AlterKatze Barnstormer

demondom wrote: Besides using the golden ratio that has already been said, proportion in terms of realism and non-realism depends on your preference. If you look in art books, comic books, and so on, proportion depends on the type of charcter being pictured. Superman who has to look impressive will have non-realisitic proportions, same as Wonder Woman. Personally I like to be more-than-real, so my legs are a bit longer than normal and I tend to wear more skirts and dresses to accentuate my longer legs. Visually, you cannot tell, but by using the Golden Ratio, I am off-standard. Best things to look is to either use the Golden Ratio or to use art/drawing books for proportion standards. Visually some of us *can* tell and it's quite annoying. When I started in 2006, most of us were normal size using the Agent Height scale. I watched this giant thing grow as it developed in the flood of 2007 and it's been causing eye pain ever since. There are other reasons to remain normal size. Penny Patton did a couple of nice essays on the subject: http://pennycow.blogspot.com/2011/07/matter-of-scale.html http://pennycow.blogspot.com/2011/08/matter-of-proportion.html She's right. There's only so much room on the grid and in any one sim. I own a residential island. I've had people leave because the huge houses they had to have to accomodate their giant avis wouldnt fit on my standard 32 meter lots. Before LL destroyed the mentor programs and the orientation areas, they acted checks to the normal tendency for males to try to grow themselves larger than other males. Many things are out of control because of this. As stated in this thread, we're losing people as fast as they're coming in out of frustration. Call me Alter.....