New to Scripting, quick question.

I was trying to make shoes that played sounds only as each foot struck the ground. I assumed I could do this with collisions (I'm new to scripting so forgive me)...but it would not work. Maybe I did something wrong or maybe it won't work at all? Can an attached object detect collisions?

Well, I would imagine also that you're generally colliding with the ground...which is a different type of collision (land_collision).

To be honest though, I have not tried making an attached object detect a collision and there is the very real possibility that it either:

a) Won't detect collisions

or

b) Will detect collisions anytime any part of the avatar is 'colliding' with anything (possibly even the attachments themselves)

ok well thanks for answering

The walking animation is just an 'illusion', so to speak. In terms of in-world physics, your feet aren't striking the ground, so land_collision functions aren't going to work for this; in fact, as long as your avatar is on the ground, they'll be generating continuous land_collision events.

What you'll likely want to do instead is detect when the avatar is walking, and if they are, then play a looping footstep sound crafted to roughly match their walking animation. So you'll want to check llGetAgentInfo() on a timer, or something like that.

Attachments are phantom and thus need to use llVolumeDetect

thanks guys!