Second week back - learning how to film in Second Life

This week we will go through the following settings which will help us film our machinima in Second Life. You should spend a little time exploring these techniques to see which will best suit your film, and then it's finally time to start capturing!

CAMERA CONTROLS, PANNING
alt + left click to focus (+ cmd for mac)
ctrl-alt + left arrow to orbit (+ cmd for mac)
alt + down arrow to zoom out (+ cmd for mac)
ctrl-alt-shift+arrow keys to zoom (+ cmd for mac)

EDITING YOUR GRAPHICS SETTINGS
To see your FPS/performance
View>Statistics
To change settings
Edit>Preferences>Graphics
For example - if you are doing close up shots, limit your view distance to increase performance.

SPECIAL SETTINGS FOR MACHINIMA
Edit>Preferences>Input and Camera
DEBUG MENU - ctrl-alt-d (+ cmd for mac)
INTERFACE ON/OFF - ctrl-alt-f1 (+ cmd + function for mac)
Client > Character > Slow Motion Animations
Disable Camera Constraints
Debug Settings>zoomtime

Advanced>Character>Enable Lipsynch

World>Environment Settings>Environment Editor

SOFTWARE
Crazytalk
Fraps
Captureme




Check the links below for a lot more information about all of this, including video tutorials.