Standards For Avis In Secondlife?
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Kelli May
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12-19-2008 16:31
From: Conifer Dada Objects meant to be built to realistic RL scale but using SL metres tend to look a bit small measured against avatars of 'normal' proportions. I'm scaled to be 5'6", visually, in relation to other average sized humanoid avs. But if I measure myself against a height measurer I'm 6', thus PROVING  that the SL foot, and similarly the SL metre are smaller than RL ones!!! Either that or the height measurers are wrong! The SL metre is perfectly normal, but the avatars are far too big. After all, LL defined the world and it's scale. They gave us the avatar creation tools, and *we* (on average) set ourselves taller than is realistic for normal humans. The height measures, as is well documented, measure the bounding box of an avatar, not actual height. Any figures they generate for height are incorrect (roughly 5% too small), thus encouraging people to make their avs taller still.
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Butch Adzebills
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12-19-2008 16:48
If the sliders in Appearance, were shown as a unit of measurement, rather than 0-100%, getting the right proportions would be so much easier.
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Bree Giffen
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12-19-2008 17:14
While they are adding a unit of measurement to the avatar sliders LL could also set what is currently 1.25 meters into 1 meter so that we wouldn't have to change much in the world. All those 8 foot avatars would instantly be 6 foot avatars. All of the houses that are currently oversized would be normal sized.
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Imnotgoing Sideways
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12-19-2008 17:16
I have an 'eyeball reference' Scaled Height Bar rezzed as a copyable freebie in the forum hangout. Actually... I should take a snapshot of it and make it a store, Xstreet, and OnRez freebie too... Okay... Task for tonight. =^-^=
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-19-2008 17:34
"Standards For Avis In Secondlife?"
Their cars should be clean, well running, and the gas tanks should be full when you pick them up.
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Peggy Paperdoll
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12-19-2008 17:43
From: SuezanneC Baskerville "Standards For Avis In Secondlife?"
Their cars should be clean, well running, and the gas tanks should be full when you pick them up. Just who do you think we are? Hertz? |
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Elizabeth Barrett
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12-19-2008 19:42
From: Imnotgoing Sideways Standard female: 8ft tall. Breasts = 100 and completely anti-gravity. Oily skin a must, because you know true beauty never takes a shower. (^_^)
Standard male: 8ft 6in tall. Shoulders 4x the size of the waist. Arm circumference over length a must, so that people know you can't reach your pen0r to masturbate because sex gods don't need to touch themselves. (^_^)
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-19-2008 19:46
From: Bree Giffen While they are adding a unit of measurement to the avatar sliders LL could also set what is currently 1.25 meters into 1 meter so that we wouldn't have to change much in the world. The measurements in the avatar sliders have nothing to do with meters. |
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Bree Giffen
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12-19-2008 21:42
Yes, Butch was saying that LL should add measurements to the sliders and I was saying that while they are doing that they should also recalibrate what a meter is in SL.
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-20-2008 06:40
From: Bree Giffen Yes, Butch was saying that LL should add measurements to the sliders and I was saying that while they are doing that they should also recalibrate what a meter is in SL. There's no need to recalibrate the meter. If they add correct measurements to the sliders then either people will go "oh noes, I'm really 2.2 meters tall, that's crazy" or they'll go "oh wow, I'm really 2.2 meters tall, that's kewl". But what I was getting at is this: the problem is that NONE of the sliders set the absolute value of ANY measurement. If you set your body length to "long" you make yourself taller. If you set your body length to "short" you make yourself shorter. But how much taller or how much shorter depends on the values of other sliders. The best they could do would be to add a scale giving you the resulting heingt in a normal pose. |
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Kyrah Abattoir
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12-20-2008 06:42
They could probably put some kind of "scale" behind the avatar as you tweak it in appearance mode, i think it's possible to make a client side scale that clamp it's 0 value where your feets are standing and extend up.
That would be cool... like many other things :/
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-20-2008 06:53
From: Kyrah Abattoir They could probably put some kind of "scale" behind the avatar as you tweak it in appearance mode, i think it's possible to make a client side scale that clamp it's 0 value where your feets are standing and extend up. You can also make a prim one in-world.  |
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Isablan Neva
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12-20-2008 06:55
Instead of 0 to 100, we should name the slider adjustments Unusual to Hilarious.
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Colette Meiji
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12-20-2008 07:37
From: Peggy Paperdoll Just who do you think we are? Hertz? |
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-20-2008 08:52
Linden Labs thinks we're Enterprise, but looking at the quality of the avatar mesh I gotta say I feel more like Budget.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-20-2008 09:16
From: Argent Stonecutter Budget. Rent A Wreck . http://www.rent-a-wreck.com/. I keed, I keed.
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Kyrah Abattoir
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12-20-2008 19:46
From: Argent Stonecutter You can also make a prim one in-world. We are talking about joe the plumber wanting to make an avatar here. I know how to rez a prim and stretch it ty
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-20-2008 19:52
Maybe we should try having all our avatars look just alike and all have the same name.
Just for an hour.
Ok, maybe not.
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