Penny Patton wrote:
KaelemDajuan wrote:
I totally agree about looking better when your avi is smaller, and i have a funny story to tell, when i first created my av i didnt think about its actual height, i did want a smaller av yes, but i didnt actually know how tall i was, so i made my av the size i thought looked ok, but i thought i was like about 5'4 my rl height, well shock happened when i was walking across an empty land and i came across a nice friendly man, i felt so silly, he was towering over me i was only waist high on him, and instantly i thought my goodness how short did i make my avatar, so when i went to a freebie place that had a height detector i measured my av and it said i was a tiny 4ft 11 :smileyvery-happy:
But you might not have been 4'11". One of the confusing things about SL is that the feature originally designed to tell avatar height, AgentSize, is actually broken. Any height detectors that use it alone are going to give you a height about 6-7 inches shorter than you actually are (in which case you'd have actually been about 5'6"). Even the height displayed in the official viewer is wrong, with Linden Lab stating they are aware of the issue and will fix it "eventually". Several of the more popular TPVs correct this.
The only 100% accurate way to know your height right now is to hop on a pose stand, take off your hair and shoes, then stretch a prim from the bottom of your feet to the top of your skull. The size of the prim is the size of your avatar in metres.
I had gathered several different free height detectors since using the one at the freebie store, they all told me a different height, and all said they were the most accurate, but you definitely can't go wrong using a prim as a measure, so that's what i've done with mine. I had tried making my av my RL height 5'4, but it made me look just a bit too small, so i increased it several more inches, which still looks small in comparison to the giant sized 7ft-8ft avs but where i hang out now most male avs aren't so giant, so i'm completely happy with it now :smileyhappy: