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Possible to detect camera mode with LSL?
Ged Larsen
thwarted by quaternions
Join date: 4 Dec 2006
Posts: 294
03-22-2007 03:56
I've been playing with scripted camera control. The only problem is that of the 5 camera modes:
  1. seated avatar
  2. standing avatar
  3. alt-zoom
  4. customize avatar
  5. mouselook

...scripted camera control fails silently for the latter 3.

llGetAgentInfo() will tell me if the avatar is in mouselook, but is there a way to use LSL to determine if the avatar is either in alt-zoom or customize avatar camera modes?

Or (and I think the answer is no), is there a way for a script which has PERMISSION_CONTROL_CAMERA to FORCE the camera mode back to one of the first two default modes?

Or else, do I just have to make sure that I always hit ESCAPE 2 or 3 times before using a script that's supposed to control the camera?

Thanks.
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Strife Onizuka
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03-22-2007 04:03
Have to hit escape 2 or 3 times. Sorry.
It bothers me too. Makes dragable HUDs a pain (you lock the camera position so it doesn't move while dragging the hud, but the problem is half the time it isn't in a camera mode where it can be locked by script).
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Ged Larsen
thwarted by quaternions
Join date: 4 Dec 2006
Posts: 294
03-22-2007 04:20
From: Strife Onizuka
Have to hit escape 2 or 3 times. Sorry.
It bothers me too. Makes dragable HUDs a pain (you lock the camera position so it doesn't move while dragging the hud, but the problem is half the time it isn't in a camera mode where it can be locked by script).


Thanks for the answer, Strife. I sort of suspected that, but have missed obvious solutions in the past (for example, wasn't sure and hadn't tested yet whether llGetCameraPos/Rot would vary from some default values in the other modes.)
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