restricted movement

ok im doing a job app for Gnat Technologys you may have heard of them yo umay not of

as per the rules i dont want a script that will do what i want, examples are fine, but nothin that will solve my problem

how can i make a object move within the confines of a box?(AKA a computer screen)

Use an animated texture.


Please learn to type.

i type to fast for my own good

and an animated texture? how would i be able to move it around with the arrow keys then?

also the computer needs to be moveable so i need to know how to do this

Use the function that gets the world coordinates of the computer screen and probably the SIZE of the screen as well. Use these to figure out where your box is (i.e. (size / 2) +/- position) and before moving the box check to see if the position it'd be moving to is inside the box, if so, move it.

You could also use an outsize texture.

Make the texture's size equal to (screen's width + box width) * (screen's height + box height). When uploaded SL will helpfully undo this and apply a ratio that fits the whole texture onto the screen, so use the texture controls to undo this and create a 1:1 texel ratio. Then you can move the box around by changing the texture offset.

To move it around in-world with arrow keys, you'll need to take the controls of the user and test for them, using llRequestPermissions, llTakeControls and the control() event. Lots of examples in the wiki for that, plus lots of scripts use it.