Avatar size ?

My avatar is on the petite side of the scale, I think around 50 on the slider. What would that be IRL?

I have also discovered that the animations and poses with other avatars often do not line up or look quite right and I am wondering if there is a standard size that animators use for a model when creating them and if they can be altered.

I really don't want to change my shape. But it has become a bit annoyong.

I saw an inworld tool that will measure you. It's to the right when you enter into the Athena disco (search for "Athena", places). You can even buy a copy of it for 0 L$. It reports back in French, anyway.

As far as I know poseballs are based on someone's hip. When I place them at home I do that accordingly with my height. Avatars more or less tall than me could not look right.

The hieght slider is also affected by legs, torso, head, etc, so taking a number from it and traslating it to feet (or meters) is not really possible without all factors.

Seach your inventory for "Height Detector". This is an item in your Library folder that will tell you your height (in feet and inches). Jsut rez it on the groud and click it.

Cheers
~Jessy

Oh my! Do you mean I had such a thing in my inventory since the beginning?

Thanks Jessy and Samantha I will check it out once I can get back in

Yes, it's rather funny how tall people are in SL. From my time on SL, it appears that most avies are well over 6 ft tall, and lots of things are built in that proportion (like furniture, doors, etc). It's just interesting how out of proportion that is with RL... guess we all want to be taller.

The animation files themselves can't be altered, but if you have mod perms on the poseballs then you can at least adjust the overall position of the pose so it lines up better.

I don't know the exact heights off the top of my head, but I tend to use shapes that are maybe two-thirds/three-quarters of the maximum, with the female slightly shorter than the male. Since most people make their avatars tall, and many really tall, this seems to work out well, plus I design my animations so that they can shift up or down somewhat and still look good. Still, there's definitely a limit to how much you can fudge it and it still looks good.

Actually, I wonder how many folks just don't realize how tall they are. I wanted my av to be about 5'8" and just assumed that the maximum half of the slider would reflect average heights for tall people. I was thoroughly surprised when I found a height detector in world and learned that I was over 6'!

And there's one in our library?! Thank you so much for that -- it will make adjustments much easier in the future.

As a somewhat shorter avatar (I came out at 5'7" according to the height detector) everything is oriented around being as tall as possible, well over 6' or its a kids animation based on being as small as possible.

I just put up with it.

This is probably the case with a lot of people. The only way to tell how tall your av is "RL", assuming you don't know about the thing in the Library (which I sure didn't) would be to compare yourself to an object in-world. But how tall is that object? Who knows, really! Sure, my av might look proportianate against a doorway, but how the heck tall is that doorway?? I know when I created my av and initially adjusted her height, I was standing alone on the spot where I initially rezzed. Um... NO buildings or other objects really to compare myself against.

Keep in mind, also, that we are trained from birth to look at ads with super-abnormally tall/thin fashion models and consider them "beautiful"... so I'm sure our subconscious concept of beautiful plays a role in the average elongated avatar.

I didn't think of height as much as set it to body proportions...

So that ended up being 75 when all was said and done. I find myself slightly taller than most other women, but not too much (many are at 65 maybe?) Maybe half a head height? Most guys are taller than me so it feels right (I'm not short in RL).

Last week I saw a tall AV that was all legs so she looked like a stork!

The various Avatar Height Detectors also have an issue, in that they report your eye level, not height to the top of your head. This is another reason people make avatars that are taller than they should be. The only way to accurately determine your height is to make a prim that is as tall as you are, and check the height of that prim.

It's worse than that. That height detector also only measures down to teh middle of your feet, not the bottom.

I have a height detector in my inentory that accounts for these errors. I can't check right now if I have trnsfer perms on it though.