Jel Director Mode

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This is a quick overview of the (very slapped together) director tools in Jel.

The tools let you:

- Switch to an external object, like a duck, as the camera
- Move the camera along a linear track (either once, or repeatedly back and forth) by 'marking' two points in 3d space
- Track the avatar with the camera, or have the camera maintain it's proper orientation

Simple walk through (after adding query variable ?director=true below)
- Go to a world
- Spawn a duck with /
- Move the duck to the first position/orientation you want the camera
- Hover over the duck and press Q to mark the origin of the camera lerp
- (Optional) move the duck to the second point you want the camera to move to
- Hover over the duck and press E to mark the end point. Duck will start lerping. If you set "director_loop=true` it will move back and forth.
- If the lerp looks reasonable, hover over the duck and hit T to switch the camera to view the duck

Query variables, added to the URL after ? to use director mode:

director=true enables director mode, which adds new input controls

director_loop=true will cause the camera position to loop back and forth between your two endpoints
  otherwise you have to call `SYSTEMS.directorSystem.restart()` in the console to begin the camera lerp again (5s delay). Not looping is good if you are doing a shot where the camera comes to rest after an initial pan in. (But if your take is no good, you have to call the restart routine)
  
director_track_me=true will cause the lerping object's camera view to always point at your avatar

director_hide_self=true will cause the camera to hide your avatar so you can take environmental shots etc