llMoveToTarget and sensor events

I'm doing a bit of fiddling with a simulation of a queue of people moving through a series of waypoints with some llMoveToTarget calls.

Something I'm trying to do is keep them spaced a certain distance from each other, but everything I've tried with llSensor and llSensorRepeat doesn't seem to work.

Any thoughts?

Spaced in what respect?

I think what you're asking for is to have the object "path" between two points at fixed intervals. This is pretty easy with a little vector math:

vector target = <100,100,100>; // Assume your target point is given
speed = 5; // Speed of movement (number of meters to cross per)
dampening = 0.3;  // llMoveToTarget dampening variable


if(llVecMag(target - llGetPos()) > 10) // If we're more than 10 meters from target
{
     llMoveToTarget(llGetPos() + (llVecNorm(target - llGetPos()) * speed),dampening);
     // Let's break this up a bit.

     // We're telling it to move to the original position plus five meters toward the target
     // This only happens if we're more than 10 meters away.
}
else llMoveToTarget(target,0.3);
     // Otherwise, we just move to it.

For more information on helpful vector math, you can try the following links:
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=vector
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llVecMag
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llVecNorm
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llVecDist

http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/algebra/vectors/index.htm

What I'm looking for is a way of having each member of the line check the space in front of it to see if the person in front of it has moved ahead, then move ahead to fill that space.

Oh.

There's a great article on sensor use for that sort of purpose on the wiki. See here:
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llSensor

My guess is you would want to play with rotations and sensor params for that. Say... limit the arc a bit and drop it to a certain distance, ya?

I've been doing some investigating, and it looks like llSensor might be behind this.

I've been spending the last couple of hours tinkering with that... think I'm getting close to something.

Success!

Turns out it's easier to scan, then move, rather than scanning while moving.