I am a furniture builder and I like to include a bit of animation / automation in the things I build. I always get stumped, however, when I have a whole "section" of a build that I want to move independently of the rest.
Aside from having two separate groups of linked prims, is there a way with, perhaps, listen commands or linked messages to have one big linked build that has a section that moves? For instance, if I were to build a recliner I'd want the arms and the base to stay stationary while the back, seat and footrest move back and forth.
I know it's easier to describe with concrete scripting examples, but any help with the theory involved would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
Bartiloux Desmoulins
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Bartiloux Desmoulins
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Raeyan Aldrich
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11-11-2006 18:48
it is possible to do, feel free to IM me in SL and i'll do my best to help
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Bartiloux Desmoulins
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11-11-2006 19:41
Thank you! I sure will. -Bart
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Strife Onizuka
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11-11-2006 22:53
Once upon a time i wrote a drawer script. Oh was it a hack. I should probably dig it out of my inventory and rewrite it.
What it did was unlink from the base, move, then relink. That way it could handle the multiple parts. In the end you would want to adjust for prim drift. _____________________
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Jigsaw Partridge
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11-12-2006 04:36
We have a LazyBoy type recliner at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ranunculus/246/140/31/, if you fancy looking at an example.
You can click on the various parts of it, and they move independently in the usual recliner-type way. The chair also adjusts your avatar's animation as appropriate for the degree of reclining  The way this one works is with scripts in each prim broadcasting linked messages, there is a controller script which coordinates and synchronises the movements of the various parts. You can also link the chair (or several chairs) into a house, each chair controller knows to manage only its own set of chair prims. My only comment would be that this sort of scripting is not for the faint-hearted! SL seems to go out of its way to make it as difficult as possible to manage sub-assemblies of prims in a single linked object. |
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Bartiloux Desmoulins
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11-12-2006 19:06
Wow! I will scope out the recliner example ASAP. Thank you for sharing your design with me and with all of us who value the information contained in these forums!
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