Animating TWO avatars...

How can an object animate two different avatars at once?
For example, if u make a kiss-script which makes two people kiss, how would you explain to the script which avatar you want to animate.

The function llStartAnimation only takes one parameter (the name of the animation), but how do you tell it which avatar you want to animate??

You need two scripts, one for each avatar. llStartAnimation will target the last avi that you got permissions for. Each script requests the permissions for 1 avi and will animate that avi. The scripts can communicate thru llMessageLinked.

Lyn

Take a look at the hugger script posted elsewhere in this forum. Should give you most of waht you need.

It could in theory still be done with a single script, once you get permission from the hug-target to animate, the script can pull the owner over to them, start animating the target then quickly request permission to animate the owner (who automatically grants it).

Possibly... but the chance of out-of-sync anims due to lag would be higher I think. And if LL ever changes the behaviour of permissions for something you wear or sit on... I'd stick with 2 scripts.

I don't think it's a permissions problem, exactly. llStopAnimation() doesn't take an avatar argument. I think a script forgets any previously animated avatars if it starts animating a different one.

Unless you need a couples animation that lasts longer than 30 seconds (and thus requires a looping animation) then that's not really an issue, as you can just use an animation that plays once and then stops by itself.