Camera lagging behind in the RC? Tip from Ganymedes!
April 27, 2008 10:37 am
I - and my client’s camera - are ok now when doing the basic stuff: travelling, building, some exploring, talking 1-on-1, or even 1-on-5. But when things get really busy it tends to lag behind: I tell it to go up twice, notice it does not react, and 5 minutes later end up with my camera in the roof somewhere.
Luckily Ganymedes Costagravas found an excellent solution to stop the camera from lagging behind: twiddle with the debug menu setting ‘Camera Position Smoothing’. Not needed in normal circumstances, bit it works miracles when in a crowded sim!
With the latest Second Life® Clients (the 1.20 series) I noticed the camera tends to “sway around” when you turn. Other people might also refer to it as “the camera is lagging behind”.
Of course this depends on how good your computer is, and your Graphics Card and whatever. I have to admit I need a better computer to run Second Life® more properly (I am saving up for one, but we all know they don’t come cheap).
Nevertheless, if you are like me, and truly are not finding a camera that keeps “swaying” whenever you turn a lot of fun, I suggest you do the following:
- go to the Advanced menu (formerly known as “Client menu”)
- scroll down the list and open up the Debug Settings.
- type: CameraPositionSmoothing
- the default time there is 1.000 seconds, I lowered mine to 0.200
Like I said, it’s just a tip, and a lot depends on how well Second Life® runs on your computer.
Hugz & Greetz
Gany
3 Responses to “Camera lagging behind in the RC? Tip from Ganymedes!”
Thank you so much for posting this! This new default setting was really making me dizzy and I couldn’t remember where to adjust it. Thanks! ^^
Cool tip, but Vint, did you install a plugin or change settings lately that changes the RSS feed’s build settings? When reading your blog posts in Google Reader I see ‘ as ?, the two opening-and-closing “s as ??, and the (R) as ???. I see it fine when going to your blog to read it, but, maybe there’s something wrong with the RSS feed.
Np iAlja. Thank Gany for blogging this in the first place! =))
Smiley, not that I know off. Although some things went wrong after my forced update to WP 2.3. Still need to figure out how to get my tags working again. ;(
When did this start occuring? Maybe feedburner change something that I need to look into.
Care to comment?