Shine, you can use a mini version right now. Just hit C and use mouse or movement keys. Eyeballery (if I understand correctly) will allow you to do the whole street.
@Shine, I believe the skill removes everything from the forward view, only leaving the landscape behind. It makes sense when you consider that Snapshotting, or photography, is learned after it. Remove distractions and you're left with a beautiful landscape to take pictures of!
@Hameigh
I just finished it. the scrolling when in camera mode seems a bit slow, but it's still very useful.
While you're mining, you can still look around. Being able to look around while working definately saved me time from running around the level. Great skill!!
Ok so Eyeballing is effectively just the ability to check out the entire street without moving? No extra's? What about the "With eyeballery, you gain the ability to see around corners, up ladders, and through walls" in the skill description?
"With eyeballery, you gain the ability to see around corners, up ladders, and through walls" is just another way of saying you can look at the whole street without moving. Granted, I don't have the skill, but I'd be surprised if it meant anything more than that.
Except that sometimes the traps come up while you are walking the street. This happened to me the other day. I walked past a trap and just as it was scrolling off the screen I noticed the blue question mark pop up out of the corner of my eye.
I know there's probably a certain type of Glitchen who needs help taking screenshots but the screen shotting skill kinda surprises me. Or am I missing something that makes this super useful?
For anyone on a MAC:
Hold Shift+Command and press 4 to get a cross-hair that you can use to draw a box around what you want a screenshot of. It'll save to the desktop. Or after you have the crosshair, press space then click on the window to get a screenshot of the entire window.
And on Windows you can use your print screen button to copy the screen to your clipboard or use the 'Snipping Tool' in your accessories to draw a box around what you want to copy.
DTC/Cross - but with any screenshotting technique, you would have to have your avatar front and centre, as that's the way the game appears... but with the combined skills of Snapshotting and Eyeballing, that's no longer the case. The result = even more awesome pictureness!
@annapeee, but why would I want to take pictures of anything BUT my awesome glitchy self? ;)
But in seriousness, I guess I can see the use for bloggers etc. I've peered into my meditative orb and I predict someone will make a version of the Sartorialist based within Ur. Calling it now!
What annapee said: photos are usually lame when the subject is dead center (a useful tip for real life photogs). And, unlike print screen, etc., this removes all the UI and gives you a clear view to the viewport underneath.
But, (i) this version of the camera is just a starting point: there is a lot more we can do, since we can tell what's *in* the photo as well; and (ii) never minding the camera part, being able to see all around a location is super handy.
1. Why can't I use the camera view inside my house? I'd like to take nice pictures there.
2. Why is the camera movement so slow? It's not that the camera couldn't move faster than my avatar. Maybe this is good for snapshots, but not for Eyeballery, which I want to use to see what's further away without having to walk or jump there.