Looking for rocking chair script

I am looking for a script that would make a chair rock back and forth. Does anyone have one?

Huh... realistic rocking-chair motion would actually be kinda tricky to implement, I think. I'm gonna hafta puzzle over this, 'cause now it's stuck in my brain.

shouldn't it just be a tube, cut in 1/2, with a dead wight that changes position? Or two dead wights that change their wight.

Oh! Heh, I forgot about physics, there. I was trying to figure out how to do it non-physically.

My first ever script in SL was a non-physical rocker. It was a poor example of scripting, since I wasn't aware of the various resource drains at the time. I'd post it if I weren't embarrassed about that fact... and that I'm not in-world right now.

But the script resides in an invisible prim along the rotation axis and on the ground at the contact point. It goes something like:

--get the position and rotation (in case the owner spins the chair to a new angle)
--set a timer for 0.5 second
in the timer event:
--subtract (amount of rot) from the rotation variable //go back a step
--setrot
--add (amount of rot) to the variable //go forward to the init pos
--set rot
--add (amount of rot) to the variable //go forward again a step
--setrot
--subtract (amount of rot) //go back to the init pos
--set rot

loops until something kills the timer

It didn't produce a totally smooth effect, but it did a nice job simulating something like a rocking chair.

I have seen hamocs that seem to use the non-physical way of doing things. And it looked ugly because it wasn't smooth at all. But these were done by "people who know what they're doing" or so I think, so this suggests a physical rocking hamoc or chair must not be easy to do.

I've done a few non-physical rocking chairs and hammocks and yes, it either looks ugly (not smooth) or is a huge resource drain, too much for a simple chair. Physical way of doing this is a pain, because physics at the present state can get pretty unpredictable, especially if the server is having hickups.

But I finally got around and tried to make a hammock script that uses physics for swinging and the end results look amazing when compared to non-physical movement, although you need to do some checking from time to time and reset the whole thing (position, physics) if things get out of control for any reason.

I have a rocking chair that does a pretty good job at, well, rocking!

I doubt if I can peek inside the script, but at least I can tell you who the creator is so he/she can assist you.

I'll IM you the info when I get home tonight.

- Tito

There is a rocking chair for sale at Joan's Marina (Kissling 225,159) for a mere L$30.00.