Suppress Screen Capture Animation?

First, I apologize if this has been addressed before. I've tried a search for the topic but, as you might guess, "screen capture" and similar variants are not terrifically useful as search terms.

Does anyone know a way to suppress the screen capture animation and camera whirr noises? Or is this animation hard-coded to hinder peeping-Toms? I would like to take candid, unposed pictures at events and such. However, the telltale click-whirr tends to disrupt the proceedings, as everyone feels compelled to stop and comment on being photographed. I've tinkered with llStopAnimation on personal attachments, to no avail, but it's possible that I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas?

I agree. Sorta. Yes, I'd like the ability to stop the anim as its a pain in the ass when photographing myself. BUT I do think there ought to always be some visual or audible cue that someone is taking a photo.

I too at first thought the sound was a warning to anyone was a good idea. But considering you can take a screenshot and no one would ever know, it seems kind of superflous.

you could use GCS, Grab clip and save program it will take a screen shot any time with no noise.
-LW

Well, even without an inworld cue, you can hit Print Screen -- not as clean, but it's still a recording of "evidence", just like copying and pasting the chat history buffer.

Well, external screen capture utilities will work, of course. But it would be nice to use the in-game screen capture utility, since it strips off the names, UI, and so on.

Yes Gina As I take many photos, a number of them for my blog, the convenience is appreciated. I do want to toggle this behavior as well.

Offline renderer would be nice too... take a pic at 1024 x 768 if that's all your monitor can do, but have SL pipeline it for 1600 x 1200 in the background or something, and apply additional antialiasing modes and whatnot to smooth the picture out, and in a nutshell, get it as high-quality as it can possibly be for your future treasured usage.

Hi Gina,

I agree it would be nice to get rid of the animation and sound.

However, I do find the snapshot to disk to be the best friend of an SL photographer which allows you to take lots and lots and lots of them. After the first ten frames people stop paying attention. The trick is to take so many pics the sound becomes background noise..hehe.

If the sound is getting on folk's nerves (which is the part of the process, i really really really wish could be supressed), back off a bit, and zoom in with the camera to get the pics.

When I was taking vendor photos this weekend, I used an external screencap program called Handy Snap (originaly got it because I'm taking an online course in Java programing which often necicitates submitting screenshots of program output. And Alt+Print Screen sucks.)

I may almost never use Snapshot to Disk again. ^.^; At least not for massive picture taking endevors. Good screencap progrmas a: offer a choice of file formats to save to and b: allow you to select only the part of the screen you want to take a picture of, which saved me soooo many steps in preparing the pics for upload. All I had to do after taking the pictures was resize them into the standard format I'm currently using for my vendors, plus a few enhancements like colored borders and logos in the GIMP. You can turn off the UI in the debug menu if you have to (just remember what key combination turns it back on!), so you're not really missing anything there.

Handy Snap is free, but you'll have to google for it.

On a Mac you can take a full or partial screen shot anytime using

Full: Shift+Command+3

Partial: Shift+Command+4 and click drag to frame the shot.