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... _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
