Functions related/helpful to trigonometry?

I'll get straight to the point.
I have myself, and a turret. The turret copies my rotation in relation to either a local axis or a line drawn from me to the turret. So basically, whichever way I look, the vector of the turrets view is perfectly parallel to my own.
This is not good.
The turret is controlled in mouselook.
I can't apply any trigonometric functions because I only know two things:
My angle which the turret copies, and
the distance between myself and the turret.

If I look at a point in space, the turret is looking elsewhere, because its view is parallel to my own. However, it should be looking at the same point I'm looking at. Well, this could be achieved through some trig if I knew the distance from the point I'm looking at to myself or to the turret. A simple, quick, law of sines or cosines I suppose.

But there's no way to get a position on the point I'm looking at. It'd be easier to implement into the turrets script, letting it find the distance, but it would still need to know what point I'm looking at.

Is it at all possible or likely that you could add something like llGetAvatarViewPoint or something, or is there a way to find the distance with other functions?

I've moved this to Scripting Tips for further discussion to see if anyone has any bright ideas.

well im clueless on the workings of trigonometry, but couldnt you make the/a sensor on the turret detect your distance from it and then look at your veiw plus offset?


hope it helps

Maybe look into the camera functions - there's soem stuff that lets you find where the avatar's camera is pointed, I think. That might give you the coordinate you need, and from there you can calculate the rotation required on the turret?

I think he's after the position of the first thing the line from the avatar camera in the direction the av is pointing hits. And I don't think there's a way to get that, not without some ugly kludge - like sending probe prims shooting out from the av and reporting back the position where they collide with something.

Some suggestions here:
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If the turret is an attachment to your avatar's body, it's effectively positioned where you are, and then you can simply use a gun script for the turret.

It's not.