Meele Weapon Help

I'm trying to make a Meele weapon for Linden damage, i've been rezzing a transparent box with damage enabled infront of the weapon. The problem is when your running you run into it. If I use llGetVec();, it works until you run backwards then it slams into you.

Any ideas?

llCollisionFilter may be your friend here. What I do is, in on_rez, use llCollisionFilter to filter out collisions with the owner; then set llDamage in collision_start, after verifying I've hit an avatar. But my melee weapons are set to interact with objects I create as well, using collision_start to identify them, so my solution may be needlessly complex for you.

Jack, have you tried your method with Linden damage, as opposed to that inflicted by a combat system? I thought that Linden damage happens, and the object dies, before the collision event is ever called. I could well be wrong -- it's ages since I've done anything with Linden damage -- but the wiki seems to suggest this is the case.

I'll test later, but I'm pritty sure it wont work with Linden damage.

There is a way to do it, cause others are using meele weapons.

How about detecting your opponent's position when he collides with the transparent cube and, if he's close enough, then have the cube rez an invisible projectile -- targeted at him if necessary -- to do the damage?

That is a good idea, it could just rezz on top of him, a micro sized prim.

Innula, I don't set the object to be Linden damaging until the collision event fires -- the call to llDamage is in collision_start. AFAIK, you are correct.

Thanks, Jack..what a clever way of doing it. I feel a bit like Dr Watson after Sherlock Holmes has explained something to him.. blindingly obvious when it's spelled out, but I'd never have thought of it myself.

Yeah that explanes it, thanks Jack.