Mouselook Realism Improvement

Hope this is the correct place to post this - it's not really a new feature, but a request for improvement.

There are situations in which your avatar is turned upside down, e.g. like standing on your hands, or dangling from a rope tied around your feet, that kind of stuff. When you get into mouselook then, the picture is upright instead of showing the correct viewing angle. Improving this would add quite a bit of realism.

Thanks

Mouselook has to be tracked by the sim, for things like scriptsthat use mouselook for vehicles and weapons, so it can't be dependent on the animation being played. If you want scripted furniture to change your viewpoint for mouselook, you can already do it: just have the animation play upright, and use llSitTarget() to turn it upside down.

I don't think the camera can roll though. I've never ever been able to get it to roll to a non-parallel-to-the-horizon position.

I see... thanks Argent for the clarification. So the animation creator would be the addressee for improvement requests.

@Draco, now that you mention it... indeed. You can only rotate it around 2 axes through the target, but not the 3rd. Shifting on the other hand works in all 3 dimensions, i.e. with the cross plus the zoom slider. Interesting discovery. Maybe it's just a feature that is missing in the camera control widget? If it was just possible to enter the command to rotate the 3rd axis, the correct picture should be created. These things are a bit difficult to present though, it is a common challenge for UI designers of 3D software.

Could it also be a deliberate omission for performance or usability reasons? E.g., which is basically about the same issue, avatars can tilt their head to one side, but the view from inside (mouselook) does not follow the rotation around the axis that runs from the camera to the target. This clearly calms the picture down and is less taxing on the client's rendering engine.

Them, for the simplified animation, and the script author to reverse the orientation change.

For an example, Loafy Harbinger has an upside-down chair in his shack in the southwest corner of Noonkkot that gives you an upside-down view in mouselook.

Try sitting on a cube then rotating the cube. Mouselook camera will rotate as well.