My Work in Progress

Since I've found unpowered flight and teleporting to be a bit too jarring for my tastes, I've decided to create a flying vehicle that'll get me from point A to point B. What follows is my design process, which might be useful to folks.

Description: A surfboard-looking device with a rocket engine attached to rear. Designed more for ease of traveling than speed.

Features:

1. Sim friendly speed
   -This board will travel just a few hairs faster than flying. This should reduce problems with transitioning between sims
   
2. better altitude control
   -The board will have ascending and descending controls to better navigate busy easy areas and the problematic mountain.
   
3. no sky-scarring smoke
   -smoke trails just make things more laggy
   

ToDo list:
1. Make the basic shapes
-squished oval
-rectangular box. attach at end of oval
-4 cylindars. attach on rear of rectangular box
2. Add more bits to make it more aerodynamic lookc
3. Add new textures
4. add new sounds
5. Script tweaking
-uses the chopper hoverboard script as a base
-remove trick events
-include ascend and descend events
-lower speed
-test and document


Next Post:
-Screenshots!

screenies

try this again....

or maybe not.

dang

The pix were supposed to be me doing tests runs and stuff.

anyway, I've got it mostly done except for better looking textures and a final part on the script.

the script is giving me the most grief...I'm trying to get it to change its hoverheight when pressing the jump or crounch keys. I wish I could get my handson the fly script used to move the avatars around...that would have exactly what I'm working on.


of course a few hints from the forum wouldn't help either

Eu-FREAKING-reka!!!

the script problem I was having was a stupid basic mistake.
mistake:
current_height=HOVER_HEIGHT+5;
correction:
current_height=current_height+5;

a very obtuse mistake....cuz HOVER_HEIGHT is a constant and never changes.

new ToDo:
1. clean up code
-remove all extraneous crap.
-comment as the lindens didn't reall do a good job
2. Gussy it up.
-found a cool texure rotation script
-make a texture for the board?
3. figure out why i'm not allowed to upload images to the forum.
-probably becuase I have a free trial account.

lol i just did a float hover;
and put that at the llSetVehicleFloatParam(VEHICLE_HOVER_HEIGHT, hover);
and then at the CONRTOL_UP thing:
if(CONTROL_UP && blahblah ^dunnowhat it says here anymore^) { hover += 1;}
and control_down
if(CONTROL_DOWN && blahblah ^dunnowhat it says here anymore^) { hover -= 1; if(hover =< 1){hover =1;}}

thats how i made my vehicle use adjustable hoverheight via E and C or PgUp and PgDn

nah I wanted to have it so that its zero hoverhieght is off the ground, which is why I have a constant.

as for the rest of your solution, its pretty much the same as what I put together.


new ToDo list:
1. figure out I can HoBo it up around the snow sims.
-VEHICLE_HOVER_HEIGHT has a top end?

the vehicle sees hover 0 as zero hover... therefor i use a minimum 2 set the landing 'height' , i believe that the vehicle uses the center of the root prim as the center of the vehicle.(found that out when climbin steep hills) so i just measured the length of the ground 2 the center of pprim (parent prim) and set that as the minimum hover height! so it looks if it has landed! but it didnt . (note: landing on the damn hills isnt possible with this, especially downhill, uphill looks shit but its kinda elevated!)