Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Free modelling sw that's good for architectural props?

grosporina opened this issue on Mar 06, 2014 · 47 posts


obm890 posted Fri, 07 March 2014 at 11:32 AM

Quote - You guys recommending Wings for Architectural stuff, how would you create an object with proportionate scale?  Let's say you created an object which needs a specific thickness relative to it's size.  For example, a box with an inside and outside of specific thickness.  You can add thickness with Wings, but how will you know if it's 3 inches or 5? 

I don't remember offhand what Wings internal units are but you could simply treat them as metres. The wings import/export dialogs are really comprehensive, allowing you to set default scaling factors, so it's easy to set them up so that a cube of 2 units high exported from wings arrives in poser as 2m high, and Vicky opened in Wings measures 1.8 units high (or however tall the's supposed to be). Then the distance of every modeling operation in wings can be controlled accurately by the numerical readout on screen and the distance between any 2 verts can be measured. I doubt you need to be much more accurate than that.

Quote - wouldn't rescaling the object to world coordinates in Poser later potentially distort your proportionate thickness?

The whole model scales proportionally, it can't distort if it was proportionally correct in wings.