Hello,

I have an application for Poser that I am wondering if it's feasible to get done. I have video of an accident of someone slipping and falling inside a building. I have the mesh of where the accident happened and the camera location, target, roll, and focal length. I know exactly where the origin is and what the coordinate axes are in my CAD program, and I have the camera pose from that program relative to those coordinate axes.

Is there any tutorial for how I might accurately replicate the scene in Poser? I have been researching the scaling, and I now know that if I export my OBJ scene mesh in feet, I need to scale it down by 1/8.6*100% upon import into Poser. However, when the mesh comes in, the origin is not where I expect it to be. Furthermore, I don't know if I can precisely position the camera to my needs. Is there a way to display the inertial coordinate system that is used in Poser?

Is Poser viable for this type of task?

Thank you for reading.

There's an "Export Poser Cameras and Lights" script that saves Poser's current camera co-ordinates in XML data, and which is available free at ShareCG. That might help a little.

It might help if you could say what the CAD software is. Someone might know the needed scaling settings for a Poser import.

I’m using Rhino, but I guess my question is a little more fundamental. Is there a way that I can visualize the origin in Poser with the world coordinate system emanating out from that?

I made some progress today. I noticed that when you go to key camera positions, I can have direct control of the numbers there. But, I still don’t know where the default origin is.

Thank you.

Could you not just dab a visual dot, on the wall and floor in Rhino, to intersect the camera position? Then place another two virtual measuring-rods on each dot in Poser, and intersect these to precisely place the camera?

Dug up from the forums, something that might help: "[I find] this had already been talked on at C3D [the Vue forums]. At last, now I know how to scale Poser to OBJ to Rhino imports! Scale up from [to?] Poser size inside Rhino by x 24.384."