Video Demo

Core Features

Scenes
  • Think of each scene as a "song and dance number" with up to 12 pre-recorded camera angle presets for recording it.
  • Supports text-based importing and exporting of scenes so that presets can be shared with the crew!​


Presets with HUD or Keyboard Activation
  • To Add/Remove Camera Angle Presets:
    • Click and hold over any F1 to F12 button on the HUD.
  • To Use Presets:
    • Touch any 'green' F1-F12 button on the HUD,
    • Or, via your keyboard's F1-F12 keys with provided Second Life gestures, assuming they're activated!
         
 
Avatar Following
  • Fixes the camera position, then rotates the camera to follow the avatar as they walk through the scene.
    • Works better at distance or with faster GPUs.
  • "/555 Follow NameOf Resident" (or any other named avatar)
  • "/555 Unfollow" - to stop following
  • See below on how to set up Shift F1-F12 keyboard commands to run follow and unfollow commands automatically.
  
 
Naming, Exporting and Importing Scenes (for Crew Sharing)
  • Allows scenes and angles to be shared with other crew members.
  • Use "/555 title NAME" to set/remove a title.
  • Use "/555 export" a scene, with a title.
  • Use "/555 import TEXT" to reload a different scene.

Understanding the Camera Buddy HUD

Important Notes:
 
  • Use of this HUD can occassionally leave your Standard Second Life camera in a weird perspective.
    • Fix: Turn the HUD on then off.
    • Surprisingly this simple on/off fixes all issues.
 
  • For Step A: Clicking anywhere on the HUD turns it on.
  • For Step B: Click the green area to turn it off to regain control of the default SL camera.
  • For Step C: Click and hold the red area.

  • To set a camera angle before Step D, you need to learn how to use the Free Camera:
    • Zoom in/out of the View: Use the Mouse Wheel.
    • Orbitting a Clicked Location: Hold Alt then Left-Click mouse to orbit clicked point.
    • Panning a Clicked Location: Hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt then Left-Click mouse to pan clicked point.
 
  • With a new angle defined, Step D, click and hold an empty F1-F12 slot to save that camera perspective.
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  • After Step D: Any green F1 to F12 button can be clicked to set that angle.
    • If you have the corresponding SL Gestures activated, you can press the F1 to F12 keys on your keyboard.
    • Activation Troubleshooting: If you click any green buttons, and nothing happens, click ESCape to reset the camera, then reclick any of the F1-F12 buttons on the HUD or keyboard.

Provided Second Life Gestures

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There are 15 gestures, when activated:
  • F1 to F12 changes the camera position and angle to a predefined one for the scene, but only if it appears Green on the HUD. If it's not green, nothing happens when pressed.

  • Shift-F1 is used to turn off the Following feature. Once clicked, the camera will then slowly continue to turn towards the last avatar. To fix the camera again, select a different angle.

  • Shift-F2 and Shift-F3 are two examples of the Following command.
    • Example: Shift-F2 issues a "/555 Follow Quertie Resident" command
    • Example: Shift-F3 issues a "/555 Follow Evelyn Reiko" command.
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It's easy to create new Follow short cuts:
  • Select any of the two of the Shift-F2 or Shift-F3 examples.
  • Select COPY (from the right-click menu).
  • Then click PASTE (from the right-click menu).
  • Then open the Gesture and make the following changes:
    • Change the gesture activation short-cut from Shift-F2 or Shift-F3 to something else, such as, Shift-F7.
    • Set the Follow command, into the chat box in the gesture, such as:
      ​        /555 follow GreenLantern Excelsior
      to follow Durant's XO.
    • Remember to Activate the Gesture (lower-left) before Saving! (If you forget, there is a right-click menu to activate.)

  • If you activated the gesture, then Shift-F7 will cause your camera to follow Hal.

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