A There Inspired Idea

There was something in There that I liked... (*gasp* he liked something in There?!) it was a force field. It's built in to it, and when you turn it on, you can move but you can't be hit by guns, and veichles won't push you. CAN WE PLEASE HAVE THIS?!! I REALLY DON'T LIKE GETTING HIT BY SILLY NEWBS OR PEOPLE WHO JUST DISCOVERED THE llPushObject COMMAND. Something built into the app would be UBER cool and UBER useful. Thank you

It should be two way though - no projectiles leaving it. Even then I think it can be circumvented. The only thing worse than being hit by newbies or idiots with guns I think is being hit with invulnerable newbies or idiots with guns.

Yes, revenge is sweet....

Hey Code, I like how we both logged off claiming we were going to sleep and proceeded to post on the forums instead

Damn your addictiveness, SL!

LOL I did the same thing last night!

Anywho, I agree 100% Ama. It also means no taking controls of anything, I'd say.

EDIT: Hey, any way you guys could mod vBullitin to include a rasperry face (Ya know, this guy: ) as one of the smileys? I use it a lot. Sorry, and tyvm

If you use a lowercase p you get

Imagine, I had to point that out to the resident board maven

I don't like the idea of adding the forcefield. Here's why:

In There, they made a huge, funny animation that occured when your AV got run over by someone else in a buggy or a jetboard or whatever. You also flew very far and slid along the ground in a painful looking manner. In other words, running people over was HISTARICAL. Thus, everyone wanted to run everyone else over.

In SL, this pleasure is not available, because if you hit someone with force, they usually fly so fast through the air that it instead looks like they teleported away. Not really as funny. However in SL we also have the ratings system which will motivate people to be good people. If you are a bad person, the ability to just smack someone far away should be available to you, so that everybody else can see that you are a bad person, rate you negatively, and file a complaint about you. That's how I believe the system does and should work. Prevention isn't the answer in this case, because it's infringing on the way someone may want to express themself. (Even if it is an expression of being a jerk, it should still be available!)

... Besides, if someone tries to hit you, just hit the f key and hover there. Nobody can smack you very far while you are flying, so that's a shield in and of itself.

Actually Dave, this is more for the llPushObject pushbullets. They're annoying, and they really pack a might punch.

Use llMoveToTarget(). This turns on damping, and when that happens, you cannot be pushed.

Not entirely true - it helps the minor annoyances, but it really just takes a bigger force.

I can't remember the content of the script, but I have a version of a script that Sleeper made way back in beta that I put in my wings.

It stops all outside force and I can't even fly/walk in any direction. but as some have seen it works on telling the script how far and what direction I want to move. If I am wealking and I say up it looks as tho I am falling up lol.


But basically I am fixed solid in whatever place I am in (usefull for scripting and such so that others cant launch me while im in the middle of something.

Was also usefull a few versions ago where your AV would move when certain letters were the last in your chat message as you hit enter

Reason #893452 of why SL is awesome.

"Let's add this feature to the game! ... Oh wait, I can just script it in myself!"

Can always rez a beanbag under you and sit on it.

Hey Charlie - As luck would have it, I was trying to write my own, less jerky, MoveToTarget() and I stumbled on just what you are describing.

Basically, you just have to do llApplyImpulse(llGetVel() * -1.0, FALSE)

Set a timer checking if you have any velocity, and if you do, give yourself a reverse impulse. Nothing will be able to move you very far.

Gravity is constant, so llSetForce(<0,0,9.8 * llGetMass()>, FALSE) will stop that and let you hover in place.

Ah uber cool! Please do post in the script library for all to enjoy!


Christopher Nomad:
Well there ya go