now is I export a Poser scale from DS and import that figure into every scene I create to get the scaling right. I model to that scale and its correct in Poser and DS

  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438
    edited January 2014

    Richard Haseltine said:
    Items made in Poser using its real world units will be too small if imported using the Poser preset - if I did my sums right you'd want a scale factor of 26213% for import, which you can then save as a new "Poser Real World Units" presets for the OBJ importer.

    Richard is correct. The actual scale factor is 262128%.

    From the Poser 6 readme.
    In previous Poser versions, Poser Native Units were sometimes handled inconsistently. In Poser 6, one Poser Native Unit always is the equivalent of 8.6 feet or 262.128 centimetre

    Centimeters in Poser are different from DS and 3d Max. 100cm in DS/3d Max = 107.50001% in Poser.

    mac

    Post edited by maclean on
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