Size question

[peacemaker2]

Iv'e heard about "Tinies" in SL and, more recently, "petites". 

 

How do you alter your size post - character creation please? 

 

 

[Theresa Tennyson]

Avatars of non-humanoid sizes and shapes are made by hiding the base shape and skin with an alpha or invisiprims, deforming it with a special AO and then wrapping the invisible "body" with several prims (usually for tinies) or a mesh (Petites and other newer non-standard avatars.) The special AO provided can then translate the movements of your body into animations that will move the new worn body. You can't make the default skin/shape type avatar any smaller than the sliders allow without doing unusual deformations that will make it look very strange if you see it uncovered with something else.

[Jacki Silverfall]

Darn! This post isn't about what I thought it was. :matte-motes-evil-invert:

[peacemaker2]

So.....  How would you creat a Tiny or Petite (or other, if there are any other size types) character in SL please? 

 

 

[Ry0ta Exonar]

Go to the marketplace, type in "tiny" in the search box, browse through avatar appearance category and you can find many tiny and petite avatars. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/  (Make sure you try the demos before you purchase the full avatars) Just wear them, then you will be a tiny or petite avatar.

 

[Ceera Murakami]

You should be aware that both Tiny and Petite avatars have some severe limitations, as compared to normal avatars.

With a "Tiny" avatar, the visible body is made entirely of prims, and the actual body is folded up very strangely by a deformer in an animation overrider. This means they can NOT wear normal clothes and accessories. Thye also can not use normal animations, like dances, sex beds, or even normal furniture. Everything that you add to a "Tiny" has to be custom-made to work with them. Special prim clothes, special furniture that has animations compatible with the Tiny's AO and deformer, etc. . On the plus side, however, Tiny avatars have been around a long time, and there's a wide diversity of Tiny furniture, dance animations, clothes and accessories made just for this segmet of the virtual population.

The "Petites" have a couple of variations so far, made by different content creators. All rely on the new mesh avatar techniques, to replace your visible body with a much smaller mesh body. The ability to customize your appearance as a Petite avatar is very limited. Skins and clothes have to be made specific to the mapping used by that one content creator. Some makers use the same mapping, and others don't. Since the concept is very new, there is a very limited range of these avatars and of clothes and accessories for them. They can not use normal clothes, hair or accessories any more than Tiny's can. 

[peacemaker2]

THanks everyone. 

Two related questions though,

 

Apart from the normal one, along with "tiny" and "Petite", what other size name/categories are there please? 

 

Also, if in real life instead of Second Life, how tall would the size categories be please?  (Yards/Metres, I can do the metric/imperial conversions IRL.) 

 

 

[Penny Patton]

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peacemaker2 wrote:

Also, if in real life instead of Second Life, how tall would the size categories be please?  (Yards/Metres, I can do the metric/imperial conversions IRL.) 

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This is easy!

Everything in SL is measured by the same standard metric system. Prims, land, even avatars!

All you need to do to measure an avatar stretch a prim from the bottom of their feet to the top of their head. It helps if you can put the avatar on a pose stand to hold them still.

 

There are also scripted and client based ways to measure the avatar, but you need to be careful with those. Most scripted height rulers aren't measuring height at all, so the number they give is WAY off. Even the height given in the official viewer's appearance editor is wrong.

[CJBafey]

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Jacki Silverfall wrote:

Darn! This post isn't about what I thought it was. :matte-motes-evil-invert:

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LOL