Discussion: Water Event/Collision Detection

A workaround recently used to detect water & start a splash particle system for plane pontoons on landing:

// Script created by SiRiS Asturias.
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integer a;// Idle switch
default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		llSetHoverHeight(0.15,TRUE, 0.5);// Make plane hover
		llSetTimerEvent(0.2);//Land Timer
	}
	timer()
	{
		vector pos =llGetPos() -<0,0,0.2>;//Cuurent position minus offset
		float water =llWater(<0,0,0>);// Water height in the current Sim
		if (a == 1)// If idle
		{
			if (pos.z> water)// Check to see if we are off the water
			{
				llOwnerSay("In the air");
				llSetTimerEvent(0.2);//Took off, start landing timer again
				a = 0;//Set state back to airborne
			}
		}
		else if (pos.z <= water)// Landed on water, trigger particles and wait to leave
		{
				llOwnerSay("Water Landing");
				Water(); // Start splash particle system
				llSetTimerEvent(5.0);// Idle grounded timer
				a = 1;//Set state to water landing
		}
	}
}

This way the only thing it does each timer event is a water to current height comparison on the Z vector.
Could easily be modded to add only calling the llWater function per Sim change for even more efficiency per timer event.
Enjoy!