Can this be done?.....

Greetings all,

Can this be done?....

I have a Widget that I sell.

I want it to have the ability to give an EXACT COPY of itself to the person that owns it just before it DIES.

I dont want the Widget to be an "endless self-replicating" object... in other words.. the Owner will NEVER be able to get 2 or more Widgets from the one Widget (as it is set to No MOD/ No COPY/ Yes SELL)... but the Owner will not risk LOSING his Purchased Widget when it DIES.

This Widget WILL DIE at some point after the Owner Rezzez it... this is already known (unless the Owner Takes it before it Dies, in which case the Widget will not have Replicated itself...so the Owner still has only 1 Widget in possession).

Any Help is GREATLY APPRECIATED..and if you can show me how to make this possible...you will be my Hero for the Day!

I'm not a scripter, but it seems that the bit that can't be done is giving out copies and keeping it no copy. As they'd have to be a copiable version inside to give out. I think.. But I may be wrong..

Problem there: when an avatar is offline there is no way to add things to its inventory. Even if you could detect all possible causes of object destruction (simulator crash, for one, is impossible) there is not necessarily a way to get the copy home in time.

This is the general problem of vehicles that can be resold, so I would not count on a solution short of a change to SL.

ok, before all the doom and gloom scenarios that call for LSL to be radically different, lets get some more info...

How many copies do you suspect the widget will give?
What are the conditions that will call the llDie command?

Also, as far as giving the object to an AV as opposed to just rezzing it, you have a few options. However, you cannot give inventory to an AV who is offline, but there are ways around that problem. In fact I can think of a couple creative ways around that (thanks to the WIKI folks who always offer lots of possibilities). It just depends on how much "back-end" support you want to build into your project.

read this page in the WIKI: llGiveInventory

and IM me if you would like to discuss this further

Champie

You also might have a central server that the Widget llEmails before its death, then gives a copy to the owner from the central server.

I am really quite unclear as to how this differs from giving a "no copy" widget in the first place...

/esc

Or did you mean this... (with appropriate perms set)...?

integer count = 0;
float time = 15.0;
default {
    state_entry() {
        llSetTimerEvent(time);
    }

    timer() {
        if (count++ == FALSE) {
            llGiveInventory(llGetOwner(), "ME");
        }
        llDie();
    }
    
    on_rez(integer start_param) {
        llSetTimerEvent(time);  
    }
}