Animating linked objects

I want to animate an object but have it linked to another. For example im creating a washing machine and want the drum to spin around. However when i link both objects together, both rotate. How do i get it so only the drum rotates but is still linked to the rest of the washing machine.

I suggest you post to the scripting forum.

I think it might be possible to animate the texture on the drum so that it looks like it is rotating - but this may not be quite what you had in mind.

Ok a little out of my field but ill give it a shot.

The last prim you link in a set of prims becomes the “root” prim. From what describe the last prim you linked is the prim with the rotation script and so becomes the root prim. This causes the whole object to rotate.

If you link the prims where the prim with the rotation script is not the last prim linked, the prim with the rotation script will rotate independent of the other linked prims.

The people in the building forum or seconding Sylvia’s suggestion, the scripting forum, will be in a better position to explain what is happening.

Yes it can be done.. I hired a scriptor to make scripts to do just that... You are in the wrong forums though

IM me in world, and i can put you in touch with the scriptor that made the script

I'd go with just rotating the texture. If this is a washing machine I don't see why someone would need to actually rotate the washing drum. This isn't real life and getting the drum to physically rotate really doesn't do anything. All that matters is that the drum should look like it is rotating and I think a rotating texture does the exact same job as putting a texture on a drum and then rotating it. Sorry. I don't mean to make any kind of rant. Sometimes there are several ways to accomplish a task and that is the way I'd handle it. This is similar to animating propellers on airplanes and I recall that there are threads like that in the scripting forums.

There's a free tool that you can used to animate linked objects. It's called Puppeteer. You don't even have to script

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