09-15-2005 09:43
I'm not sure where to put this. but I'm sure the answer lies in scripting somewhere.

I’ve created a nice little simple avatar
But what really frustrates me is that I need to use invisibility primes in it.
Since almost the entire avatar ends up being inside one big box with the invisibility prime on it this usually results in 50% of the attachable objects not being there even though the invisibility prime is only meant to hide the avatar. At best parts will flash into and out of existence every 30 seconds or so.

This is what the avatar would ideally look like:
http://www.iol.ie/~nightmare_visions/wcf.JPG
http://www.iol.ie/~nightmare_visions/wcb.JPG

I'd pose a this is what it looks like now pic but the invis prime is actualy behaving!
It knows its being watched.

What I’d really like to do is create an animation override that makes the avatar fold up into a ball like the meat wad animation or other similar ones available.
After an investigation of a few open scripts I managed to canabilise one from a can of beer so that would make my avatar fold up nice and neat under the chair when it was attached and the invisibility prime would only have to be under the chair thus only causing problems if people looked up from below at it.
Sadly it doesn’t last.
As soon as you start walking in any direction or turning legs pop out and begin moving about, if you fly it looks like someone just got run over, or if you begin typing the upper torso of the avatar swings up from beneath the seat and starts the typing animation.
This all looks really weird and quite amusing sometimes but it’s not exactly what I was aiming for. :P
Anyone able to help me create a script that will allow the avatar to curl up into a ball and stay there?

And if anyone happens to know where I can get clear pictures of one of the silent hill haunted wheelchairs it would really mean a lot to me as I just can’t get the creepy little things anywhere.

Once this problem is solved I'll move on to creating a ghostly figure to sit in the chair and flash into existance every once in a while
Or maybe I could get a pose ball to follow me and flaot over the seat and alow people to ride the chair.