MoveToTarget Help?

Having a really hard time with this.

I'm rezzing an object with 10 velocity the object contains this code

key target;

default
{
state_entry()
{
target = llGetOwner();
llSetTimerEvent(.2);
}

timer(){
list details = llGetObjectDetails(target, ([OBJECT_POS]));
vector position = llList2Vector(details, 0);
llLookAt(position, 10, .1);
llMoveToTarget(position, 1.5);
}
}


It fires out at 10 Velcity and then freezes and wont move anymore, but the rotation still works, the object is Physical.

You might try, instead of llList2Vector, use (vector) llList2String.... if the list contains a vector but it's in string format, when you use llList2Vector, no matter what it is, it'll return a zero vector. It does this for a lot of other types too.

vector position = (vector) llList2String(details, 0);

I think all you need to do is call llStopMoveToTarget() (and llStopLookAt() can't hurt, either) before you call llLookAt() and llMoveToTarget() again.

still now working even with just llMoveToTarget and the stop.

it works once the person it's ment to follow moves again but while there still it wont move.

Most odd. A prim containing

key owner;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
       llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS,TRUE);
       owner = llGetOwner();
       llSetTimerEvent(0.2);
    }

    timer(){
    llStopLookAt();
    llStopMoveToTarget();
    list details = llGetObjectDetails(owner, ([OBJECT_POS]));
    vector position = llList2Vector(details, 0);
    llLookAt(position, 10, .1);
    llMoveToTarget(position, 1.5);
       
    }
    
}

is following me around perfectly happily as I write this.

Yeah so it must be something to do with my rezzer, whitch is no mod.

Would there be another way to do the same thing llMovetoTarget does?

I've tried look at with local force/impulse, but it doesn't really work

Oh.. I hadn't really taken on board that it's coming out of a rezzer. Try resetting the script on_rez to make sure state_entry() happens. Or move the stuff that's currently in state_entry into the on_rez event. See if that helps.

all thats happening fine, I'm really struggling, even when I put it in a different rezzer it works.

it just freezes mid air

Even when I make the rezzing syntax the same, the diferent rezzers one works, one causes the freeze.

The only option I think I have is to do it without llMoveToTarget but I don't think that's going to be easy

I really don't think that's the issue, Nyx. I've just added

on_rez(integer p){
llResetScript();
}

to the script i posted above, and put the object in a rezzer with this script

string contents;
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
       contents = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_OBJECT,0);
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llRezAtRoot(contents, llDetectedPos(0 ) + < 6.0, 0.0, 0.0 > * llDetectedRot( 0 ), ZERO_VECTOR,llGetRot(),0);
    }
    
    changed(integer change){
        if(change&CHANGED_INVENTORY){
            llResetScript();
        }
    }
}

and it works perfectly.

the code goes in a vehicle and once it's in their i get the problem thrown up.

I'm wonderingif I could turn the object into a vehicle and do it that way

Ah, well the fact it's a vehicle makes a bit of difference, i think.

I can't quite visualise what you're trying to do, but assuming you want to rez a vehicle that follows you round till you get on it and drive it, why not try making it start off as an ordinary object and only become a vehicle -- by setting the appropriate flags -- when you sit on it?

I dont need to drive it, it just need to follow someone after leaving a vehicle, but since llMoveToTarget doesn't work I need another way.

Heres final llMoveToTarget try:

Object Rezzed:

default
{
on_rez(integer unused){
llResetScript();
}

state_entry()
{
llSetBuoyancy(.9);
llSetTimerEvent(1);

}

timer(){
list details = llGetObjectDetails(llGetOwner(), ([OBJECT_POS]));
vector position = llList2Vector(details, 0);
llMoveToTarget(position, 1.5);
}

}

Rezz Script

llRezObject("object to rez", llGetPos()+<3,0,0>*llGetRot(), <5,0,0>, ZERO_ROTATION, 0);

--

Shot from a vechicle in motion, moves a little, stops dead and refuses to move unless llGetOwner() moves around for awhile.

--

Any ideas on fixing this, or a work around not using llMoveToTarget would be very very helpful

How far does the rezzed object need to travel, when it is rezzed from the vehicle? llMoveToTarget will fail if you ask it to go 65 meters or more. You can still use it if you chop your movement into smaller segments, or use llApplyImpulse or something to get roughly there and llMoveToTarget for the last leg.

what!

Yeah that would proberly be it.

Why doesn't the Wiki or anywhere else mention that?

I can just send it to half way between then all the way, if the 65 meters this is the case.

Thanks Viktoria

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlMoveToTarget

I would not use llMoveToTarget() with the vehicle system active. They use two different sets of algorithms to operate physically, and can conflict. If you must use llMoveToTarget(), turn off the Vehicle system beforehand and, as Viktoria says, llMoveToTarget() will silently fail to move on any distance 65m or greater.

(the 65m limit is in both wikis, btw)

The 65m thing was missing from the "new" wiki but it's there now.

Ahh. Good deal, then.

You're triggering the timer event ever .2 seconds, yet, your tau in llMoveToTarget() is 1.5 seconds??? I think you may need to understand llMoveToTarget() a bit better. What exactly are you trying to do, and why do you need to call the timer event every .2 seconds? Why not just set a target (llTarget()) and process using the at_target() and not_at_target() events?

Maybe if you describe what you're trying to do I could help out. The code you have listed makes no sense, and doesn't surprise me that it's freezing the object. If a vehicle is rezzing the object that's no big deal, weather the rezzing object is physical or not makes no difference. Also, why are you rezzing the object with a velocity to begin with if you're moving to a target .2 seconds later? Like I said, I don't think you fully understand llMoveToTarget very well.

vector offset = < -1, 0, 1>;  //1 meter behind and 1 meter above owner's center.
 
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS, TRUE);
        // Little pause to allow server to make potentially large linked object physical.
        llSleep(0.1);
        llSetTimerEvent(1.0);
    }
    timer()
    {
        list det = llGetObjectDetails(llGetOwner(),[OBJECT_POS,OBJECT_ROT]);//this will never fail less owner is not in the same sim
        // Owner detected...
        // Get position and rotation
        vector pos   = llList2Vector(det,0);
        rotation rot = (rotation)llList2String(det,1);
        // Offset back one metre in X and up one metre in Z based on world coordinates.
        // use whatever offset you want.
        vector worldOffset = offset;
        // Offset relative to owner needs a quaternion.
        vector avOffset = offset * rot;
 
        pos += avOffset;       // use the one you want, world or relative to AV.
 
        llMoveToTarget(pos,0.4);
    }
}

Wouldn't this do the trick?