Dash To Cam. Anybody know what that is? Now I do! Thanks for all the help. Much obliged.

[PhillipMagnus]

My magic HUD will let me Dash To Cam. Just click to move my Avi to where the camera is pointing. Doesn't the camera just point 'thataway", in a direction, not at a target. I inquired from the store, by the way, and they told me 'click to move where the camera is pointing', repeating it like I'm stupid. I might very well be. I'd still like to know how to Dash To Cam, though. Can anybody help?

 

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Yeah - It causes your avatar to "Dash" to the cam location in-world - When it works. * giggles *

The cam view has a POV and location that LSL can retrieve. This information is used to set up the movement of your avatar to the relative POV location of the cam.

Here are the keyboard shortcuts that allow you to change your cam's POV without using the mouse.

View

Mouselook	M
Reset View	Esc
Look at	Hold Alt and click mouse to re-center
Zoom in	Ctrl+0
Zoom default	Ctrl+9
Zoom out	Ctrl+8
Zoom camera in	Alt+↑
Zoom camera out	Alt+↓
Orbit up	Alt+Ctrl+↑
Orbit down	Alt+Ctrl+↓
Orbit left	Alt+Ctrl+←
Orbit right	Alt+Ctrl+→
Pan up	Alt+Ctrl+Shift+↑
Pan down	Alt+Ctrl+Shift+↓
Pan left	Alt+Ctrl+Shift+←
Pan right	Alt+Ctrl+Shift+→

Now that you see where and what you want to Dash to, press the Dash to Cam button area on the HUD - Yes it is interactive. It also has a hotkey but I don't remember the key combo to activate it.

Sometimes DtC uses a site to site TP - sometimes it's a real silly wiggling walk. It only works it you have permission to enter the location [parcel] that your cam is viewing. Security Orbs, Access lists & in-between parcels that you don't have access permission to can all cause you to go splat.

The developer had scripted several methods to accomplish the "dash" - Which is used and when to get you there is only known by them.

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

Your camera can be controlled by your mouse and does not always just point thataway.

Try alt left clicking on something, anything, and you will see your camera, not your avatar, focus on that point.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Camera-point-of-view-controls/ta-p/700047#Section_.2

[Rolig Loon]

I made a device that sounds very much like that a year or two ago. Your camera is at the exact center of your screen. It's a fairly simple matter to write a script that will substitute your own position for the camera's.  In my device and I suspect in the one you have, you simply hold down your Alt key and click the mouse on a spot you want to go to.  That automatically centers the location on your screen. Then you zoom in reasonably close, so the camera's position is a few meters back from the spot, and activate the device.  Zip!  You're there. 

Incidentally, if you use the Firestorm viewer, that function is built in.  You just type "tp2cam" in chat.  Here's the description.....

Teleport to cam position (tp2cam): Teleports the avatar to the position the cursor is currently looking at. This is useful when walking into a store. After looking around and finding the item to purchase, this shortcut takes you to the position immediately, without having to walk.

[Innula Zenovka]

Is tp2cam in Firestorm a form of CamDash (in which case it will ignore landing points and the like) or is it another way of activating double-click tp?

[Rolig Loon]

It behaves just like a double-click TP, so I suspect that the Firestorm team just tapped into that code and used their own chat trigger. It's a nice feature.... and better than my LSL version.

[Lindal Kidd]

In addition to the other great answers (especially Rolig's), you can set your preferences to allow you to tp to your mouse cursor location with a simple double click...making most add-on devices like this unnecessary.

[Innula Zenovka]

It's not quite the same thing, Lindal. Double-click TP, being a teleport, doesn't work in -- for example -- large shops that have a landing point set (you'll have seen that error about "unable to teleport closer to target" at times, doubtless). Dash2Cam, in contrast, uses physics movement actually to move you very fast, so, provided it doesn't try to take you through a no-entry parcel (not normally an issue in a shop) it should work anywhere.