Flight pattern recording (?)

I want to deploy an aircraft in SL and I am limited on several fronts. Three primary questions I can't get past are:

- Can someone write a script that would allow my aircraft design to fly a pre-programmed path, sans pilot, and do so at pre-programmed time intervals, whether I am In-World or not, or is my only recourse some HUD-based approach that requires I use the HUD to fly it? (I am also a bit unclear on the difference between a script and an animation - If an animation routine could be attached (embedded (?))) to the aircraft to act as a single looping summarized script of sorts..)

- Is it possible to have something fly free of constraints of property lines and such, since, it seems in SL that most owned property includes the airspace, right up to the ceiling, whatever that is (Never got that far)?

- If you have something attached to the aircraft, is it restricted to always be in a given X, Y, Z coordinate relationship, as, for example, the aircraft turns, the attachment follows, or is that a PHYSICAL (For lack of a better term) restriction that cannot be addressed in SL, regardless of how it is attempted?

I want to put a towed banner behind it...is the gist of it...

Thanks for any tips and if it can be done, assistance with where/ who could address the scripting for such a thing...

Quik

Yes, at the moment I'm making a bot for a customer that follows a predetermined path by following preset "waypoints".



A script is another term for a computer program. An animation can be many different things.. for example, there are animations that control your avatar, that make one dance, or there are also textures which contain frames similar to a filmstrip, which, using a script function, can play an animation (like a really short movie or cartoon).



The no entry barrier only goes up 100 meters.. you can easily fly over that limitation, but the problem is scripts. Scripts running on someone's land can be turned off, and if a plane or other vehicle were pass onto (or over) the land, the script freezes because script execution is inhibited. That causes big problems because the vehicle is scripted AND physical. When you freeze the script, the object then just falls out of the sky. You spoke of having it follow a preset path, or set of waypoints.. you would have to keep the plane over land you own (or have control of in some way), so you could keep scripts turned on. More or less get the idea of flying around the whole of SL entirely, as you cannot control who does and doesnt have scripts enabled. You would have to restrict your tours to be over land you have control of.



Object or avatar, if it's attached to the plane it's linked, and if the plane were to turn, the avatar would turn with it.. basicly, you plane would have seats for people to sit in, and it would work just fine.


no problem

Thanks for the eye-opener...When you get done with the script for the other customer, I'd be interested in the same thing...IF I prefly the designated route myself to make sure the interference (Freezing) is not an issue, it should still work if I use a limited regional, small pattern approach...

Let me know how much $L for your application...I look forward to obtaining it...

Quik