The fact that Vue 9 imports Poser files at a different size from Vue 8 has been bugging me for a while, so I decided to do something about it. I figured if I could really find out what is going on, I would know the reason for the discrepancy.

 I was right.

It’s actually very simple. Vue 9 is right. Vue 8 is wrong. Therefore, the changes in Vue 9’s import were made to fix what was wrong with Vue 8’s import. It makes sense, actually. It’s just that nobody at E-On talks about it.

How did I find out? Well, I decided to first find out how far off Vue imports (both 8 and 9) were from Poser’s internal measurements. To do this, loaded the Poser cube primitive…Poser 7, by the way…and scaled it to be exactly 10 Poser inches. This is a little more complicated than is sounds, because while Poser measures position in units (inches, feet, meters, cm, mm, etc.) it only measures scale as a percentage of the object’s original size, without having any way of knowing what that size was. I got around that by copying the cube and moving the copy up the Y axis exactly 10 inches. Then, using the front camera, I zoomed into the bottom of the copy as close as Poser allows. I changed the display to “outline” in order to have a clear view of the edges of the cubes. I then scaled the original cube until its top perfectly matched the bottom of the copy cube. That meant the original cube was now exactly 10 inches from ground to top. I deleted the copy cube and saved the scene.

Next I imported the scene into Vue 8 and went to object scale to check its size. The 10 inch cube had imported into Vue 8 as 8.965 inches, meaning Vue 8 had reduced the import to 89.65% of its original size.

I followed this by importing the same file into Vue 9. Low and behold, the 10 inch cube imported as…a 10 inch cube! I repeated this with a 1 meter cube just to make sure it worked properly with other scales of measurement. Sure enough, it loaded as a 1 meter cube into Vue 9.

This all means, of course, that Poser imports into Vue 9 are exactly to scale with the way the models are in Poser. This means, also, that you can use Vue 9 to quickly check the dimensions of any poser object.

Just thought you might like to know.

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