slmwowm01

When you start quoting Nietzsche, you know you're in deep *****.

Wow, thank you! You've been most helpful, and I really appreciate it.

Wow, OK. I have absolutely no experience with LSL, but I do I have a little experience with javascript, mostly just altering other people's scripts to fit my own needs, so it's not completely alien to me. Basically, there are three main operations: 1. Camera positioning (position the camera so that is a certain distance, height, and vertical angle from the player's avatar). 2. Run a specific pose on the player's avatar. 3. Take a snapshot of the player's avatar. Those are the three main elements, with lots of repeats/sequences. In more step-by step detail, the sequence would work like this: point the camera at the player's avatar move the camera to a certain distance from the avatar raise the camera so that it's looking down on the avatar from a 30 degree angle run pose #1 on the avatar take a snapshot run pose #2 take a snapshot repeat steps 6 and 7 until all poses have been snapped (probably 7 poses altogether) orbit camera around the avatar horizontally 45 degrees repeat steps 4 thru 8 repeat steps 9 and 10 until all 8 horizontal angles are completed So basically, once I have the initial camera distance/vertical angle set, I'm horizontally circling the player's avatar, running poses one-by-one, and taking snapshots of each pose. I would REALLY love step 5 (take a snapshot) to be included, but I realize that taking a snapshot might be something that can only be done with an actual mouse-click. In that case, I would need the script to pause a moment so that I could manually click the snapshot myself. I don't know how complicated all that is, but I'd be willing to give it a shot if it's not too much of a time-suck (I'm kind of a busy bee, haha). Also, if anything needs clarification, please just let me know. It's sometimes hard to convey stuff like this with just words typed into a text box. Thanks!

I need a very specific script written, one that I'm quite sure isn't already available for purchase. I know there's a classified section, but that seems to be pretty much nothing but real estate ads, and I feel like I would have a close-to-zero chance of finding a scripter that way. Any ideas how might I go about finding someone for this? Thanks!

As for the automated snapshot part, I could live without that, though it would be nice. I mean, if the script could control the camera and poses, and then pause while I manually clicked the snapshot each time, that would be doable. As for the avatar's head moving to look at the mouse position... that part confuses me, and makes me wonder if I'm explaining it right, or if we are on the same page. In my experience, when I focus the camera on my own avatar and then rotate the camera manually (i.e. click on the camera control UI element), my avatar doesn't react at all. It just keeps looking wherever it was already looking.

I'm wondering if it's possible to use scripting to do the following things: 1. Position the camera on your avatar from a certain distance and angle. 2. Put your avatar in a certain pre-defined pose. 3. Take a snapshot of your avatar and save it to your hard drive. Ultimately, what I want is a script that will (in this order) point the camera at your avatar, adjust its distance from your avatar to a specified distance, rotate the camera so that it's looking down at your avatar at a 45 degree angle, then put the avatar into a specific pose, take a snapshot of the avatar and save it to your hard drive, and then rotate to a different angle and repeat the process until all poses have been photographed from 8 different angles. I want the whole procedure to be automated, so that I just have to run the script and then sit back while it does all the work. Just to be clear, I'm not asking how to do it, I just want to know if it can be done. If so, I'll be looking to commission someone to actually write the script for me.

Ah, deformers. I'll start looking into that. That's helpful. Thanks!

I'm want to make my legs and torso shorter than the built-in controls will allow. Is there some way around that? Maybe a plugin or something? I know I can always use a mesh body with alpha layers, but I mean specifically when using the built-in body controls. Thanks! EDIT: I haven't yet found anything useful on downloading shapes, but that is an idea I have, maybe some way to download a shape and then edit the file in a text editor to make the legs/torso shorter than the controls allow.