1. a little slow there, eh? It has been on Beta 1.14.1

and YES! It's really neat for making videos, it's sexy!

However, you have to be careful with few setting that can cause the camera to break away from the viewer itself. When that does happen, just uncheck FlyJoystick Cam and then re-enable them again.

Now here's the NEW stuff that you haven't mention...
Go to Debug Settting, look for RenderGlow and set that to TRUE.

All full bright prims and glow-set particles will glow with sexier dodge effect. This work is also done by Runitai Linden himself.

Posted at 7:37PM on Apr 25th 2007 by Nacon

2. That's a cool feature, but being able to move your av around with a joystick would be even handier. Why isn't this built into the client yet? =(

Posted at 7:58PM on Apr 25th 2007 by October Hush

3. I'm suprised no one's thought of it yet.

Wait for it.

......

Controlling your avatar with Wiimotes!

Oh come on, you don't think that Wiimote control would make SL easier to control? Then you all have been educated stupid. Wiimote control is truth. You have been enslaved by word.

Posted at 9:30PM on Apr 25th 2007 by KirbyMeister

4. Er... um, thanks for the nice things you said.

I noticed some guy did this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaNBI2cmTlo

Posted at 11:37PM on Apr 25th 2007 by Runitai

5. Runitai rocks the house - no question.


K.

Posted at 12:24AM on Apr 26th 2007 by qarl

6. KirbyMeister, there's a difference between standard inputs and sensitive inputs that SL client will only allow... Meaning all sensitive input being used in SL client has been dumbed down to standard input (keyboard). But Runitai is allowing sensitive inputs for the camera itself... so far.

*hints* movements and LSL controls *hints*

Posted at 2:01AM on Apr 26th 2007 by Nacon

7. I wasn't trying to make a serious suggestion. I was just bringing up the idea, since people seem to have used Wiimotes for all kinds of controls.

And, yes I was talking about camera controls mostly - you could have avatar movements with the D-pad or

Runitai, thanks for the video link. However, it looks like he only set up D-pad movement and Wiimote pointer-as-mouse functionality - you clearly see him pressing "E" in the video to fly up. Hopefully, we'll have a slightly more impressive hack that uses these flycam controls. Sure, it's not entirely useful, but it is cool, right?

Oh, and how come all these cool features are hidden in the debug menu? These should be right in the release notes for all to see.

And the last part was a Time Cube reference. Didn't pan out real well anyway.

Posted at 5:35AM on Apr 26th 2007 by KirbyMeister

8. I've done little with it yet but get myself dizzy. Moo you should write up a guide to it *hint*hint*.

Posted at 8:49AM on Apr 26th 2007 by Kristian Ming

9. oops.. Looks like that it does not wants me to add my post :( I can't register somehow :(

Posted at 9:14PM on May 2nd 2007 by JarekDejavu

10. Well.. I tested this great new feature and I can tell, that its realy awesome and that it's exactly for what I have been waiting for. I did first test machinima (http://www.secondlife.sk) trying to achieve smooth camera movement this way and result is not bad at all if I will consider it was only first try. I had to be elaborating a little with setup and because my great 4 axis joystick have not been working well unfortunately and only 3 axis were available for me (probably Windows driver problem, I will try to replace by custom driver with user defined axis, I hope it will be posible and that it will help) I tried to assign 2 movements to each axis. Yaw and pan to X axis and pitch and pan to Y axis. I did by preseting scale and dead zone in a clever way (the control panel in SL will allow you to do so) and it worked even better then I hopes. Cause it you will assing panning to a slight press on joystick and reversed yaw on harder press, then you will achieve interesting effect: When you will push on the stick a little, picture will start to pan and view will be rolling away slowly, but when you will add press to the joystick, the camera will start to rotate around the view in a curve consisting from x pan part and rotation - so the curve of slight arch. Try to imagine it like when camera is smoothly doing round around the scene and dependent on the presure to the joystick the center of the view is changing. The effect is realy interesting and worth to be seen.. I.e. you can follow somebodies body from the toes to head and then when you will add presure to the joystick and you have pitch tied to Y axis too except of Y pan, you will start to see the person from the top and changing the angle of the view instead of the letting person to left the view. It's hard to describe, better will be if you will try. Here are my settings. Unfortunately this effect is not used in this my sample movie, to which I placed the link in here.

X-Axis:
Mapping = 0
Scale = 0.5
Death zone = 0.3

Y-Axis:
Mapping = 1 (Y axis of my joystick)
Scale = -0.5
Death zone = 0.3

Z-Axis:
Mapping = 5 (Rudders control of my joystick - unfortunately throtle have not been reacting)
Scale = 0.7
Death zone = 0.3

Yaw:
Mapping = 0
Scale = 0.5
Death zone = 0.7 (means it will start to react only on harder push)

Pitch:
Mapping = 1
Scale = -0.4
Death zone = 0.6 (means it will start to react only on harder push)

Of course this is for my joystick, so you have to elaborate with yours, this is just for inspiration.

Posted at 9:20PM on May 2nd 2007 by JarekDejavu