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Sollie Villota
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03-15-2008 03:46
Not the typical sort of question from what I can tell, but here it goes.
What is the correct way to make a sensor as "small" as possible? This is for use on an attachment to be used in Mouselook, so the angle wouldn't be an issue, I just am having trouble using what I am currently using. Is this way correct or not?
"PI / 1000" (which is what I am using for my 'float arc') barely works, but it seems to just depend on where I am aiming at on certain scripted objects.
I am either doing something really wrong or I am just at the limits of a limited scripting language. Any ideas?
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Void Singer
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03-15-2008 05:40
sensor picks up object centers, so smaller isn't necessarily better
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Haplo Voss
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03-15-2008 06:25
You might also just try using a variation on the sensor cone.
I've found that a reasonable sized "directional" sensor works pretty good. I use PI/50 myself and it seems to work really well for detecting object / avatars in whatever direction I'm facing.
Like Void said... too small and you will start eliminating possible pings after a while.
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Sollie Villota
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03-15-2008 12:02
I was affraid of that! Same thing for avatars I presume?
And thanks for the info, I would use PI/50 but I need it for long ranges.
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Void Singer
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03-15-2008 18:06
yup same for avatars, I made a visible cone demo for a friend, that you could walk into, if he hips don't go in, the sensor doesn't fire... have fun looking at av's crotches...
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Hewee Zetkin
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03-16-2008 11:57
It won't help with the efficiency of the sensor, but if you want to test whether a sensed object intersects with the primary axis of the sensor (x-axis) after you widen the arc, you could use llGetBoundingBox() to approximate the size (and maybe shape to some degree) of the object, then do some very simple ray tracing.
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