I used to be able to rotate my camera such that I was able to look at my own avatar and "puppeteer" him [arm movement etc].
Now when I attempt to switch the camera to FACE him it rotates the avatar so the camera is ALWAYS over the shoulder.
I think it is VITAL for Machinima and possibly other purposes to bring back this functionality of camera independence.
Could be a simple F key to decouple camera etc.
I really like this idea, too. More generally, I'm disappointed that the F3 third-person view in VR is stuck in one place. Sometimes I'd like to fly-cam the third person cam in VR mode. One obvious use is Drax's: taking videos. I find VR mode is a powerful tool for fine camera control via head motions, which is awesome for videography.
One example of where I'm at a loss in VR mode is when I want to hear someone more clearly in a crowd. In Desktop mode I can fly-cam my way right up to their face, which is great if their microphone is very quiet or noisy.
There are other benefits. And, I understand, downsides to this, but it would be nice to have some parity on this basic aspect of usability between Desktop and VR modes.
@Draxtor
To be honest, there should be a UI where You can manipulate one cam or many cams to do just anything even just follow a character from one side at all times or within constraints.
But I would certainly agree that at least being able to do the SL ctrl alt mouse, maybe should be mapped as alt or double alt to toggle characters cam while keeping him walking or running in the direction of wasd, and V mapped for cam framing on the mouse pointer and pivot on it. F should be frame, which is what H is in SL currently....
But yeah cam UI editor should come along with full keyboard mapping in my opinion .
But the cam system on Sansar is really spartan if not close to broken, making it impossible to navigate any interior with precision and zero latency , so im sure We will see a major upgrade at one point in the future
Coca I totally agree! Ideally there would be a special mode for camera work. Or perhaps the ability to script a camera device and switch between different angles? ALSO WE NEED 360 VIDEO ! ! ! ! :)))
@Draxtor
Please take alook at the first dozen of minutes of this Gamepleay video paying attention to teh automatic cinematic framing and zooming of the cam.
I think Sansar should have a EXTREMELY advanced cam UI with its own editor powerful enough to frame zoom pan rotate play fast play slow , pause etcetc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G92UYSEOzAM
this is in basic a cam and lighting game, nothing more.
Story telling in VR is important, and there are tricks and tips like colours density of polygons that can help a client navigate through a story, but nothing like the cam and lighting can achieve immersion and corresponding sucess in what you are trying to have the client experience.
Powerful and dynamic cameras and lighting and particles systems (environmental weather effects) are very crucial for the success even of a video footage.
While I advocate for 3d I do however really hope that Your requests be satisfied overwhelmingly as I think video footage integrated with advanced ecosystems will be the big dominant theme one day.
EG Movies where the audience wears VR headsets and will be inside the movie....and we are sooo far from getting there at consumer level...maybe 7 10 years?!
As for scripting cams, yeah nice, but overall maybe splines and other automated methods can be just as good and faster.
While I do think that cams should be open for coding for very rare and extreme cases and flexibility , I think that the cam system should be built inside the editor with an extremely powerful system with a team working on it.....same for lighting as the two walk hand in hand...and Sansars current lighting system is unfortunately unacceptable........this is the biggest of issues about Sansar, there is so much out there that is so much more advanced and flexible, that I do not think that You can go on building a platform trying to give essentials to the largest crowd possible....thi sis not how it works, You build a platform thet is so powerful that it can first only be accessed by niche and in time as everyone else upgrades hardware will then jump on board because of its fame of quality and features.
You are a solid video maker and producer, it is pitiful that even for video capturing Yourself has to come and ask for the most simplistic features.