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STOP Moving My Camera When I Close the Edit Panel!!!
Kex Godel
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Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 869
01-03-2004 03:52
GRRRR.

I'm getting so frustrated with this!!!
Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
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Posts: 2,989
01-03-2004 04:37
Tell me about it....oh... and you shoulda just bumped one of the other 10 threads that say this. :p
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Ezhar Fairlight
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Join date: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 310
01-03-2004 04:50
Yes, please change this. It's highly annoying.
Chip Midnight
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Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
01-03-2004 10:42
I'd rather see them stop moving my camera when I OPEN the edit panel, hehe.
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Sinatra Cartier
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Join date: 8 Jan 2003
Posts: 533
yes please
01-03-2004 13:32
It's funny - we have been asking for this feature for such a very long time. Seems like it would be an easy fix?
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Kex Godel
Master Slacker
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 869
01-03-2004 14:45
It should be easy to do, they probably just need one conditional in the code.

if(user_preferences.getPref(AUTO_EDIT_CAMERA)){
adjust_camera_as_always();
}
// else do nothing
Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
01-03-2004 15:28
Add a "Don't move my camera" preference item that, when selected, prevents SecondLife from moving the camera target and viewpoint when a window (edit, appearance, etc.) is opened. I'm sure there are a few depraved individuals out there who like the current system ;)
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Cadroe Murphy
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Join date: 31 Jul 2003
Posts: 689
01-03-2004 15:32
I umpteenth this motion. I was working in a relatively small space today and this was making me loco. What I would really like would be an explicit camera object that I could just put where I wanted. I don't know how they would integrate that into the interface, but the basic functionality is certainly already there.
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Ezhar Fairlight
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Join date: 30 Jun 2003
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01-03-2004 20:47
From: someone
Originally posted by Chip Midnight
I'd rather see them stop moving my camera when I OPEN the edit panel, hehe.


Ctrl-3 does that.
Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
01-03-2004 22:04
Ctrl-3?

Really, I just want "hands off" camera positioning in SL....don't touch my freakin camera position! Although, I guess the "auto zoomin" thing where you zoom in a bit when the camera happens to enter a wall or something is good. (Happens alot in tight spaces.)
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
Drathor Kothari
Elder Dragon
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 84
01-07-2004 15:32
Hands off camera movements would be nice, yes... I am alwats getting a look at an object and I close the edit window and WHAM.. looking at the back of my head again. (Although I must say it is a NICE looking back of my head:)

Speaking of camera.. I'd really like bounding box type objects. HOuses really need a box you can say, "Don't auto-move the camera out of this box!" so when you walk around you don't end up staring at the ceiling or the ground when you are in a small room.
Kex Godel
Master Slacker
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 869
01-08-2004 08:20
Drathor, that's a great idea that probably deserves a complete thread of it's own here...

Maybe this could be another checkbox on prims/objects to say that a camera cannot pass through it, below the four checkboxes that are there now ("lock", "physical", etc).
Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
01-08-2004 08:38
I want SL to read my mind and put the camera where I want it, at all times, automatically..........mmmm.
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!