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Can anybody explain how "show look at" works in advanced menu?

Dartagnan Nakajima
Registered User
Join date: 2 Feb 2008
Posts: 192
10-28-2008 08:23
Curious on how this works and what the different cursors are and mean.

P.S. I also heard that there was a way of knowing who might be checking out your profile.
Is this true?

Thanks.
Dick Spad
Life is a Pose Ball ....
Join date: 29 Oct 2007
Posts: 205
10-28-2008 08:43
here's the info about "show look at" .... found in the wiki

To use Show Look At, enable Advanced menu > Character > Show Look At.

Thanks to Richard Linden for this info on what the different colors mean:

* Nothing - dark gray
* Idle - light gray (look straight forward)
* AutoListen - light gray (look at avatars and objects that are talking around you)
* FreeLook - blue (follow the mouse cursor)
* Respond - black (look at someone when typing a response to them)
* Hover - green (look at the object your mouse is hovering over, when tooltips enabled)
* Conversation - dark blue (look at someone after clicking on them)
* Select - pink (look at the selected object)
* Focus - purple (look at the alt-zoom target)
* Mouselook - yellow (follow cursor in mouselook)

There are various values that control how long these lookats are valid, how they prioritize relative to each other, what the percentage chance of them triggering is, etc. You can find the settings in character/attentions.xml (e.g., C:\Program Files\SecondLife\character\attentions.xml)

oh yeah i also forgot to say .. that Torley did a video tutorial on this same time back ...
Dartagnan Nakajima
Registered User
Join date: 2 Feb 2008
Posts: 192
10-28-2008 08:56
Thanks, for some reason I was having a hard time finding an explanation. I went through Torleys videos, guess I'll have to look again.

Thanks again.