always rotate down?

All right, here I go again.

So what I'm trying to do is create a droid thing that follows me around, and since I'm a dufus with rotations I thought someone might be able to help. The bot continuously rotates towards a set target, so their nose is pointed at the person. What I need is a prim on the underbelly of the bot to always be facing down, like an engine or something.

My basic script set up is (for now) a timer event that when called every second rotates the engine prim towards the ground. I have tried using llSetRot, llRotLookAt, llSetLocalRot, and they all had some sort of effect. The prim never ends up pointing at the ground, it either constantly rotates around a certain direction or it flips back and forth between two directions. Is there an easy way to make a child prim stay in a certain rotation in relation to the ground?? I cant seem to figure it out. Any help would be nice

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oh really?
: D more like

Maybe llSetStatus(STATUS_ROTATE_X | STATUS_ROTATE_Y, FALSE);

is what you're looking for. It should lock rotations over certain axis.

Wiki llSetStatus

not quite, I want the parent prim to rotate and set status will negate that. What I'm looking for is a bit of code that will point a child prim in a certain direction regardless of the parent prims rotation.

yeah, of course you dont understand, billy. You're too busy with the world...and zombocom

zombocom? bah =\ stinky you play WOW?

Put this in the child prim, inside either a timer (ugly), or a messagelink responding to movement/rotation of main prim.
Quick solution with timer shown:

rotation rot;

default
{
    state_entry() 
    {
        rot = llGetRot();
        llSetTimerEvent(1);
    }
    
    timer()
    {
       llSetLocalRot(llEuler2Rot(<0,0,0>) / llGetRootRotation());
    }        
}

oh dear god! thats it? I'm such a retard with rotations. Thanks a lot

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