Vehicle limits.

I am relatively new to Second Life and LSL, and wanted to try my own hand at making a vehicle, mostly so that I could fly higher than about the ~200m limit of the avatar. I started out with the one of the free 'airplane' scripts that takes over the direction keys and attached it to a physical object, but I found that it lacked the control I wanted. Physical objects just don't seem to accurately go where I want to go.

So instead I created a non-physical object, and attached a script that takes over the direction keys when I sit on it. It then uses the direction keys to increment x, y, and z coordinates by 10m and calls llSetPos() with the new position. This is very simple, and works quite well. In fact, a bit too well. It seems I can go anywhere, even through walls. I got read the riot act by a club manager for riding this thing through his club disrespecting the normal means of entry. It allowed me to go into private rooms that were not publically accessible, though it does seem to respect access restrictions applied to the land.

So, this is my question - is this sort of 'vehicle' allowed? I was rather suprised that such a simple script can allow an avatar to violate the physical restrictions of walls so easily. Does using such an object break the rules in any sense?

Sure it's allowed. I have one for sale that's quite popular and very handy for building (that's why I designed it - it allows for very precise movement and without the issue of bumping into the object you're trying to build).

Even if you don't have a script at all you can replicate the "moving through solid objects" thing by:

1. rezzing a prim
2. sitting on it
3. editing the prim and moving it around

You become non-physical when you're sitting on a non-physical object.

People might well think you're being rude by doing that and give you an earbashing, but it's not illegal, unless you use it to harass somebody, at which point it would come under the usual ToS. There's no real way to prevent somebody from entering an area in SL apart from (a) banning them, which only protects up to 20m or whatever it is from the ground, or (b) having a security script that activates in that area. If a club owner wants to have properly private rooms he or she should use one of those methods, or have people buy passes, or something.

Yes, I figured that one out quite by accident.

As for by 'vehicle' I guess I will just have to be polite in my usage.