Separate "Quadruped"/"Biped" options for Tinies when riding a Megapuss

[Phil Metalhead]

Hi, I just recently got an avatar that makes me look like a tiny kitty (yay!). I went to ride one of my Megapusses and was pleased to see it had an "Are you a Tiny?" prompt. However, I was quickly disappointed as I learned that the Ride animation for Tinies doesn't play well with quadrupeds -- at least not this one.







I believe that this Tiny is constructed with the avatar arms and legs completely folded up onto the torso, and the animation for the Tiny's arms and legs are controlled entirely by the hands/feet. Also, there's a "cross-legged" quirk where the left hand controls the right front foot and the right hand controls the left front foot.

I would love to see the prompt options expanded to "Are you a Tiny?" ("Quad Tiny", "Biped Tiny", "No"), with a separate animation for the quadrupeds.

The avatar I use is "Tiny Tiger Avatar" @ https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tiny-Tiger-Avatar/621822 and it uses the "ChooKoWanko" AO system. I don't know if this system is used anywhere else or if it's unique/proprietary to this series of avatars by this particular creator... but I would so love to be able to ride my megapuss with this avi!

[JessicaArianaHamby Resident]

the "tiny" setting I think stems from the days of pre mesh. Child avatars used a system called "tiny tot" hud. This was a hud that would fold your avatar in half, giving it the appearance of being smaller. Such avatars could only wear dresses, because anything else would show that the av in fact, was folded. The dresses were prim flexy things that covered the fold.

It would be interesting how to fix that, as there are a ton of avatars, many different types. And with the new upgrades SL is planning, much more will probably be coming. Not sure if it would be possible to have separate settings such as that.

With that said, a setting I think would be great is "position". so you would sit on the megapuss, and select no to being a tiny. As that setting is really geared towards the tiny tots fold-able av, and will "disfigure" any other kind. And then, if you click the megapuss, you get a menu for position, which will let you move down closer to the cat's back, so it appears you are sitting on the cat, and not floating above. This will be beneficial, not only to avatars like your's, but any avatar that is not the typical, adult height in SL.

(02-23-2016 06:05 PM)Phil Metalhead Wrote:  Hi, I just recently got an avatar that makes me look like a tiny kitty (yay!). I went to ride one of my Megapusses and was pleased to see it had an "Are you a Tiny?" prompt. However, I was quickly disappointed as I learned that the Ride animation for Tinies doesn't play well with quadrupeds -- at least not this one.







I believe that this Tiny is constructed with the avatar arms and legs completely folded up onto the torso, and the animation for the Tiny's arms and legs are controlled entirely by the hands/feet. Also, there's a "cross-legged" quirk where the left hand controls the right front foot and the right hand controls the left front foot.

I would love to see the prompt options expanded to "Are you a Tiny?" ("Quad Tiny", "Biped Tiny", "No"), with a separate animation for the quadrupeds.

The avatar I use is "Tiny Tiger Avatar" @ https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tiny-Tiger-Avatar/621822 and it uses the "ChooKoWanko" AO system. I don't know if this system is used anywhere else or if it's unique/proprietary to this series of avatars by this particular creator... but I would so love to be able to ride my megapuss with this avi!

[Phil Metalhead]

If I choose "no", it really badly mangles me; it looks like I'm exploding... waaay worse than what you see in these screenshots.

[JessicaArianaHamby Resident]

Interesting....