Detecting Mouselook

I have created a little sprite that follows me around and goes to ppl when commanded.... etc

I want to teach this sprite to detect if someone has me targeted with Mouselook. Is this possible? Anyone willing to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,
Mist Hydraconis

not within LSL, no

llGetAgentInfo has AGENT_MOUSELOOK

What Day said, plus some checks to see how close their rotation is to the one that represents the directional vector from their position to you.

That's only part of the challenge, though. You can tell whether the agent is in mouselook, but you can't tell what s/he is mouselooking at.

Another partway solution ..... you can enable Show Look At in the Advanced >> Character menu to see what you and others are looking at, but I doubt that there's a way for a script to pick up that information.

YES YOU CANNNNNNNNNN!

You guys need to do some research before answering.

That's clever. The trick is figuring out "how close" you are to knowing that the other person is actually looking at you and not over your shoulder at something in the distance. Nice, though.

within LSL.... uhm no. not unless I've seriously missed some basic function.

you can tell if they are in mouselook, and you can even take a stab at guessing if their rotation is facing you (which is has a HIGH error margin thanks to the body rotation being a bit fuzzy, and trailing behind the soft head view), but you can't get whether or not they're actually looking directly at you, and the difference for angle when looking up or down between elevations is even more absurd since IIRC only z rotation is returned unless they are sitting on an object which is applying a rotation. and we won't even get into intervening terrain/objects/otherAvs...

Well, if they're aiming within a certain amount of degrees of your avatar, they're going to hit you with a projectile or whatnot regardless of whether they're actually aiming behind you.

Try this out yourself, minus the sitting part.

Nobody said anything about hitting me with a projectile. I thought the question was about whether you could tell that I was looking at you in mouselook. The answer seems to be, "Well, I can tell you're looking in my general direction." That's a pretty neat answer -- I like it -- but if you're going to be shooting at me, I hope you have a better reason than "Ma! I think he's looking at me!"

If you couldn't do this, I think they wouldn't be able to aim a projectile at you in the first place P:

even minus the elevation issue (used to be issue?) the other issues remain, and your 'few degrees" are magnified with distance (at 5m, no big deal, at 50m you're talking about being off by over 2.5m for only a 3deg difference).

now I'm guessing that the soft head rotation is ignored in mouselook but that still leaves the fuzzy difference between server and viewer, which I'm pretty sure is more than 3deg.

like I said, you can guesstimate, but you'll either have lots of false positives, or lots of false negatives in a casual environment (in a combat environment false positives are often considered a bonus, especially if you're on your own otherwise it's the old adage: friendly fire, isn't)


the problem is the server isn't using the same data available to scripts to calculate that firing.

There are HUDs that already do this feature accurately. It's not terribly difficult. In mouselook, the rotation returned by llGetObjectDetails is actually exact, and not as lagged as you think. Factoring distance in is relatively simple as well; just compare the distance from your point location to their line of sight instead of the angle.

well I guess I learn something new each day.=)
is it accurate across detected calls for mouselook as well?

that would reduce the problem to intervening object false positives, which is certainly bearable for combat, not so much for social, but potentially correctable (narrow beam sensor fired back along the LoS to get the nearest intervening object, might lose some finesse in extremity targeting though (head/feet))