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Johan Laurasia
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Join date: 31 Oct 2006
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07-17-2008 10:00
Advanced... Character... Character Tests... Allow Select Avatar

Has anyone played with this yet? It's pretty cool, you can select your avatar and translate (but not rotate) it. The name and description fields are empty, and you can type in them, but it does not persists. Only the general and object tabs are available, and you show up as 1 prim, but most things in those tabs don't really do anything. An attempt at a drag copy results in an info dialog that says 'duplicate with no root selected. You have to already be in edit mode to select your avatar as right clicking your avatar yields a different pie menu without the edit choice.

Don't really see much use for it, but it's pretty neat that you can now select your avatar as an object :)

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07-17-2008 13:30
Cool. I'd imagine this is precursor to the puppeteering animation system that's been in the works for a couple years now.
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Johan Laurasia
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07-20-2008 22:05
Could be, however I noticed that it only appears to be client side. I was showing a friend, and she said I wasnt moving, and when I'd hit a direction key or type, my avie would 'snap' back to where he was when I started moving him.


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Viktoria Dovgal
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07-20-2008 22:38
Mm that's been there a while. One useful app is in conjunction with hide selected, to get a screen grab without random avatars who just won't leave, or just drag them out of the way. Can use it with individual attachments too.
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