Can I lock a teleport pad?

I've got several rocks and stepping stones on my property that teleport to various places in my house('cause I'm lazy ... I've got the pie menu text changed to say "Sit Here" instead of "Teleport" in an attempt to disguise them, but I'd like to be able to lock it or script it so that only I, as the owner can be teleported. Any help?. Thanks a bunch.

You probably want to check the scripting forums.

I can see a vehicle and click it's RIDE button (same slot as TELEPORT), but if I am not the owner of the item, it kicks me off and won't operate. Likewise, I've rented apartments where there is a TELEPORT button that only works for the renter, no one else can activate it.

There surely is some sort of if/else type coding that can check IF you are the owner, then teleport, ELSE say "sorry bud" or simply do nothing at all.

I am no scripter, but there is a whole subforum of them who can answer this easily. You'll likely get the fastest and most accurate answer there.

The problem with sit target teleporters is they work too quickly (for all intents and purposes, instantaneously); by the time a script checks to see who is sitting on a prim, and whether or not it is you, it's too late and the person in question is already at the destination.

That said, it's possible to rotate or move the prim if an unauthorized person is detected, so that the target ends up, say, buried in the ground straight down from the original rock unless they are VERY quick hitting the "stand up" button. If you dabble in scripting at all the scripting forum might be a good place to ask about modifying your teleporters to do something like that.

The more obvious solution is to require a left-click before sitting, to "activate" the teleporter if and only if it's you who clicked. Unfortunately that goes against everything we lazy people stand for, so I only mention it for completeness's sake

It can be done, but you might need to dig for scripting. I have teleporters made by Zonax Delorean that will only work for avatars on a list created by the item owner.

they also have camping scripts that only allow group members to use them. you might look into creating some sort of group that only you and your alts will be part of, for that type of use.

'college of scripting' has some great walls of info, and really nice and helpful folks who will make a custom script for you (for a large fee) if you can't fidn anything elsewhere.

good luck.

IM me in world Dagmar, i can make the script for you... it's a fairly simple script.

I think my TP pad system is full perms, it has a 'group' only function. You have to make sure even you are wearing your group tag before you can use it. IM me and I'll see what I can do.

Go buy a teleporter from Omega. You can set it up to TP to different locations in your house just by adding the coordinates. It gives you a drop down menu when you click on the teleporter.
You can also set it up with restrictions on who you want to use it. private, group...whatever.

Once thats all done, you can right click on it and edit the teleporter. I edited one to remove all of the pieces except the actual prim that holds the scripts. I then edited that prim into a sign with a logo on it...you can change yours into a stepping stone and give it a stone texture.

OR....go buy yourself a MystiTool which has a storage feature for frequently used landmarks. I use this to hop around to spots at The Botanical Gardens, like my home, workshop, infohub, current building site....

I am particularly fond of teleporters from Dreamtech.

They are sim-wide warpPos teleporters that allow for permissions to be set for owner, group, and public. If the public isn't allowed in a certain place, the option to teleport there simply won't show up.

I don't have the LM handy at the moment, but it should be fairly straightforward to find the sim that houses the vendor for these teleporters. (I will try to post the correct location when I get back from work).

The best thing about these teleporters is that, while they are not transferrable, they are copy/mod... so you could feasibly modify them to work with your environment. They are also very close to free - $1L - and all updatable to a common script via HUD.