Thrown into air when getting out of vehicle - help!!

When I get out of my car, which I built myself, I get thrown about 20 metres into the air and then fall to the ground. It has the Aaron Perkins free car script and sounds, which work well otherwise.

I've been given another vehicle which has the same scripts and the same thing happens. I suspected it might be to do with my AO but I've seen someone else get up normally from the driving seat of a similar vehicle and they had an AO on as well.

Any ideas where I should be looking to solve this problem - it hasn't always been like that.

From what you describe this doesn't sound like anything to do with animation at all. Sounds like you are getting forcibly ejected from a bounding box.

Either open up the driver area so your sit target isn't in a prim bounding box, or have the script unload your AV outside the bounded area.

I would ask in the building or perhaps scripting forums.

yes, he's right. When you sit you become non-physical. But as soon as you unsit, your avatar becomes a physical object again. If you are penetrating a prim, the physics engine (Havok 4) will attempt to force you out of the prim. It's pretty normal. So as suggested, don't enclose yourself, or have the car turn phantom on unsit.

My car doesn't turn phantom on 'unsit' although I don't know about the other one I acquired. But I saw somebody else in an identical car stand up normally on the driving seat. Both vehicles types are open topped and there are bounding boxes of some cut prims that overlap the driver's space. But I used to be able to get out of my car normally - the sky hurling is a recent phenomenon!

Is a custom sitting/driving pose an option for you? This type of thing can be overcome by scripting the sit target off to the side (outside the car) and using a pose that compensates by placing the hips way off to the side in the opposite direction so you end up back in the driver's seat. Alternatively, make the sit target quite a ways above the car and use a pose that sinks the hips way down. Either way, the idea is that your avatar isn't *in* the car when you stand up, so SL doesn't feel the need to violently spit you out.