LSL - Get coordinates on mouseclick

I'd be intrested to see an event in LSL that will allow the script to pickup a coordinates vector by looking at the 3D area in which the user left-clicked with the mouse.

For example, left clicking on a spot on the ground next to you will call an event with a vector paramter that will pass the coordinates of the spot in the 3D world on which you left-clicked.

This sort of a feature can have multiple useful applications in scripting.

I agree with da kitty, this would be cool. Although I'd suspect there would have to be some kinda localised limit to the function, cuz clicking with that fat little finger at certain angles could be interpreted within tens of meters. Like when you're selecting land and then go 'um.. thats nowhere NEAR where I was aiming!'

Unfortunately, I can think of several ways this could be abused by griefers too...

Fortunatly, virtually any function in LSL can be abused by griefers if you just put 10 seconds of a thought into it.

This event is no exception.

I would rather see this as an addition to the touch* events. Perhaps a new function: llDetectedTouchPosition which will return the position on the object's surface where the user touched.

==Chris

This would be nice as a touch event, though i'd still like to see a control() feature that obtains an XYZ from a world surface.

I think this would be handy, it'd help alot with making objects respond differently to where they were clicked, I.e. menu systems without using more prims and the like.

I endorse this feature.

I don't care how its handled really.

I agree with this - I was just going to post a suggestion for llDetectedTouchPos() and llDetectedTouchFace() - where the ...Face() would return the face number that was touched, and ...Pos() would return the position (0..1,0..1) on the texture on that face that was touched. But any way to implement the SL equivalent of an image map would be very useful! (prim reduction galore for control panels)

- Neo Rebus