The Camera Always follows my avatar

[Okami Aquila]

I typically use the Black Dragon viewer and thought that the camera was much better than other viewers, but when it comes to filming a scene where I need the camera to stay in the place that I put it instead of following my avatar or objects, I'm having a hard time finding where to disable that follow avatar feature. I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't have this feature like Firestorm but it would be really great if it did.

If it does, someone please tell me how to keep my camera in one spot.

[Lindal Kidd]

Paging @NiranV Dean! Customer needs help in the Camera Department!

[NiranV Dean]

Black Dragon does not have an option to turn off the automatic camera reset on movement. There are however two ways to do this:

1) You zoom on something and hold down Left Mouse while moving, this will keep your camera in place but it might wiggle around a bit when walking (i think this can be fixed by lowering the camera lag but i have never tried it).

2) Recommended: You use the flycam (simply just start it, you do not need to move it) to lock your camera in place.

[Okami Aquila]

Thank you for the help. I will give both options a shot and see what happens.

[2Tessa]

There are many tools on the MP for controlling the camera behavior, including creating videos.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?utf8=✓&search[layout]=gallery&search[category_id]=&search[sort]=&search[per_page]=96&search[keywords]=camera+control+&search[price_low]=&search[price_high]=&search[land_impact_low]=&search[land_impact_high]=&search[copy_permission]=0&search[modify_permission]=0&search[transfer_permission]=0&search[limited_quantities]=0&search[is_demo]=0

[Okami Aquila]

Thanks!

[Nalates Urriah]

For videos the best addition is a SpaceNavigator. Once you switch to flycam mode the camera is attached to the SN and completely detached from the avatar.