Taking Controls

Hi Everyone!
I'm writing a script for an attachment, placed on the spine, that needs to detect when the movement keys is pressed, in order to play one animation while the avatar stands still, and another (move) animation, while the avatar moves...

I couldn't get anything to work, while having it is an attachment, so is trying with it as a hud, but if anyone can tell me, how to make this work, while still attached to the spine, please let me know...

anyway, my problem is, that while it is a hud, the animations work, but I can only move in one direction... so, please have a look at the code, as I'm about to give up on this.

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llRequestPermissions(llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION | PERMISSION_TAKE_CONTROLS);
    }
    run_time_permissions(integer perms)
    {
        if (perms == 20)
        {
            state animated;
        }
        else
        {
            llResetScript();
        }
    }
}

state animated
{

state_entry()
{
    llStartAnimation("stand");
    llTakeControls(CONTROL_FWD,TRUE,FALSE);
}

control(key id, integer held, integer change)
{
    if (held & CONTROL_FWD)
    {
        llStopAnimation("stand");
        llStartAnimation("move");

        vector pos = llGetPos();                             // I was told that theese 2 lines would
        llMoveToTarget(pos+<0.0, 5.0, 0.0>, 0.5);  // work, but can't get the avatar to
                                                                       // change direction.
    }
    else if (~held & change & CONTROL_FWD)
    {
                                                                      // Have placed this one, for when the
        llStopMoveToTarget();                              // avatar is standing.

        llStopAnimation("move");
        llStartAnimation("stand");
    }
    else if (held & CONTROL_BACK)
    {
        llStopAnimation("stand");
        llStartAnimation("move");
    }
    else if (~held & change & CONTROL_BACK)
    {
        llStopAnimation("move");
        llStartAnimation("stand");
    }
}

}
[/end code]

hope anyone can help me with this!
- Stephen

I guess to start, probably the call to llTakeControls should use TRUE as the third, "pass_on" argument, so the agent will just move as normal... unless there is a special reason to use llMoveToTarget to push the agent around. (If there is, then the offset to the target needs to be rotated to be in front of the agent, as in .)

But, if the intent is just to override the stand and walk animations, tracking the control inputs might not be necessary. One might start with the ZHAO script (GPL'd open-source, available in-world) to see how that works. (It may still be useful to llTakeControls, but do nothing with their inputs, just so the attachment script will continue to execute on no-script parcels.)

There are probably other ways to do this specific kind of animation override. I don't think I've tried this, but using moving_start and moving_end as triggers for testing llGetAgentInfo might be sufficient.

But I'm not totally sure that the AO functionality is all that's actually desired here.

Two questions:

What exactly do you need the move to with the animation for?

Are you trying this in Beta/Aditi? If you are then, movement is seriously broken and it is not a good place for testing a script right now.

llMoveToTarget will not change an avatar's facing. It will simply move them to a particular point. Unfortunately I am not aware of a function which _will_ reliably change their facing.

The reason I am asking is instead of using movement controls, why not just use llGetAgentInfo in a timer to see if the av is walking, moving etc?
Think AO.

Thanks for the help
I tried moving_start and moving_end, but that didn't work for me, so instead I tried setting the Pass_On argument in llTakeControls to TRUE, and that seems to work perfectly!
Thanks a lot everyone!