[LT] Leather (& Textile) weight issues and Scaling to size.

[jacobmuller]

Originally Posted by Anthony

a standard estimate of human surface area is sqrt (weight * height / 3600 ), where weight is in kg, height is in cm, and area is in m^2 (yeah, that's some horrible unit confusion there). That works out to 2/3 * sqrt(W*H) if we want square feet, pounds, and feet. Thus, for a 6'/180 lb man (183cm/81kg) we get or 21.9 sf or 2.03m^2.

I endeavour to acknowledge the wisdom of KISS and for a similar query was pointed to Basic Lift as a racial mean.

(one of the reasons I love GURPS is my occasional OCD trips where I spend hours figuring out the precise numbers for something and then realise GURPS had it covered with 3d and a mod).