Vehicle door

Anyone out there have or know of a way to have a door on a vehicle?

I have a large ship with a curved half end and Im needing a door for the back end pefibly clickable on open...
I have tryed some of the normal door scripts but cant find one that doesnt rotate out of position

Greetings, I think doors wont work on vehicles for a few reasons, but I could be way wrong.

Isnt it that vehicles have to be physical and all the prims have to be linked, so if you link your door to your vehicle it wont work properly, correct?

If doors are do-able on vehicles my suggestion would be to keep modifying the door script you have till it works for your application. Also modify one small thing at a time to make it easier

I saw some vehicles with sliding doors in cordova...that would be the best place to hang out and ask questions about such a thing....

the idea I have is that the physically moves the prim over so many units (local distance, not a universal one).

Coco's right - it's perfectly doable.
Movement (as in llSetPos) is easy, as it's just a position relative to the root prim. Rotation is a bit trickier as llSetRot doesn't take into account root prim rotation properly, but it _is_ doable.

I have a similar application for such knowledge. I want to be able to rotate a linked prim in one of my vehicles, but I cannot understand llSetRot() at all. The reference says:

"If the object is not physical, this function sets the rotation. If the object is a child, the position is treated as root relative and the linked set is adjusted."

It says it is treated as root relative, which suggestes to me that I don't have to worry about the root prim's rotation. But it talks of the position being root relative, I want to set the rotation! Is this a typing error in the reference?

Any way, all my attempts to use llSetRot() have failed, I can only ever make the prim randomly rotate in a seemingly unpredictable manner. I've tried compensating for whatever causes this behaviour, but i'm lost with whatever llSetRot() uses, quaternions I think.

Could somebody please give some more information on how to use llSetRot() to do this. Thanks.

Hey thanks Ezhar Fairlight. I don't understand the use of ZERO_ROTATION, nor do I understand the need for LLGetLocalRot(), but it works a treat!

TXGorilla, u want a sliding door??? i made one, just contact me in SL... hmz ill try and post it here! (its on touch)
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edit croll down for the good script sorry for the problems the wrong one has caused
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this makes the door slide upward when touched
llGetLocalPos or llGetLocalRot gets the position or rotation relative to the root prim, it also uses the Axis of the root prim.
ZERO_ROTATION is a constant which equals <0,0,0,0>, this can come in handy if you want it to revert to zero rotation or something. I used in my airbus and it works , if it doesnt for u contact me (although im going on a holiday next week, to italy , so i might not be online that much)
Oh and Doiv, you figured that out right, rotations use qauternions (WHICH I HATE ) so i just use a llEuler2Rot() which converts the euler rotation (xyz) to a quaternion. be sure to 'mulitply' it by DEG_TO_RAD so it wont be screwed up.
phew lotsa text here i hope i have helped anyone!

When I try to run this I get a syntax error on line 5, pos 0.

Am I stupid or am I ovelrooking somethig obvious in terms of matched pairs of parens - because I don't see the cause of the compile error?

sorry could be my mistake!!! gonna check!

edit:
the correct script (that i use!)
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integer SWITCH;
default
{
state_entry()
{
SWITCH = 1;
}

touch_start(integer tn)
{
if(SWITCH == 0 )
{
llSetPos(llGetLocalPos() +<1.5,0,0>;
SWITCH = 1;
}
else if(SWITCH == 1 )
{
llSetPos(llGetLocalPos() -<1.5,0,0>;
SWITCH = 0;
}
}
}
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Sliding? You think small. I have a swinging door. It just takes some clever doing.

lol i thought he wanted it sliding... anywayz i have a rotating one that i will totally script for u, just contact me in world oh and if someone else wants it, just contact me!!!

If anyone ever wants doors for their vehicles, I can help you with those. Just IM me anytime. I like to install them for some reason.