Teleport and the camera gets left behind

Hi,

I have been going through a number of teleporting scripts for short-range tps, such as floor-to-floor, around a mall, etc, (just by using them, not by examining the code), and one thing that I have noticed is that several of them produce a strange camera effect.

The effect is that when you click on the prim containing the tp script, and choose Teleport from the Pie Menu, you disappear, but your camera stays there looking at the space you once occupied, rather than going with you and appearing behind you at the new location. You have to make an avi movement for the camera to work at the new location, while other teleport scripts do not have this effect and work fine.

So just out of curiosity, does anyone know the likely cause I should be looking for when I start getting into the script code for these teleporters?

Regards

Rock

I think that happens when you disable camera constraints. Short-range teleports are just sits with unusual sit targets. There is no reason to reset the camera after a sit so if camera constraints are off and you don't tp too far the viewer will just leave the camera alone.

It seems to happen if you Alt-Click something to focus on it and then TP and I've had it happen when I've TPed well beyond the draw range I have set. Just one more piece of SL weirdness.

If you've alt-clicked, your camera will not move unless you're exceeding the maximum camera range (with camera constraints enabled). That's not a bug.

Suppose you're sitting on a roundabout and don't wanna get sick so you alt-click somewhere to lock the cam. You don't want SL to move your cam anyway just coz the prim you're sitting on is moving. For SL, there is no difference between a roundabout and a teleporter. It's a prim that's moving and should not affect the camera except when going out of range in which case your camera will move but keep aiming for the spot you were looking at earlier.

Just press escape a few times to get the camera back on you. You can also try to change the camera from the script, like forcing mouselook.

Lyn

This often occurs with teleporters even with no alt-click (and without having turned camera constraints off as well). Unfortunately, forcing mouselook isn't a great solution because then the avatar is left in mouselook which they must then exit on their own.

Other than mouselook, is there no other way to use scripted camera controls to reset the camera to the current location after the teleporter move?

you can set the position of the camera when you teleport llSetCamera....() commands will allow you to position the camera to where the person will be TPing. I believe these commands only "Update" when an avatar sits on the object, so changing them after the person has sat down (a 3 second delay to play a teleporting animation) may be a bit more involved, although I suspect it's still very possible.

I struggled with this issue when I created my Beam-Me teleporters. I never really found an adequate solution. I tried various camera commands but none seemed to do any good. I found the effect to be rather random. It seems to occur about 10% of the time no matter what I do. I reached the conclusion it was one of those SL weirdnesses. As mentioned above, hitting esc twice gets the camera back to where it is suppose to be.

Thanks Senuka and Monica. I guess we really need a command to update the camera after its been set (or any time for that matter). I guess I'll just put in a llSetCamera anyway and not worry about it too much if it doesn't always work.