If you create your own avatar from scratch you may want to review the number of polygons your figure is made up of. Remember we are talking real time 3D rendering over the internet. The AvLab figures are approx all under 2000 yet retain good detail. The animated horse that I have on my world is 1190, the Orc has 876. We are talking "less is more". That said my French Maid, created in part in Truespace and compiled in AvLab, sure knows how to strut her facets :)