Recoil

We have been working all day on a gun script.

It's perfect except for one thing. When shooting, my own avatar gets pushed backwards as the bullet is sent out. Yes, the bullet does have some mass, but is there a way that people have found to counteract recoil?

From the wiki:

Recoil is applied to the rezzing object/avatar when it rezzes a physical object with a velocity. Large objects rezzed with a large amount of velocity will push with a large amount of force onto the rezzer, while a small object with small velocity will give negligable force (for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction). The formula for finding the force is as follows:

-(velocity of rezzed object * mass of rezzed object)

Use this in a llApplyImpulse statement to counteract the recoil.

This doesn't seem to work. I tried applying the impulse to the attachment before and after the rezzing of the object with the velocity vector.

Has anyone made this work?

I haven't tried either way but since rez has a small delay try making the rezzed bullet apply the impulse to the shooter on rez instead of the attachment applying it. Easier to detect the mass of the bullet on the fly that way anyway.