Riding Someone's Attachment

I know that it can be done, but I can't seem to figure it out.

You have a horse, or a scooter, or a boat, or a small hamster that you wear and use as a vehicle. If someone else tries to ride with you, they can only see the person's profile. As in, they click on the scooter, and get that pie chart that you get when you click on someone.

So, the a/o or movement script is in the wearable object, but the object is mod - is there a way to add something so that someone else could ride with you without messing up the a/o or movement script?

The only thing that I can think of is to rez something, sit in it and then wear the horse or scooter or boat. The other passengers sit on the rezed item. The movement script is in the rezed item. The rest of the vehicle is worn by the driver so that there can be a lot more detail than 29 prims or whatever the limit is currently.

The problem with that method, in this particular instance, is that the movement script or animation override is in the object that the driver wears. I could rez a prim and sit on it, and others could sit on it, and then wear the scooter, but it will not move.

Is there a way to allow someone to ride along with you if the movement script is in the item worn?

I am probably writing gibberish at the moment, but I hope someone is able to read it.

I thought this was going to be another sex thread.

The av's that you can ride have a saddle they can rez, you and the person in said av sit on this. Creating the effect of riding the av.

They can't all be sex threads

I would like a personal public apology for your highly insensitive statement regarding using rodents as transportation.

The hamster personally asked me to ride her, so no.

This reminds me of the ridable avatars (e.g. dragons) that you can get at Grendel's and Isle of Wyrms. I've always assumed this was done by having a Sit Target in an attachment, which shouldn't interfere with the AO, and that the whole avatar with the person sitting is moved not with a script, but just with arrow keys as usual.

But I've never looked into it to actually confirm that. It would be really easy to try, tho! If you really intend to try it, I would post the question in the Building Tips forum.

*contemplates putting a one-click teleporter into an attachment, hehe*


/edit --- yeah, like Lesle said
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Oh that's very different. Nevermind.

Well, it could be.

Taking this in the usual direction that these things take in SL: If you attach a prim, can someone else sit on it? If so, then can it be scripted? If so, who needs poseballs?

Oh, see that's the problem I picked up a scooter last night and there was some question about how I can let them ride it with me. I am not really a builder myself, though. I did build a boat and had people sail with me, so I have some very limited skill (as in I can build a prim box, put a free movement script into said box, and then get three people to ride my "boat".

I guess that I could try adding something, like a sit target, to the scooter, since it is mod (have no idea how to do that). Must investigate further. Oh, and the other forums scare me. The mere idea of posting over there.

Thank-you.

I watched someone with a transformable motorcycle avatar get ridden by an Anime school girl avatar last night. (^_^) It was a scream to watch, and even more fun when I found out how to flip them over. (^_^)y

And I was quite interested in the possible new twist on the topic, as I don't recall actually discussing "riding an attachment" in any of those earlier threads.

/me starts contemplating the various avenues of derailment that are now available.

I had a guy tell me once that if I was interested, all I had to do was click on his um... attachment

I thought about this too Soji. i think it would be cool if someone else can sit on say... the arm of a scooter, or something. But i dont have a clue how.
Would a poseballs work? If you linked an invisible sit ball into the chair? or some sort of script?

Yeah, and if your not interested, then click on it 500 times

Now, that would be funny!

Put it somewhere where your xcite bits (ok, if you had any) would be.. watch the rude clickers get tped away to Mari's neighbor's parcel...

)

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Can't tp from a script the best you can do is open a slurl or move them with in the same sim

Alright, this and the link about Ricardo's 'projecting' have forced me to ensure that I swallow my drink BEFORE I read your posts.

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Gah, I'm a pervert too.

Well, as you demonstrated last night, you can change the scooter. So . . adding a poseball . . . might work. . . wait, still have the "being able to click on poseball instead of seeing that pie chart" issue. I think.

Must be some way to do this multiple sitting on an attachment.

well there are attachments which can let you sit on them - graph has a walk one which attaches and i sit on it - it makes us walk hand in hand, or one of us carries the other. So it must be possible.
I'll have a mess around tonight - I have a sit poseball which should work

I don't think that it is possible to sit on an attachment.

Vehicles have a limit of 30 (31?) prims.
Complex "vehicles" are a combination of a very basic vehicle and an attachment worn by the 'driver'.
When passengers sit on the 'vehicle' they are actually sitting on the basic vehicle. The attachment worn by the driver just happens to be sharing the same general space.

A have one car/auto like that.
The basic vehicle is just 4 wheels and a prim to sit on. All the scripts are in this vehicle.
If I don't turn off my AO before sitting, the effect is a tad alarming, as the attachment does not line up with the wheels.
It can still be driven like that. The car/auto body is no more 'the vehicle' than is any other attachment that I might be wearing.

Well, I hope you get it to work

And I've seen those attachments before. I have no idea how they work. There is one for my kitty avatar that allows people to pick me up and carry me around. I haven't bought it as . . well who would want to carry me?

The problem is that the a/o, movement script, is in the attachment that the driver wears - that "car/auto body" and not in the "simple basic vehicle" (which does not exist yet). It is a scooter that you wear and then move in, as opposed to rez and sit on. I didn't build it so I can't remake it so that the scripts, etc. are in the basic vehicle.

You can not sit on attachments. I've made several things that look like someone is riding the attachment, but what's really going on is both people are riding a vehicle, with their respective sit targets arranged in a specific way. For instance, my dragon saddle consists of a mostly-invisible vehicle, and a harness worn by the dragon. The dragon sits on one poseball of the saddle, and the rider sits on the other. It looks like the rider is sitting on the saddle, but they're actually sitting on the vehicle. Gadgets that let two people hold hands, piggyback, etc are all done this way.

There are several ways to make it look like one person is riding something, but if you want to carry a passenger, you have to use a vehicle.