Scale Avatar + Attachments overall size together
Futanarihime Resident
Hi!
I finally decided to reach out about this after like, almost 8 years of being on Second Life lol...
Basically, something I've wanted for a very very very long time is the ability to scale up my entire avatar and all of her attachments. She's a fantasy themed avatar and I've always intended for her to be kinda giant for roleplay purposes. Unfortunately Second Life doesn't really let you do something like this. You can change height but that affects overall proportions. The only other option is to use avatar pieces that are already big, but doing so would make her no longer the character that I made and love. She wouldn't look the way she's supposed to anymore.
I understand an apprehension to do something like this as some people could use it for griefing. I still think it should be a possibility, at least within reason, as I'm sure there are plenty of people like me who wouldn't use it to grief others and instead just want to fully realize the character idea they've had.
Thank you so much for reading this, and if you do end up implementing my suggest I'd be most grateful.
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AlettaMondragon Resident
If you mean that unrigged attachments would be scaled and repositioned when you change your avatar shape or size, the idea is great, the question is if the scale could be translated to attachment position.
So let's say you're only wearing modifiable unrigged attachments (the rigged ones are irrelevant here because they scale with your skeleton anyway). You set your avatar height to 120% of what it was. All your unrigged attachments should be scaled to 120% of their previous size, but they should also be repositioned in proportion.
It gets even more difficult when you change body fat or belly size or leg thickness, etc, because the value of a 5% change in those will depend on the current avatar height and body thickness. So the system would have to calculate each attachment's new position based on what attachment point they're attached to, whether that attachment point was affected by the shape change, and how much it actually has to be moved if it does.
Really not a bad idea, it drove me crazy whenever I did minor hip size adjustments that I had to reposition a lot of unrigged attachments to fit. It would be really nice if that could go automatically.
Futanarihime Resident
AlettaMondragon Resident I meant both rigged or unrigged, though if it's less trouble to make a system that scales rigged attachments along with the whole avatar then that's good news. Thank you too!!
Yman Juran
Nice idea somehow and creative, but I doubt it can be implemented ..
Futanarihime Resident
Yman Juran Thank you! That means a lot to me