Newbie scripting question

I am trying to make a door swing open and since the vertex of the object cant be changed to be anywhere but the center, how do I get it to swing on the edge of the door. I am coming from Active Worlds and am too used to just being able to type "create rotate 0 3 0" in the command box. Plus anything created as a door, was made with the axis on the edge of the model.

Thanks in advance...

Take a sphere, dimple it 50%, then change the prim type to a block. You'll get a block with half the width cut away and the center on an edge.

Oohh cool!

Another way to do it is to start with a block edit it, then under the Objects Tab where it says Path Cut Begin and End change those to B: 0 and E: 0.5 or even B 0.5 and E 1.0 whichever floats your boat.

But Argents way is way cooler

Ok cool!

Thanks

And I'm stylish!

Yeowsa! Be still my beating heart!!

Now they are swinging like a doggy door, from the middle..*sigh* what do i change to make it work right now?

Do you mean that they are swinging up and down? Probably the easiest thing to do is just rotate them until they swing the way you want them to. Alternatively you *could* mess with the beginning and ending settings on the path cut entry but that might not do you much good.

Turn the prim on its side and change the door script to match. You want to rotate around the world Z axis.

I did rotate them, then had to make them wider to fit the doorway and ended up back at square one with the axis in the center-lol

I tihnk maybe i can just replay with the cuts...i may firgure it out eventually

Actually I'm almost positive Argent has it right and you'll need to futz with the script - which script are you using?

Path cut the block

Start 0.125
End 0.625

That puts the centre on an edge.

Done - Expert to the rescue hahaha