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A few newbie questions (and a compliment!)
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Author:  KatHeartsong [ 2024-09-25 17:19:06 ]
Post subject:  A few newbie questions (and a compliment!)
First off, Henri, merci beaucoup! What a great viewer in terms of frame rates, I am getting 50–100% frame rate improvements over any other viewer. Merci!

These are my first general questions if you don't mind ...

Is there no way to have the bottom buttons appear on the left or right edges of the screen in the settings? To use icons instead of text? Or would it be simpler for me to just make a Lua floater with the buttons I prefer and keep that on screen (I am very fluent in both HTML and CSS and Lua is not that difficult to script since it's largely just XML formatting).

Is there a way to have the chat bar along the bottom go only 50% of the screen width or smaller by either px width of %?

Is there no Landmark favourites panel or way to have a list outside of your Inventory of landmarks?

Finally, is there a way to save a camera position and make it the default? Adjust the rear view XYZ can not seem to get the correct angle and distance from avatar for me. I'd love to be able to cam around and then say "Save" that camera position.

Thank you for a fast frame rate stable viewer!
Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2024-09-25 21:24:51 ]
Post subject:  Re: A few newbie questions (and a compliment!)
KatHeartsong wrote:
Is there no way to have the bottom buttons appear on the left or right edges of the screen in the settings? To use icons instead of text?
Nope... This is the v1 UI, not the "flexible UI" of v3+ viewers...

But for such purposes, I implemented Lua scripting.

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Or would it be simpler for me to just make a Lua floater with the buttons I prefer and keep that on screen
Use Lua side bar buttons. It's just a few lines to write in your future automation.lua script. Refer to the PDF manual (also available from the viewer "Help" menu, "Lua scripting help..." entry) for full features and examples. And yes, those buttons can use icons and UTF-8 characters (including emojis)...

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Is there a way to have the chat bar along the bottom go only 50% of the screen width or smaller by either px width of %?
No, but you may hide it, and instead enable the chat input line in the chat history floater (see the "Preferences" floater, "Cool features" tab, "User interface" sub-tab, and do read the too tips there !). You could also create a Lua chat bar floater... Linux users can even use the dbuschat.tk Tcl/Tk script I provide (part of the installed files) for an independent chat window. Possibilities are endless...

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Is there no Landmark favourites panel or way to have a list outside of your Inventory of landmarks?
In v1 viewers we have the landmark combo in the World map, and I implemented a "Teleport history" floater with a preferred tab too, which auto-updates with your number of visits... You can of course use a Lua button to open that floater. And you can easily create a Lua inventory landmarks floater (examples of such inventory Lua floaters already exist in this forum: use the "Search" feature !).

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Finally, is there a way to save a camera position and make it the default? Adjust the rear view XYZ can not seem to get the correct angle and distance from avatar for me. I'd love to be able to cam around and then say "Save" that camera position.
Easily done in Lua... There are also debug settings (CTRL ALT S) for the most exotic camera parameters that are not listed in the "Preferences" floater, "Input & camera" tab, "Camera" sub-tab (I assume you found those...). Finally, you can use the "Front camera" for some other angles if you don't need it: it can be toggled easily from the "Movement controls" mini-floater (with the "Front" check box).

One advice: before asking for help, do explore the many settings offered in the Preferences floater, the menus (and the Advanced menu), or even the debug settings... This forum is in itself worth a Wiki, with already hundreds of questions answered: use "Search", please, before posting...
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