Guild Wars 2

I’m just wondering if anyone has found any method of measuring your characters’ heights against each other, other than finding a static NPC, measuring all your characters’ heights against it, screenshot all your characters from character select, and playing with resizing to estimate the height compared to said static NPC?

Sadly, it seems arenanet gave us no way of comparing our characters’ heights as the character select screen automatically resizes all racial male and female heights to the same height, haha.

IceBlink.4317:

I’m just wondering if anyone has found any method of measuring your characters’ heights against each other, other than finding a static NPC, measuring all your characters’ heights against it, screenshot all your characters from character select, and playing with resizing to estimate the height compared to said static NPC?

Sadly, it seems arenanet gave us no way of comparing our characters’ heights as the character select screen automatically resizes all racial male and female heights to the same height, haha.

I don’t think this was on their minds when developing the game.. :P

firebreathz.7692:

I don’t think this was on their minds when developing the game.. :P

Even though the character select in the first game showed heights as they were? XD

Anyway, with basic resizing and comparing to an asura profession trainer, I got the following done, haha. I still wish there was an ingame way of seeing it done, would be a lot cleaner too. XD

nice pic

I can see that what you are trying to do is not the easiest of tasks..

Here is an old pic showing the basic racial comparison. Though this is not the personalized attention that you want it might be helpful.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/44575-full-size-comparisons-of-races-and-genders/

I would deeply love an opening screen that showed all my characters in a group, clickable to choose which I wanted to use. A little like the new character generation screen where you choose race.

well i am set to maximum height on my mesmer human and i seem to be the same height as female norns but ive hade some players ask me if im human or norn do to my hight.
but ya im max hight for humans and i have not seen another mesmer thats a human thats taller than me.

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

well i am set to maximum height on my mesmer human and i seem to be the same height as female norns but ive hade some players ask me if im human or norn do to my hight.
but ya im max hight for humans and i have not seen another mesmer thats a human thats taller than me.

I swear the tallest human was still shorter than the shortest norn :/

If a bunch of people are interested and have suitable existing characters/spare slots maybe we could get together and take some comparison screen shots. Alternatively one person could do it if they had a way to make sure they were standing in exactly the right position and then edited the screen shots together.

(On the off-chance this idea takes off I have a max height norn female and male and a min height asura female I could contribute.)

In general terms though I’ve noticed most humans come up to about the waist of my max-height norns and my min height asuran is about waist height on most humans.

(It’s actually kind of funny when I’ve been playing a max height norn for a while and only seen other norn then suddenly encounter humans or sylvari, they look so tiny!)

@Guzzihero,
Cool idea, wouldn’t it be great!
They had something like that in the HoM for displaying minis, trophies and such. You coul arrange and re-arrange them. Where you had more than were allowed on the display stage, the excess were not should ( that would have to be :“fixed”).
Cool idea!

@Dolan,
Actually the max human female is a bit taller than the min morn female (see the graphic I posted earlier).

@Danikat,
(see the graphic I posted earlier).