Like Dolus said on the Flickr for this photo, it would certainly be interesting to see if one could script something that would turn one's av in small increments in a short span of time while taking a snapshot with every rotation increment.
Alas, it would be impossible to use LSL to take a snapshot (as there's no method to do so), but you could rig up something using libsecondlife. Alternatively, you could start a video capture and take each frame as the image, and stitch them together that way, but you'd sacrifice quality.
Probably the best way would be to use libsecondlife, but I'm out my league on that one. I'll talk to one of my friends and see what she can come up with, and I'll write script that rotates an avatar x amount.
I alluded earlier in reference to my timelapse videos, that the macro program you use doesn't have to be done from within SL, and general-purpose ones will work; as long as it can trigger shortcuts like Ctrl-Alt-arrow keys to orbit, you're in a good place. It's not really even all that high-level — just a simple, practical solution.
If you've seen "Circular Romp" in my YouTube videos, I did it using exactly the techniques you're thinking of, Alexander and Dolus.
I have noted, tho, that SL misses some keystrokes, esp. if you're at a low framerate.
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Like Dolus said on the Flickr for this photo, it would certainly be interesting to see if one could script something that would turn one's av in small increments in a short span of time while taking a snapshot with every rotation increment.
Alas, it would be impossible to use LSL to take a snapshot (as there's no method to do so), but you could rig up something using libsecondlife. Alternatively, you could start a video capture and take each frame as the image, and stitch them together that way, but you'd sacrifice quality.
Probably the best way would be to use libsecondlife, but I'm out my league on that one. I'll talk to one of my friends and see what she can come up with, and I'll write script that rotates an avatar x amount.
I alluded earlier in reference to my timelapse videos, that the macro program you use doesn't have to be done from within SL, and general-purpose ones will work; as long as it can trigger shortcuts like Ctrl-Alt-arrow keys to orbit, you're in a good place. It's not really even all that high-level — just a simple, practical solution.
If you've seen "Circular Romp" in my YouTube videos, I did it using exactly the techniques you're thinking of, Alexander and Dolus.
I have noted, tho, that SL misses some keystrokes, esp. if you're at a low framerate.
I've never used the Alt-Zoom machinima camera… maybe you could use that to set up a rotating camera.
btw – that's a link to my YouTube videos, not yours!
^ Hey, thar's an idea! What you can also do is sit on a rotating prim (llTargetOmega) and keep taking pictures rapidly.
D'oh, that's a generic YouTube link, try this:
http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Torley
Hey… what would happen if you took photos as you pivoted around a focal point, such as yourself, and then stitched them together?
I think the result would do my head in!
Good question, Sean. That's precisely what I did here:
http://torley.com/dance-of-romance/
I hope it does your head in!
Oh, I see… that's how you did it!
Head… done… in!
Okiedokie. I put the script up on my server, so you can download it here. It's extension is .lsl, but it's just a text file.