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Water Depth
Mr Bellingshausen
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06-13-2009 17:25
I have an object that I want to float to the surface and stop there. How do I detect water depth where the object is rezzed so that I know how much "z" to add to it's current position so that I can set it to rise to the surface and stop there? I thought that sea level would be zero but it isn't.

I tried looking in llGetParcelDetails and llGetParcelFlags but I didn't see anything in there that would help. I may have missed it.
Sindy Tsure
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06-13-2009 17:26
Get ready to face-palm..

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlWater

:)
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Mr Bellingshausen
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06-13-2009 17:58
Ok...I am feeling stupid. I need to improve my wiki search skills. Thank you for the help. Slapping forehead with palm of hand
Sindy Tsure
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06-13-2009 18:07
No worries. Everybody's new sometime. :)
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Void Singer
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06-13-2009 20:35
it's also pretty safe to assume 40m =X

EDIT: 20 not 40
the reason is simple: for most sims water level is left at default so that surrounding void sims have matching water heights... there's about a dozen or so sims that use a non default, most of which are either mesa sims, or are completely lanlocked with all surrounding sims having land at the border that is above the default
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Mr Bellingshausen
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06-14-2009 14:05
Any suggestions on how to combine a working llWater script with a working llMoveToTarget script? Alone they work fine making them play nice with each other not is another example of my lack of scripting skills. I can't even find an example to work with.
Void Singer
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06-14-2009 23:29
vPosNow = llGetPos();
if (llWater( vPosNow ) - vPosNow.z > 0){
//-- move up
}
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Mr Bellingshausen
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06-15-2009 07:54
I am not seeing how that would work. Can you take a little time to explain your suggestion?
Ee Maculate
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06-15-2009 08:13
I just like the way that llWater returns a float :)
Meade Paravane
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06-15-2009 09:48
From: Mr Bellingshausen
I am not seeing how that would work. Can you take a little time to explain your suggestion?

Voids code is getting the current position and comparing the height against the water level. The "//-- move up" comment is where you would add code if you were below the water line..
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