Swayin' in the breeze

Hi, I recently got into SecondLife, and have what's hopefully a simple question about building...

I create cube with dimensions of <.01,.01,8> that's supposed to look like a rope (yes, bear with me), and I put it in between 2 trees, to look like a piece of rope is tied between the 2 trees. I then put 2 copies of a chinese paper lantern I made on the rope...

Well, as you may have guessed, the rope and lanterns stay perfectly still, but the trees sway in the wind... At first this wasn't a real problem, but no matter how I align my rope, every time the wind changes and the rope is no longer touching the trunk of the tree...

So, is there a way to fix this? I tried linking the rope to the trees with no luck, is there any way to make objects sway with the wind, or solve this problem?

You are using Linden trees that are set to sway in the breeze. One (the easiest) solution is to use trees that were made in world, by individuals, not by Lindens. They are avaialable numerous places, many for free, but if you can't find them, IM me and I'll drop you some.

Yeah, I like how they sway in the breeze, tho... Would look even cooler if I could make other things sway in the breeze, but thankyou for the suggestion, I might end up doing just that! ^_^

I also have a huge folder full of trees and plants that would work for you, Im me in game and I will give you a copy

You could always script the ropes and fake it, its possible to get the wind speed and direction and then script the ropes to 'sway' according to that information. I cant script it (dont know the commands) but ask around and im sure someone could.

Awesome, Ryen, that's what I was looking for. If I can't find someone who knows how to script it or get something set up in a bit I'll post in the script forum then, thanks!

based on the linden trees and bushes sway in wind I am also seeking a wind sway script to apply to other objects, if anyone has this for gift or sale or commission, pls contact me.

I'm in the process of making a couple of scripts that pull data from the wind vector, but I'm not sure of the range of the values in the resulting components. Does anyone know the maximum in-game values of the wind vector components, or the maximum in-game wind speed? (It'd also be handy to know if those numbers correspond to any real-world velocity units.) In a quick sample of total magnitude, speeds returned a value around 1 to a value of around 15, but I have no way of knowing if those speeds could get higher under some circumstances.

Thanks,
Moriash

i've experimented with translating wind vectors to object rotations.

i found it to be a very efficient way to bring a sim crashing down around oneself.

Oh! I forgot I posted this! I got a basic version worked out, at (Swain 170,70)... They don't sway the same as the Linden trees, I actually made them move a bit more... I had to put a prim under the ground to "balance" the rotation and make it look right, but it works for trees and bushes.

Moriash, I've seen the windspeed get up to 30, but don't know if there's a "max", would be nice to know...

Buck Blanc, if you still exist, IM me in the game or let me know what your new name is because I don't see an existing player named "Buck Blanc" here, half a year later when I stumbled back across my post.

this is nice. the description says MODIFY, but they are no mod. i bought one to play with and test the stats. i might end up needing more though.

is the script itself for sale?

making the rope sway smoothly with the trees would be a pretty impressive trick, believe I'd like to see this. I think the way I'd go about it (the lame semi-cheating way) would be to make static prim trees, and static prim rope... but to script up some lanterns to fetch the windspeed and "sway" by turning on/off invis textures, i.e. three models per individual lantern that would switch off and on at high enough wind speeds. It doesn't really do exactly what you want but it gives the feeling of swaying in the breeze. Just a thought.

This reply isn't going to be constructive, so you've got my apologies up-front.

I wish that SL were as technologically mature as Half-Life 2. Not only we would we be able to string a real rope between the two trees, but that rope would be pulled to and fro by the trees as they swayed in the breeze, and the lantern would very realistically move about. God, I love HL2's Havok 2 implementation.

Along the same lines, when I was about finished with the Water Hazard level in HL2 , I found myself spending quite a bit of time wandering around looking at the plants and other environmental details. I wonder how much of that we are going to get.