Patent ID: 7639251

Claim:
A method of displaying a 3-D avatar implemented by an instant messaging client, comprising: acquiring a 3-D avatar configuration file for a current user; acquiring at least one 3-D item suite indicated by the 3-D avatar configuration file, wherein the at least one 3-D item suite comprises at least a finery module; dividing a fundamental personal model into at least one component, wherein the at least one component comprises at least an arm model and a calf model; attaching location information to each component, wherein the location information indicates the location of the component in the fundamental personal model; binding the at least one 3-D item suite to the at least one component respectively based on the context of each 3-D item suite, wherein each 3-D item suite is set an identifier indicating the posture of the component after being bound to the 3-D item suite; determining whether module interpenetration occurs when binding a finery module to the arm model and/or a finery module to the calf model; setting the finery module corresponding to the arm model and/or the finery module corresponding to the calf model invisible if the module interpenetration occurs; and displaying the at least one 3-D item suite and the at least one component.