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I need a way to foil the space bar jumper

RacerX Gullwing
Magic Rabbit
Join date: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 371
03-07-2005 19:34
I hold the snail races a couple times a week and have known about this for a while
the thing is if you close the chat window then jump if you repeatedly or hold down the space bar you don't fall down you go into a controled glide at fall speed. Well I tried it a few times and if you don't land just right you fall on your face. So figured not much of an advantage but then I saw someone who spent a few days practicing and could float around corners and manuver across a sim using this trick. Well I imedaitlly instated a you can't do that rule. And Will be disqaulified if caught trying. but I can't watch every snail the whole race. So I follow the lead Snail.
Hoping some one knows a way to add a script to the Snail shell that will make this move impossible. I would just set the no fly script to no jump too but there's a lot of places where you have to jump or you can't finish a lap. Something that either detects the chat window closing and locks you down or detects the space bar being pressd while the chat window is closed.
Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
03-07-2005 23:26
What about a script that detects if you've been in the air too long?
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Champie Jack
Registered User
Join date: 6 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,156
03-08-2005 00:03
wow, I never knew you could do that! not that I want to abuse it, but it is intersting that it is there.

Ok..the Wiki has a script that shows you the current animation running..these are the state of the avatar, not animations called by llStartAnimation()/llStopAnimation().

S you can do what Carnildo said and monitor the length of time spent in a Hovering/Flying/Falling/Jumping animation. If the time exceeds whatever you determine to be exploitive then the script (requires modification to "time" specific animations) can IM you and you can warn/disqualify/ban the individual.

Does that help?

Champie

here't the link to the Wiki page for llGetAnimation
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