Measuring my avatars height

Suddenly I look small against others, now it could be all these people are really too big and 7 or 8 feet tall!
A while back I set my height to 5 foot 10 inch as a tall girl at a machine in a shopping Mall which measures avatar heights.
Now I wish to recheck but have lost the landmark and can't remember Mall/shop.
Can you help me find one of these machines?
Thanks
June

I found one last night at pier@pier island: PIER @ PIER ISLAND, PIER (98, 138, 23)

You're right. Most of those avatars are 7 and 8 feet tall. I'm pretty sure some of that has to do with being unaware of how tall they are - note my signature below.

The max hight for an Av seems to be 7' 7" without extentions. I should know, I was trying to make a 8' 5" natural AV, the closest I could get was 7' 7" with his boots on. :|

I was speaking in generalities. Over 7' is preeeetty tall.

I went to Pier and that machine reports me, with no shoes, as 5ft 11ins approx. 1.793mtrs.
So looks like I not changed but all the people I've been around are the oversized ones.
Thanks
June

I think it has to do with Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, somehow...

Agreed. I dated a 6'9" guy in RL, and he was freaky tall.

Perhaps SL residents should start a basketball league.

I tried the one at the pier and I'm 6' 4" which is more exceptable in RL terms lol

The only accurate way to measure your avatar is to make a phantom, translucent prim, stand in the middle and adjust the prim until you figure your height.

I was surprised to find out how inaccurate the height detectors are. I have several and I get several different heights for each one used, and none of them are even close to the Prim method.

I am 5’10” in game or 1.778 meters and I’m sticking to it

I tried the prim method too. I'm 6'1". The tallest height I could make was 8'3" and the shortest was 4'5" with the base avatar. I tried adjusting my avatar down to about 5'10" or so but I couldn't keep my body shape the same... so back to 6'2" which is average/small compared to most avatars I meet.

I've sent June Oh a Freebie Hight detector. It's a fairly Common Freebie.

Angel.

There is also a height detector in a shop at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jsindo/16/66/66.

Height detector scripts work using a function called llGetAgentSize which returns the avatars bounding box. This is not the exact avatar height, but should be close. The only exact way of measuring would be the prim method mentioned before.

Height detectors report the height of your eyes, because the LSL code for the height detection is what is used to deretmine camera height in mouselook.

Most people therefore set what they think is the height to the top of their head, and actually get 6 to 8 inches taller, to scale.

If people adjust to what "seems right visually", it is even worse, which is why so many avatars average close to or even over 7 feet tall.

Measuring yourself against a prim is the only accurate measuring method.

Wow, I just tried the prim method. My shorter av is 6'8" with hair!

Strangely, my supermodel alt is deliberately as tall as I could make her, but she is only 7'2". She keeps her head shaved, so she doesn't get the extra height from hair, but that's still a far cry from 8'3". I did measure her barefoot... do adding av heels make you taller?

I want to make my regular, shorter av more realistic, but there is the problem of furniture. Even at 6'8", she looks like a tiny little elf when lying down on most beds. I finally got some furniture with good proportions for her current size, but shrinking down will definitely leave her looking like Edith Ann.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBO0fr1Ui4

I tend to prefer places that have scaled down buildings and furniture. Not only does it work better with my 5'8" avatar, but I tend to find that places that attempt to match real life scale are interested in putting a lot of effort into detail in general; it tends to mean the sims are higher quality.

Not always of course, but it has been a pretty effective generality.

I also don't buy furniture that can't be resized. I have to resize everything, though an advantage for regular sized avatars and furniture is that your average small home becomes much more spacious.

Yes adding linden shoes set to max heel and max platform height gets you to 8'3". Oh and I rechecked and I'm actually about 6'8" with hair too!

The whole height/scale thing just confuses me. When I started doing SL I purposely made myself as tall as possible for reasons that don't apply anymore so I eventually shrunk myself down some. I've now been building things for myself and generally scale them so they fit me--house, furniture, etc. Then one day I was chatting with my landlord and realized I looked freakishly tall next to him. I only hang out with one other av regularly and we're about the same size. I made a mental note to scale down some more but haven't gotten around to it. Then one day I was in a hair store (don't ask) and realized I didn't even come up to the shoulder of the guy next to me. Crazy! I'd be curious to see what other avs look like sitting on my furniture.

For me, this is one of the main reasons I think we need a quick and handy way to know our avatar size. I'm not against 8' avatars, I'm against the confusion people have when they don't know they have an 8' avatar.

Some folks actually DO want to scale things consistently, and it's hard when you just try to go with visual comparison.

Besides, it seems to me that there are people who really want their super tall avatars to be super tall; people playing giant type folk and the like. If the generic height with people who don't even care about their height is at maximum, the tall folks don't get to be considered tall the way they'd prefer. Lately I've heard them asking for the slider to go even higher so they can get a 'tall' avatar; of course that would only result in the default going up as well, just like it has already.

I really don't see the harm in letting people know where they 'stand' in the scale of things. The responses from LL seem to indicate that they think it would be detrimental, which is really weird considering the detrimental effects of not doing it lately.

Lol, most female avs in sl have made themselves very tall and even become giants with their oversized super heels. As a male avatar you can hardly get on the same height level, even with height set to 100%.