Oz Linden commented at 2015-08-19T18:41:53Z

Please clarify what you mean by reset. An example of a sequence of user interactions and camera behaviors would be very helpful

Lucia Nightfire commented at 2015-08-19T18:55:10Z

As mentioned in the description, users currently have to either use movement controls or Esc to "reset" their camera, thus making it focus on and follow the owner.

"Resetting your camera." is an practice users of secondlife have been using for years now.

Whirly Fizzle commented at 2015-08-19T23:44:54Z

Neither of these scripts will work unless the camera view was reset before using them:

Example 1 - llSetCameraEyeOffset and sitting

• Rez a box & add the following script:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSitTarget(<0, 0, 1>, ZERO_ROTATION);
        llSetCameraEyeOffset(<0, 0, 2>);
        llSay(0, "Please sit down");
    }
}

• Hit ESC key to reset cam to default.

• Sit on the box

• Observe camera moves to point directly down on your avatar as expected.

• Stand up

• Rotate camera so it is facing your avatar.

• Sit on the box

• Observe camera view does not move and does not point down ontop of your avatar as expected.

• While still sitting, hit ESC.

• Observe camera view now correctly points down on your avatar.

• Expected: Camera view should point down on your avatar without having to hit ESC key 1st.

Example 2 - llSetCameraParams in attachment

• Rez a box & add the following script
  {code}
  key id;
  default
  {
  attach(key id)
  {
  if (id == NULL_KEY)
  {
  if (llGetPermissions() & PERMISSION_CONTROL_CAMERA)llClearCameraParams();
  }
  else
  {
  llRequestPermissions(id, PERMISSION_CONTROL_CAMERA);
  }
  }
  run_time_permissions(integer perm)
  {
  if (perm & PERMISSION_CONTROL_CAMERA)
  {
  llSetCameraParams([

    CAMERA_ACTIVE, 1, // 1 is active, 0 is inactive
    CAMERA_BEHINDNESS_ANGLE, 180.0, // (0 to 180) degrees
    CAMERA_BEHINDNESS_LAG, 0.5, // (0 to 3) seconds
    CAMERA_DISTANCE, 10.0, // ( 0.5 to 10) meters
    //CAMERA_FOCUS, <0,0,5>, // region relative position
    CAMERA_FOCUS_LAG, 0.05 , // (0 to 3) seconds
    CAMERA_FOCUS_LOCKED, FALSE, // (TRUE or FALSE)
    CAMERA_FOCUS_THRESHOLD, 0.0, // (0 to 4) meters
    CAMERA_PITCH, 80.0, // (-45 to 80) degrees
    //CAMERA_POSITION, <0,0,0>, // region relative position
    CAMERA_POSITION_LAG, 0.0, // (0 to 3) seconds
    CAMERA_POSITION_LOCKED, FALSE, // (TRUE or FALSE)
    CAMERA_POSITION_THRESHOLD, 0.0, // (0 to 4) meters
    CAMERA_FOCUS_OFFSET, <0,0,0> // <-10,-10,-10> to <10,10,10> meters
  
     ]);
    }
  

  }
  }
  {code}

• Take box into inventory.

• Pres ESC to reset camera

• Attach the box to your avatar.

• Observe camera view points down ontop of your avatar as expected.

• Take off the box.

• Rotate camera so it is facing your avatar.

• Attach the box.

• Observed: Camera view does not change.

• Expected : Camera view should point straight down onto your avatar.

• Hit ESC key and observe camera is then in the correct position looking down on your avatar.

If Lucia's request was implemented, the scripts would reset the camera without the user having to use the ESC key first.

Lucia Nightfire commented at 2015-08-20T00:20:17Z

Aside from making applications work correctly without user intervention, it will also prevent people from cheating in Experience based games such as Paleo Quest, Amazon River, Linden Realms, The Cornfield and many others where all you need to do alt cam all over the region or adjacent region to find your objectives or objects of interest. Amazon River attempts to combat this by annoying the player via chat to not move their camera far away from their actual agent's position which you wouldn't be able to do in real life. If this feature was implemented, the camera can be kept in the controlled state game designers intended.

Oz Linden commented at 2015-09-02T19:02:33Z

Thank you for the clarification.

There may be some difficulties with implementing this, but it's worth considering.