Resize on hold, attach, or cuddle

[Kayleigh McMillan]

I have no idea how scripts work and therefore am clueless when it comes to knowing what is possible and not.
Recently I hear from more and more people on these forums that they would love for their cats to fit their avie when they cuddle/ hold or attach them.
The size of the KittyCatS is given ofcourse why being able to resize them might makes no sense.
I was thinking would it be possible to resize them when they are attached only (via a resize dialoge or something) to suit the avie's size after which when they are detached and make a connection with the server again they pop to their original size?
Just so when they are attached they have a sort of temporary fictive adjusted size.
I for one would love to cuddle and hold my kitties in different ways I love that about KittyCatS.
I hope this is somehow possible

EDIT I have brainstormed some more about this.
It could be cool if on an attach, hold or cuddle event people can enter the size of their avies in centimeters or their % size just so the kitties would automatically fit to their size.
Maybe if we click attach, hold or cuddle it can ask for the avie % besides the permission we sometimes need to give for that cat to interact with us.
And after we drop the cat it could pop back to it's normal size.

[Tad Carlucci]

Technically, what you're asking is possible. And there is no need to have the owner give their avatar's height if you don't mind the size adjusting differently if you're sitting, standing, crouching, etc. The script can obtain the size of the avatar's current bounding box, and can resize the attachment to some proportion of that size, possibly even choosing the proportion based upon the attachment point.

Life could be very interesting. Consider a kitty which sizes to 10% of the avatar's height when attached to the shoulder. You're walking around with a cat about the size of your head sitting on your shoulder. Imagine the shock on your friend's faces when you drop it on the ground in front of them, it happens to be one of those monster specials .. and it grows to it's normal 10-meter size! WHOMP! "Where did THAT come from?" ... "Run!!! It's that Attack of the 10 Meter Kitty!"

[Deer Thistle]

I agree! I really push for this because it makes me sad that I can't get the same enjoyment cuddling kitties that work with my avatar proportions as another. If another size isn't added to the mix, this idea would also be totally awesome and fit the bill for satisfying all parties who want a kitty to compliment their avatar in cuddle/hold mode.

[Kayleigh McMillan]

(01-14-2013 09:56 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  Technically, what you're asking is possible. And there is no need to have the owner give their avatar's height if you don't mind the size adjusting differently if you're sitting, standing, crouching, etc. The script can obtain the size of the avatar's current bounding box, and can resize the attachment to some proportion of that size, possibly even choosing the proportion based upon the attachment point.

Life could be very interesting. Consider a kitty which sizes to 10% of the avatar's height when attached to the shoulder. You're walking around with a cat about the size of your head sitting on your shoulder. Imagine the shock on your friend's faces when you drop it on the ground in front of them, it happens to be one of those monster specials .. and it grows to it's normal 10-meter size! WHOMP! "Where did THAT come from?" ... "Run!!! It's that Attack of the 10 Meter Kitty!"

ROFL!!!
I totally want to do that with my special sized ones

[Sanura Snowpaw]

I couldn't agree more this or a stunted growth at 5 days old IDC what they name it but that is a good cuddle size for me

[Kayleigh McMillan]

Maybe if we like to avoid what Tad just said what would be totally funny ofcourse, but maybe in the long run something which could have unwanted side effects, we could set our cat in cuddle and hold mode just as in low prim mode before we attach them.
Just so when we drop them they are still in cuddle and hold mode until the owner brings them to their normal being again.
Perhaps to work around the fact they are running around in cuddle and hold mode and people can own a variety of fictive sized kitties in their avie size which run around etc. this cuddle and hold mode could be a pose in which the kitty doesn't move and clearly is set in this mode.

[Luna1987 Resident]

I have a lot of issues holding the kitties too

this is more my avi shape but i dont want to change my shape to fit the kittys... i am super short and I look rather silly when i hold my fav kitty that is the 49 tall... my face rubs his belly ><

[Deer Thistle]

(01-15-2013 10:42 AM)Luna1987 Resident Wrote:  I have a lot of issues holding the kitties too

this is more my avi shape but i dont want to change my shape to fit the kittys... i am super short and I look rather silly when i hold my fav kitty that is the 49 tall... my face rubs his belly ><

This is so exactly what I mean! I don't think KittyCatS foresaw that as time goes by, more avatars get smaller than what we were used to seeing years ago and it'd be so nice if there were kitties that just fit every size avatar with equal interactivity, not just those of certain proportions or overall avatar shape.

My friend's avatar is 5'3" according to a few height calculators. Seems like a pretty normal RL height, right? But whenever she holds/cuddles, her cat is not only too big for her, but the cat goes through her body and more, I'm only a bit taller than her and the effects are almost as bad.

It'd be nice if we could have kitties that adapted to our shapes as Kayleigh suggested or just a cuddle/holdable size for every person like being able to cuddle/hold toys, teas, 5-day olds, etc plus a new random size would add to the overall thrill of breeding, add a new quest for size collectors on the market - I foresee either Kayleigh or Sanura opening up the 5-day old toddler miniature museum! LOL, and also give us another random factor to celebrate when RNG is our side!

Btw, I don't mean to sound like a broken record as I've been posting about this for quite some time but many community members have spelled out by this point we need some sort of way - whether adding another size, allowing all sizes to be cuddled/held, or having cats that auto resize to our shape - to all partake in cuddling/holding cats, this isn't just one breeder circle chiming in on this, this is everyone. And it's not something just brought up on the forum or this subforum, this is everywhere.

I think adding something to alleviate this issue should be a high priority. One of the most exciting parts of KittyCatS is being able to interact with your kitty and being deprived of the ability to smother your kitty (no matter his or her size) with love due to an avatar's personal choice in shape size takes away from that immensely.

[Tad Carlucci]

Just don't forget to resize the cat on drop! I can see it now .. I contort my avatar so that the cat on my shoulder becomes a nanoprim and didn't resize when dropped .. oh where, or where, did my kittycat go?