What's the best way to deal with avatar size differences?

I have made some interesting poses and animations, but the difference in the avatar and poser arm lengths are really irritating me. I spend more time tweeking arms and hands when trying to download something. Is there a better way to deal with this problem? Trial and error isn't working very well. To make my question clearer, can you scale the Poser 5 figure's arms to match you avatar?

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after reading this thread dispair, then join us bugging the lindens for better scalability between Poser / SL... sorry, we all do repeated uploads, unless you hapen to be using premade BVH / Mo-caps.... Good luck!

A few questions tho, are you scaling for a male or female AV in SL?

is your SL AV oddly proportioned? i.e. are you a furry / anime type / 7'8" giant / wide like a frieghtliner or mack truck....


if you are odly proportioned and making anims to match your AV instead of an average shape then I can gaurantee they wont match many other AV's in sl unless they have similar slider settings....

Remember SL bases the animation from hip positioning so dimensions further away from hips will be the ones most thrown off, i.e. arms

wow longer than intended... go read the other thread =P

Ferran,

Thanks for the thread link. It was informative. To answer your questions, I am scaling for a female and no my av isn't oddly proportioned. The whole reason for my questions, is because I wonder if you could scale the Poser model to match your SL av. It probably wouldn't be exact, but would it be helpful? I read on another website that some of the Poser settings had to be at a certain setting. I didn't want to mess with the scaling, because I couldn't remember what had to be set a certain way. I can't even remember where I read that. I just remember reading it somewhere...lol.

yes you could scale the Poser AV... trial and error to get dimensions right.

I think the best way is to tweak a bit between SL and Poser so you have a more middle of the road shape (at least until they make "scale automatically" actually scale) Who knows? maybe it does work? lol

really the only thing we know for certain is that something aint right between the proportions, and it's a coin toss as to which one is teh fubar and which is teh ubar.

/attitude on
As soon as I finish my animator toolkit I will most likely make SOME of them available, at the very least so I dont have to shop through a bunch of borked up anims and poses hehehe =P

/attitude off

Seriously though as soon as I get my growing list of custom work down to a manageable size I will be working on a compilation of SL / Poser help info... BUT DONT BUG ME TILL I SAY IT'S DONE! -thanks =D