Quote - I don't really understand the discussion - whether poser calls V4 194cm or 181cm is irrelevant - to fit it nicely in the poser scaling universe, you just scale the figure to match the unit.

The only place where it matters is in things like furniture, architecture and vehicles. But you can scale those as well and you have to do some sort of scaling for most props anyway since most of them vary in the actual scale they are imported in poser.

Scaling an entire set of props proportionally is not difficult - parent them to a null figure and scale the figure. (or use the grouping prop in P9)

Just my 2 cents

 

You're right up to a point.  The problems begin when several different props/people are made to several different scales.  Granted it's not the end of the world but it's still a fart about when you have to rescale stuff.  Far better for us to have a standard and stick to it, or at least to know when - and by how much - some things deviate from that standard.

You'll also run into problems when mixing different figures, since any realistically scaled stuff which looks ok when using pre V4 figures will likely look tiny when V4 is in the scene.  Or, V4 will tower over everything and everyone. 

Case in point - Mask-Da's guitars.  The new versions he makes now are fractionally smaller than his previous models.  Without knowing what "yardstick" to use there's no real way of knowing which are the correctly scaled ones, if any.  Fortunately, I know what size a Gibson Les Paul should be so I could always test things out to find which works best in my scenes.

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