A Short Addendum

Yes.

In case people were wondering, I am available for design work for hire.

Okay, so it will not be as awesome as someone who will charge you tens of thousands of Lindens, but it will be quirky and it will not be another dull, bland cube on the landscape.

And if I have any say, it will be cozy and intimate. One of these days I am going to build a house 100% to scale just so people can understand a major problem with design work in Second Life. Between the camera angle being very far out and most avies being really tall, everything has to be much larger than life to be navigable.

And just for reference, those tools that measure your height under-report it. If you make yourself exactly five feet tall (roughly zero on the height slider) according to the height tool, and then make an object that is 1.65 meters tall (a little over five feet), you will still be a good 3-4 inches taller than the object. And no, that is not all hair.

I would love it if the default camera angle could be adjusted to persist, and if the height tools gave real measurements that could be toggled between inches and centimeters. For instance, height and inseam, instead of height and leg length. Then again, I wish there were many things that could be done with the avie settings that can't be done. People may not think twice about sliding the slider to 100%, but they may hesitate to set it to 250cm or 100 inches (that 8'4").