Desiderius opened this issue on Mar 01, 2009 ยท 45 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 20 March 2009 at 9:45 AM
Heheh. You don't give up easily.
Let me be more clear by setting up a specific scenario.
The user is trying to build a wall panel prop to go with the P.I.C.K. construction kit to build indoor scenes. That kit is built so that every component is an easy multiple of a Poser meter. By snapping together wall units, window units, corner units, door units, etc. you can build a very beautiful room in a few minutes. (And there are Python tools to accelerate that, too.)
Now every one of these components is 1 Poser meter wide. The user is trying to model a crown molding that he can parent to these units to make a very nice looking joint between the ceiling and the wall. If these pieces are to fit together accurately, they must be 1 Poser meter in width.
Now the user successfully constructs his crown molding prop and exports it such that its width is precisely 1 OBJ unit. Upon importing it, its width will be 1 PNU. He needs it to match the wall units which are 1 Poser meter in width.
So he needs to "scale" the prop to some specific value. He must calculate what that scale should be, so that after scaling the prop, its width matches the wall unit exactly.
So there is some conversion required here, involving something. I believe that the derivation of the corect scale value will have nothing to do with DGS. But you bring it up again and again as if it does. I didn't see desiderius ever ask for how to transfer a 1 meter DGS cube from his modeler to Poser. I saw a request for a 1 meter cube. The modeler has a definition relating a meter to OBJ units. Poser has a definition releting a meter to OBJ units. I'm not aware that DGS is involved in either of those defintiions.
Is there something I'm not seeing here, some calculation where in this process of importing the crown molding, I need to consult the DGS scale?
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