[opensource-dev] A question/comment about the behavior of auto-pilot camera.

[Jamey Fletcher]

Boroondas Gupte wrote:
>   On 06/25/2011 05:58 PM, Lee ponzu wrote:
>> # Go wherever this avatar goes.
> A long time back, the viewer had a 'Follow' option in the context menu
> on other avatars. If I remember correctly, it was removed due to abuse
> considerations. (Which I could never quite follow (sic), as this merely
> facilitated something for everyone that a skilled human keyboard or
> joystick-navigator could do manually anyway.)

> That feature was quite useful when showing SL to a friend who had just
> signed up and wasn't used to its navigation, yet. Having them follow you
> as you showed them around much more natural than teleporting everywhere,
> even for short distances. (Which might not have been possible back then,
> anyway. I don't remember whether this was before or after point-to-point
> teleports were introduced.)

The follow feature would allow someone to set their AV following 
another, and then chat-spam the hell out of them.  As it stands, it's 
nearly impossible to keep moving while chatting to someone.

Of course, it would be nearly nothing to build a vehicle that would do 
it, or to modify a client to do it...