3rd person follow cam behind an rc vehicle?

Is this possible? As you know an rc script can be a basic car script that is being "told" that there is an avatar sitting on it, when in fact there isn't. Permissions and phys is usually applied with a touch_start. But was wondering..would there be any way possoble to have the rc script grab cam as well? that would just rock. sitting behind and just a bit above the rear of an rc aircraft would be cool. I'm not too keen on camera scripting is why I am asking Any suggestions/Comments?

as far as I know, you've got to sit in an item for the item to override your camera's location.

If you want your avatar to ride in a small vehicle, you could use a meatball animation to make the avatar smaller, or you could use an invisiprim to hide the avatar (or both). IM me in-world if you want a copy of Meatball and the invisiprim.

Thanx That is what I thought. Was just wanting to confirm my suspicions. and i already have thos two things hehe. Thanks again

I've been thinking about this for awhile too... There's another option, though it's a bit kludgey. How about making the RC controller a sittable object?

Like so: you activate the RC controller attached to your hand, and it automatically rezzes a small prim which you then "sit" on. The prim overrides the sit animation with a stand, so it looks like you're standing and operating the controller, and it also alters your camera position to follow the RC car/vehicle.

The advantage of this approach is that people can actually see your av operating the controller while the little vehicle zooms around - however, adjusting the camera on the fly to follow the vehicle might be a royal PITA and too jerky to work properly...

Attachments can also take control of the camera, so you don't need to sit on something, but the new camera system isn't really ment to move like that. Not sure if it's possible, but a compromise would be to have the camera pan around so the RC is at least always in view.

This may be insanity but could you have the object you want to follow shout it's position and have the camera script respond by refocusing on the object. It would require quiute an intense amount of information transfer and would probably be a bit jerky.

Or maybe this just can't be done.

Unless they've reworked the way the camera works, this "works" but is very jerky because as soon as you press a control key, the camera snaps back to it's default position behind your avatar. There is no setting to override this behaviour (outside of writing it in the libsl client).

If you take controls, and don't pass them on to the client, the camera is not reset...

Lyn

how would you go about doing this?

Set pass_on to false. This means your script captures the key press and doesn't allow anything else to use it.

However, this does not stop the camera from moving in my experience. When you first press a movement key, even with the events being captured, it resets the camera behind avatar.