Discussion of new LSL feature

I think of the thousands of hours, maybe tens of thousands or more, that we have discussed ways to make swings swing, rockers rock, doors creak open slowly, and the like. Of course, they all amount to variations of the same thing.

The solutions are almost all barely satisfactory, and contribute to script lag.

Would it not be better if there was one or more functions in LSL that accomplished this in a direct and efficient way (to be determined by the implementers .

For example:

llSwing( pivotPoint, angle, period )

might make a swing swing back and forth between +angle and -angle at a speed determined by period. (Hmm, probably need some sort of axis or vector, too).

llOscillate( direction, distance, frequncy)

slides in direction for some distance, slows to a halt, slides back 2*distance in -direction, slows to a halt, and so on.

Tools we have now, such as llMoveToTarget and llSetTargetOmega (names from memory, probably wrong) do part of the job, but stringing a bunch of them together to make it work right turns out to be hard in LSL, but would be almost trivial, I believe, in the underlying Server side VM.

Anyway, just a thought. If anything comes of it, we can make a Jira request.

This is sort of analagous to Particle Emitters. There, we have a full featured underlying mega call that can create everything from fireflies to comets and blizzards. I would like a low level linear and rotational oscillation causer. The it would be easier to make swings, rockers, pendulums, machine parts, pumps, wells, locomotives, elevarors and such.

id be more interested in llOscillate myself, it seems to have more apparent use than just swing