FVerbaas posted at 5:43AM Tue, 01 June 2021 - #4420251

Easiest is to use Poser's measurement tool. The measurements returned are based on 1 Poser Native Unit(PNU) is 8.6 ft., so about 2.62 m. For some reason many models available are made assuming 1 unit is 8ft. This explains the confusion.

It's even more complicated than that. Originally, Poser didn't have a scale. It had Poser Native Units, but no explanation of what that meant in real life. The only clue was a mention in the manual that Dork was about 6' tall. His height was .75 PNUs. That made 1 PNU=8'. A lot of content creators adopted that scale, including DAZ.

Poser didn't come out with an official scale until...Poser 6, I think it was. They decided 1 PNU=8.6 feet. (Why, Curious Labs, why?) By then, the 1 PNU=8' scale was well-entrenched. DAZ did not change their scale, which is why Vicky seems like an Amazon by the official Poser scale. 1 PNU=8' in DAZ-land to this day.

Meanwhile, Dr. Geep (is he still around?), who wrote a lot of tutorials and helped a lot of newbies back in the day, decided 1 PNU= 96" and 1 PNU=103.2" were both too awkward to deal with, and created his own scale, of 1 PNU=100", which a lot of content creators adopted, since it made the math easy and wasn't too far off either the Poser scale or the DAZ scale.