Vehicles crossing Sim boundaries

I have been working on several vehicles from scratch and in all the searching in the wiki, the tutorials, the vehicle information, I am stillnot able to get my vehicle to sucessfully cross a sim boundary. I have the status set to return on the edge of the world.. What happens at the edge of a sim?

Any clues would help.

There are a number of problems that vehicles have crossing sim borders, but could you tell us exactly what you have observed with yours?

I get to a sim boundary and the vehicle just bounces off and will not go through at all. It doesn;t crash or disappear - just will not cross.

how many prims in one of your vehicles?

I only have three prims - two sit targets and a collison detector.

hmm, I was playing with llMoveToTarget() and had prims crossing sims. I wasnt seated on them though.

Perhaps, try to detect the coming edge of the simulator:

vector x_val;
vector y_val;

vector pos = llGetPos();

//this should detect if your current position is near a sim border
//the values are set at 10m before each border to give your vehicle time to react
if(pos.x > 245){
x_val = <15,0,0>;
}
if(pos.x < 10){
x_val = <-15,0,0>;
}
if(pos.y > 245){
y_val = <0,15,0>;
}
if(pos.y < 10){
y_val = <0,-15,0>;
}

vector target = <x_val.x,y_val.y,pos.y>;

//10 is the number of seconds. Making this a bigger number so the vehicle has a chance to move without screwing up the client of the person riding it
llMoveToTarget(target, 10);

Couple extra things with this, your vehicle has to have physics turned on for llMoveToTarget to work. Also, if your vehicle is too massive then it might not work either. Hollow prims are your friend.

This code is completely untested.

The only way I know of that a vehicle would 'bounce off' a sim wall, is if it's a wall of a sim bordering nothing. Like an island sim would have this happen on all sides.

So is it actually bouncing as if you hit something solid, or is the ship doing something else?

I think there's a flag you can set in llSetStatus that will cause an object not to be able to leave the region it's in. Something like llSetStatus(STATUS_SANDBOX, TRUE);. Look up llSetStatus on the wiki, find something that looks like that and put it in your script with FALSE as the second parameter.

According to the wiki, the sandbox flag puts more restrictions on the movement of the item than just not letting it leave the sim.

I think it even turns physics off, so on a physical vehicle, he would have more wierd things going on.