Mixer Board

I'm getting really annoyed at the physical physics. I'm trying to make a mixer board with actuall slides that.....slide up and down but when I put it on physical they just shoot out. This is what I have right now, a hollow box as the base, and angled squares with spaces in between them. I have the slider which is longer than the space and is attached to a board below the squares....if you want too see I can send you a copy but it aint pretty. Any help would be good. And if anyone knows how one could have a sound longer than ten seconds, it would be nice to know. Thanks to anyone that helps.

To have a sound longer than 10s you have to use two sounds.

And physics in SL is really not useful for any parts smaller than about half a meter across. You lose 20cm just in the collision envelope.

What you want to do is have scripted prims that use llDetectedDrag() and position themselves continually using llSetPos()

I'm sorry to be so picky, but did you mean grab instead of drag, cause i couldn't find llDetectedDrag(). Just wanted to make sure I use the right one.

Yeh, I meant grab. Stupid ferret, got a brain the size of a peanut.

You mean, as in ....

touch(num) {
vector oldPos = llGetPos();
vector slide = llDetectedGrab(0);
llSetPos(oldPos + slide.z);
}

? I didn't know you could do that. Neat.

ok, i've gotten this to work somewhat

vector pos;
vector Pos;

default
{
    touch_start(integer num)
    {
        pos = llGetPos();
    }
    
    touch(integer total_number)
    {         
        Pos = llDetectedGrab(0);
    }
    touch_end(integer num)
    {
        if( Pos.x > .5)
        Pos.x = .5;
        if( Pos.x < -.5)
        Pos.x = -.5;
        pos.x += Pos.x;
        llSay(0, (string)Pos.x);
        llSetPos(pos);
    }
}

CODE


any info on how to make it slide diaganally or that it doesn't move more than a certain distance, meaning that if i'm at .4 it doesn't add another .5, would be nice.

anyone?

Keep track of the last dragged position, and subtract the change the previous value.

To convert a change in X to a movement along another vector, multiply the vector by the movement.

eg:

xyvector = llVecNorm(<1,1,0>; // unit vector along the xy axis

newpos = basepos + xyvector * (pos.x - prevpos.x);