Walking towards a camera

Imagine an avatar at one end of a catwalk, and that avatar's camera at the other end, fixed, looking at the face of the avatar. The avatar then walks down the catwalk, towards their camera, giving a nice smile into the camera at 1m away.

Apart from the smile, can this be done?

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I have been able to do that since last summer. All I have to do is navigate with the arrow keys on my keyboard. If I hold the down arrow more than a couple of seconds, I keep walking towards the screen, but I'm walking forwards, facing myself, not backwards. I figured that was a new undocumented feature. It isn't?

as long as you don't focus the camera on the av, but rather on a position behind the av... yes (otherwise the camera moves with the av)

maybe I'm misunderstanding but it looks like you simply need to fix ("block" your camera:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/wiki/index.php?title=Script:Fix_camera_on_touch

That would be an AO trick. The default walk leaves you facing away from the camera if you use the back control. If you use an AO that kills the default walk, the avatar is allowed to face the camera.

No kidding? Cool. I hadn't given it any thought until this question came up. You learn something new every day in this crowd.

Totally possible to do as Opensource suggests, but I have to admit that on the very rare occasions when I want to do this (e.g. film a scene I'm in), I prefer to use two avatars, each running in their own window. If your computer can do it, camera control etc. is much more straightforward, and you can do everything as normal with your "model" without perturbing the other avatar's view of the scene. The camera avatar can also be completely devoid of friends, groups, etc - which helps.
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heh, you know, an AO is the first thing installed on my avs, so I never would've realized that it was a side effect of having the AO on. I really should have a pure newb alt just for that reason.