jarlen619 Posted July 15 Posted July 15 i noticed that, aside from very special NPCs that are supposed to be big and tall (Tommy), most NPCs of the same gender are the same height. this is a bit odd because the voice actors/motion capture actors for the game are diverse in terms of how tall they are AND because it's just a bit unrealistic. now, i know this is a fictional game, but it's still very clear that Rockstar was trying to be as grounded, historically accurate, and realistic as possible. Another thing is that the wiki for some characters state that they're canonically a certain height, but if you look at them in the game, they're literally the same height as everyone else. For an example, Javier's wiki page states that he's 5'8". interestingly, he does look quite slight in RDR1. But in the second game, he's exactly the same height as John, Dutch, Arthur, Charles, Sean, etc. Anyways, I thought of making a mod that changes up the heights of the main characters within the game. especially in the gang. I might not touch on other people from outside of the gang, simply because we don't seem them much. This is how tall i'd make each character: Dutch - 6'3" - i think the commanding height suits him Charles - 6'1" - i imagine him to be tall for his era, but mostly just strong Morgan - 6'0" - similar to Charles, except older and slower John - 5'10" - 5'10 is tall for a man in the late 1800s. Sean - 5'8" - not only was this probably the average height for a man in the late 1800s, but it would also make sense than Sean was shorter than a lot of character because i believe he was born only a decade after the potato famine ended. which would probably mean he didn't have a ton of access to food as a child Uncle - 5'6" - Uncle is short in rdr1 (which fitted him), but is the same height as everyone else in rdr2 Javier - 5'7" - ik the wiki says he's 5'8". in rdr1 he actually looks much shorter than 5'8", but in rdr2, he looks like he's the same height as everyone. i think 5'7" would suit him, cuz its sorta in the middle, i also would think Sean being both taller and broader than Javi would sorta suit them Lenny - 5'9" - maybe slight above average Hosea - 5'11" - i think it would be fitting if Hosea was shorter than both Dutch and Arthur, but slightly taller and rangier than John Sadie - 5'8" - i think it would be fitting if she was a tall woman Molly and Tilly - 5'1" - i think it would fit them if they were petite Grimshaw, Mary-Beth, and Abigale - 5'4" - i think these heights fit these characters. female characters are all the same height in rdr2, but they're shorter than the males. i saw someone do a video on the NPC heights in the game and all the men appeared to be 6'1"ish and all the women appeared to be 5'4"-5'5" Karen - 5'6" - kinda tall for a woman of this era but i think it would fit Micah - 5'10" - he's hunched over so i'd assume he'd be taller if the stood up more. hunched he'd be 5'10". upright he'd be close to 6ft Strauss - 5'5" - he looks like he should be small and weasely. the character, like Micah, appears to be hunched so he does give off the impression that he's shorter than other characters. if he's 5'10" while everyone is 6ft in the game, then he should be 5'5" in a game where the average male height is 5'8" Kieran - 5'8" - average, maybe on the slighter side Bill - 5'9" - i would never think of Bill as tall. just average height, heavyset, and stocky Pearson - 6'2" - Now Pearson in my mind would be a tall, almost scary lookin fat guy Joe - 6'1" - he looks like a big dude Cleet - 5'5" - he looks pretty small and crawny Colm O'Driscoll - 6'1" - tall and skinny Alberto Fussar - 6'0" - he seems like he has more Spanish blood than Native, and he's also high class so i'd imagine him to be tall Eagle Flies and Rain Fall - 5'9" - 5'11" - i wouldn't make them small. maybe slightly above average. I'd prob make Rain 5'9" and Eagle would be 5'11". Edgar Ross - 5'7" - definately not that tall. more like kinda short and portly Sister Calderon - 5'3" Swanson - 5'7" Josiah - 6'1" - he reminds me of Daniel Day Luis, who's 6'1" or 6'2" i believe those are probably the only characters i'd bother editing. some of them i might leave as is. like i'd prob leave Arthur, Charles, Micah, and Colm's heights as vanilla. I might tweak them slightly. And I'll probably leave Karen's height as-is, while making the other women taller or shorter. But as for characters like John, Dutch, Lenny, Sean, Javier, Strauss, Pearson, etc heights would all be changed around. now the problem could come in the form of cutscenes. i hear changing their heights could make no effect on cutscenes OR they can mess them up. I also heard that messing with character heights could f*#@ up animations like horse mounting. Now, This won't be a huge problem for a character like Arthur, whose height i'm probably not going to touch, but it would be for John. Now as for John, i do believe the NPC that you play as during the end of the game is actually a different NPC than the John you interact with when you play as Arthur Morgan. When you play as John, most of the gang members are either dead or disbanded, so you'd never meet them. Also none of the gang members he meets during the end of the game are characters who i'd equate his height to; they're all either taller or shorter. so if i leave John's player character version alone, he would only be about a couple inches taller, which is prob smth you wouldn't notice. You could just say he's wearing new boots, or maybe he's one of those ppl who kept growing till they reached their mid 20s (i do believe John is in his early-ish 20s at the start of the game. i'm not sure, though
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