Is this posible?

Hi Everybody,

I was thinking of making a couples hud (kiss/cuddle) without poseballs.

Is it possible from script to get the 2 persons on the correct locations and angle to
each other?

With lot of kiss/cuddle huds without poseballs the locations of the persons is
often not good (to near to each other or wrong angle).
I don't want to use poseballs because i want to use it also where ppl don't have
build/rez permissions.

does anyone know if this is posible and give maybe some tips where to look at.

thanks in advance,

Kaylan

Yes, it is certainly possible.


I believe there is a function called llPointAt or something that orients an agent to look at a specific location. I'm not sure if it works though, it might be defunct.

Unfortunately that function didn't make the cut out of beta. You can still fake it using avatar autopilot, attachments will accept physical movement commands and a little nudge in a given direction will get your avatar pointed that way.

The usual problem with these kinds of setups is that only one avatar is wearing an attachment, so there's no good way to get the other avatar to automatically face the right way. The autopilot stuff is a little wonky thesse days too, avatars have a roundish collision shape since Havok 4 so you need to take more care not to bounce away. Height mismatches tend to be trouble too. But despite all the awkwardness (and maybe because of that!) they can still be fun.

Well assuming you know the rotation of the avatar that isn't wearing the hud, you could use llRot2Fwd to find the position the "hugger" should be at. Then you could somehow move the "hugger" to that position... I'm not sure how to go about doing that though.

Oh, llMovetoTarget will do the trick, and a sensor etc. to find the other avatar's spot.

Does llMoveToTarget work with huds? =o I hadn't realized that lol.

Sure, with that and llApplyImpulse etc., you can make a HUD or any attachment drag you all kinds of places. That's what a lot of those "dash" sorts of devices do too.

Thanks Cypher and Victoria,

I will play with this and see if i can make something.

Think that to get the rotation/angle of the other avatar will be
difficult.