3D Scene Icons

I'm working my way through an instruction book on how to use Motion... and it tells me to click View and Overlay Options menu and choose 3D Scene Icons so that I can see the camera icon when in 3D mode...
I can't find a 3D Scene Icon option in my version of motion. (3.02)
And so can't see a camera icon.
Any ideas where I can switch this on?

Oh... found it... there are two View Menus!!!

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First of all thanks for your input!
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