Help Making A Wheel Spin??

Hi and thank you in advance for any help....

I am looking for a script that will make a wheel spin using the right click pie menu. Once spinning, I need this wheel to slowly come to a stop after 2 or 3 seconds.

This is not a vehicle so I'm trying not to turn physics on. The scripting Wiki explains commands such as llsetforceandtorque and llapplyimpulse for kinetic force on physical items only.

Is there a way to accomplish this without turning physics on? And if so can anyone show me how? (keep in mind I'm a complete newb to scripting )

I finally have the object spinning correctly with the right click menu. (Thank You Eric)
Now I just need it to slow down to a stop

It's easier to make it slow down with physics on. There are several possibilities. If you're using llTargetOmega you could do something like this to make it slow down to a halt.

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS, TRUE); //Enable physics
        llGroundRepel(1.3,FALSE,0.1); // Make the object hover above the ground
        llSetStatus(STATUS_ROTATE_Y|STATUS_ROTATE_Z, FALSE); //Make sure it doesn't rotate it ways it shouldn't
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
       //Loop for slowing down the rotation to a halt
        integer i; 
        for(i=2;i>=0;i--) 
        { 
            llTargetOmega(<1,0,0>, i*0.1*PI, 1);
            llSleep(1);
        }
    }
}

You could also use llRotLookAt

RotLookAt would be pretty similar.. Something like

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS, TRUE); //Enable physics
        llGroundRepel(1.3,FALSE,0.1); // Make the object hover above the ground
        llSetStatus(STATUS_ROTATE_Y|STATUS_ROTATE_Z, FALSE); //Make sure it doesn't rotate it ways it shouldn't
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llRotLookAt(llGetRot() + <0,0,0,1>, 1, 3);
    }
}

I think I can get it to work with the targetomega command. I'm still tweaking it to see how it goes. But......I need the wheel to stop at a random location, as it is now its rotating back to the original starting point before it stops. Is there a way to get it to stop at a random location around the radius of the wheel?

Apply a random rotation immedaitely prior to applying the physical impulse? I'm kind of surprised that the physics are that deterministic, but accept your evidence as true.

Incidentally, last I tested it, llFrand() was sufficiently random, with nearly low-grade encryption randomness. (I say "nearly" as I was just testing for game level random and didn't get enough data to prove higher grade).

How would I do it using llFRand?

Here is what I have so far....I did accomplish the proper spin without using the physics...

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetTouchText("Spin");
    }
    
        
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llSay(0, "Spinning The Wheel.");
       integer i; 
        for(i=25;i>=0;i--) 
        { 
            llTargetOmega(<0,1,0>, i*0.1*PI, 1); 
            llSleep(1); 
        }
    }
}

Calling llTargetOmega repeatedly in that is might not be the best of going about this. If llTargetOmega is used on a nonphysical prim it doesn't save its current rotation when you call it again. Better to use llRotLookAt, it works nonphysical too. Maybe something like this will do.

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        integer i;
        for(i=0; i<10; i++)
         {
            llRotLookAt(llEuler2Rot(<i*PI / llFrand(5),0,0>) * llGetRot(),0.3,0.3);
        }
    } 

This did the trick, but now its spinning on the wrong axis LOL. I need it to spin on the Z axis, right now its spinning the X axis. Is there a way to set which axis to use with llRotLookAt?

Yeah, this should spin on z
llRotLookAt(llEuler2Rot(<0,0,i*PI / llFrand(5)> * llGetRot(),0.3,0.3);

Thank You very much Zepp Zaftig and Introvert Petunia That did the trick perfectly!