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(quotes) [quote name="@Polareis" date="2021-07-19 20:05:07" ] So about three years ago, Banhana made [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/2401118/1]this thread[/url] about the sizes of dragons. It's a good and helpful thread, but it's outdated now! I'm also using slightly different methodology. I'll tell you about my methodology in a minute, but first, let me display the results! These images are HUGE, by the way. [/quote] [quote name="Polareis" date="2021-07-19 20:05:07" ] [i]Rather than measuring the ratio of the dragon's length to its height, you need the ratio of its length to its display size.[/i] Dragons all have different heights, and their full height takes up a different percentage of the sprite in each one. Therefore, it is more useful to measure them against a static metric: the pixel dimensions of the sprites. Once you know how many pixels a dragon measures from nose to tail tip, you can scale it accurately. [/quote] Actually, @/Banhana did also measure the ratio of the dragon's length to its display size! See here: [quote name="Banhana" date="2018-03-21 13:33:45" ] Assuming that the lengths listed on dragon profiles are from snout to tail, I have been trying to figure out how big each breed is, measured on top of the head and on the withers (like horses heights are measured). After finding out how the sprites bodies are proprotioned I could also count how many percents the sprite images heights are of the dragons length. That allows me to rezise the sprites in scale, what makes visual in-scale comparison of the dragons possible. [/quote] [quote name="Banhana" date="2018-03-21 13:33:59" ] [center][img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/2cc4868809184c0ba5d1a59f8fd826d9/tumblr_p5ygxsxOv31vffxj3o2_250.png[/img][img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/6da58ca23d5d0bd3a35622ea04052d4b/tumblr_p5ygxsxOv31vffxj3o1_250.png[/img][/center] [b]Guardians:[/b] Height measured on top of the head: 30% of the body length Height measured on the of withers: 20% of the body length An average Guardian with 15 meters (~49'3'') length would have their head at 4,5M (~14'9'') and withers at 3M (~13'2''). [b]Mirrors:[/b] Height measured on top of the head: 20% of the body length Height measured on the withers: 15% of the body length An average Mirror with 6 metres (~19'8’’) length would have their head at 1.2M (~3'11’’) and withers at 0.9M (~2'11’’). [/quote] [quote name="Banhana" date="2018-03-21 13:33:55" ] [b]List of the sprites with their multipliers:[/b] Fae male: 0.56 Mirror female: 0.5 / Mirror male: 0.41 Tundra female: 0.56 / Tundra male 0.56 Guardian female: 0.4 Spiral female: 0.2 Pc male: 0.52 Snapper female: 0.66 Ridgeback male: 0.53 Skydancer male: 0.38 Bogsneak male: 0.44 / Bogsneak female: 0.46 Nocturne male: 0.5 Imperial male: 0.38 Wildclaw female: 0.5 Coatl female: 0.4 / Coatl male: 0.48 I multiplied the dragons lenght with the breeds multiplier and resized the images pixels according to the value to two decimals. This way the picture will have scale of 1px=1cm. [b]Examples:[/b] Nocturne male, lenght 5M 5 * 0.5 = 2.5 = 250px Tundra female, lenght 4M 4 * 0.56 = 2,25 = 225px Imperial male, lenght 28M 28 * 0.38 = 10,64 = 1064px [/quote] So, both threads are ultimately doing the same thing: finding the length of a pixel and resizing the dragon accordingly (by measuring the ratio of length to height, and then height to display size, to get the ratio of length to display size.) There is one flaw with both though; dragons aren't two-dimensional, so a length measurement farther away would be larger if the dragon was viewed side-on. Most dragon poses are close to side-on however, so this wouldn't affect the measurements much. Cool stuff though! I like dragon measurements. [emoji=coatl happy size=1]

I didn't think the size differences were that extreme?! Most of my lair is faes and spirals so my poor imperials (which I did not realize are that big) are probably trying to not step on them! I thought Guardians would be the biggest! This is messing with my head.