arm, leg , neck length

Does poser have a way to modify the lengths of these appendeges ? if so what is the earliest version of poser that has this feature?

Also is it just a simple matter of making a prim block and attaching it to each part of the limb, ie. hand, lower arm, upper arm. and then using the length data of the prim block, ie. 0.33 meters to aid in modifying the poser avatar ? Do meters translate between programs or is there and easy conversion ?

can you also modify other planes of the poser avatar ? sholder to sholder width ? hip width ?
head XYZ ?

yes you could modify the poser avatar...in poser...or in some other 3d modeler.

no, you can't upload that to sl. body parts can't be stretched/shortened by animations...though there's some funky stuff you could do like folding the arm in half, but it'd look kinda funny, and you'd have a single joint arm with no hand at the end

*edit* oh are you talking about editing the poser model so it fits the shape of your av better so you can make things a bit more accurate for a specific body shape? that i dunno. i'm gonna say yes, but no idea where i'd start :3

I'll give you an example. I've been using avimator. if i wanted to make an animtion where the palms come together and touch in front of hte Avatar's chest it will look fine in avimator. but the minute i upload it in SL , because the arms of the SL avatar are longer thene the avimator avatar, the hands travel through each other. I could upload the pose a few times i guess trying to guestimate. If i was making an animation however- and not a pose- it would be impossible, tyring to know where each frame is.

check this out if you haven't already:
http://www.ulrikasheim.org/animation/translation.html

sadly, even if you find a way to make them look perfect on your shape, the same anim currently just can't work on everyone. best bet, and what i'm working on doing is uploading 2 or 3 versions of some of the same poses for various general body shapes.

g'luck!

Read it a few times before i posted here. She sais ou can modify "figure height" but what about forearm length or hand length ? sholder to sholder width ? what abou tthings that are non leg related like the height of the head, or neck ?

Okay finally got poser, i have it running.

Under menu item figure > figure height you have about 8 differnt heights to choose. They are all set in stone. I havn't found anything for modding arm length or chest width.. anybody know ?

never mind, found it.