script needed

hi guys,

i am quite new to SL so you might not know me.

i have been looking for a script with no luck.

Is there a script that when an avatar touches a prim it can teleport them to a specific address? and how hard would it be to make?

No, the only place a script can teleport anybody is to their home point. What it can do however, is bring up the map with any location you like targeted. The user can then just click the teleport button to go straight there.

It is possible to move avatars relatively small distances, usually within the same sim upon clicking, which can give the same end result as a teleport.

I just checked, the maximum distance you can be moved using that technique is 300m in any direction. If that's not enough, you're stuck with the map.

I've just finished making teleport pad that will 'teleport' an avatar to any specific address within the same sim/region. Moving in 3 dimensions I've tested it at a range of up to 789 meters (diagonally from north-east ground level to south-west 760m altitude) and it works fine. It's almost instantaneous. I haven't tested it across sim boundaries yet but that's next.

So if you're looking for a way to get from one part of a region to another, say move between ground level and a skybox, then it will work just fine. There are a lot of teleport buttons / scripts available that will do this.

However, if you are talking about teleporting to different regions, i.e. going from one end of the mainland to another, or one private island to another, or an island to mainland, etc, then no, it is not currently possible.

There is something I've seen in-world called the stargate project but I don't know if it actually does facilitate cross-region teleporting or not.

-Atashi

Also, look into the warppos based teleporter in the library; it has a hard-coded limit of 1000m (actually, I think it's truely 1732 on a 3d diagonal). but it could easily be modified to go much farther. The only pit-falls with such a script is that if the path it teleports you along goes over land in which you are banned/no entry/no script your teleporter will get stuck (be a good idea to have it move up vertically a bit before going across and then back down). Also it cannot traverse over dead sims. The bug it exploits makes the teleport happen instantaneously, but the server sees the object as traveling over a distance. Also, there is a hazard of running into a stack-heap-collision for extremely long teleports (I hit one with an experimental 8000m teleport), so you'd have to possibly program in a memory checking loop to perhaps break down such a distance into smaller teleports.