Sound on movement

Ok, I am looking to make the fuction that some collars have in them where they will jingle as a person moves around. I have been playing with this, but am having some issues, if anyone has done this before or has a tested solution, I would appreciate it.

Here are what I have tried and the problems:

moving_start event is set off when an anim moves so much as a hair... this leads to a constant sound

using the timer seems to be the best option at this point, having it check location every second or so, then if the distance is over an amount, play sound. I just want to make sure this is sensative enough to catch the person when they move a short bit (maybe 0.5).

I guess what I am looking for, is if there is a trick or something I am just completely overlooking. Thanks.

I would definitely use moving_start. This only leads to constant sound if, for some reason, you decide to play sound every single time you receive the event, rather than something like only when you haven't played the sound in some amount of time or based on how much they've moved since the last time you played it or whatever criteria you prefer.

I would suggest you look at an Animation Overrider script. Those trigger animations when specific conditions are matched. Use the same to trigger/loop and stop your sounds.

moving_start will trigger when you are just standing there if you have the item attached. Try it out and you will see what I mean. I had thought about just looking for the movement state like you suggest Squirrel. I will give it a try

moving_start/end is bugged when used in an attached object and do not trigger properly
there are other ways, but i will just point you to the wiki since it is fairly trivial

http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

I have been coding for quite a while and I am well aware of the wilki. I know that its bugged, I was wondering if anyone had any tested methods that worked well.

This is far from my first script, but rather than chase around this looking for the least buggy solution, I figured I would see if anyone already had gone through it.

Animation overrider was a good hint. I too would use a 1 sec timer to check
if (llGetAnimation(llGetOwner()) != "Standing"
or != "Sitting" / "Sitting on Ground", with an additional check if it changes from sitting to standing or the other way round.

i use a script ive mod it for walking and swimming,
this is the orignal script for flying:

default
{
     state_entry()
     {
           llSetTimerEvent( 2 ) ;
     }

     timer()
     {
           if( (llGetAgentInfo( llGetOwner() ) & AGENT_FLYING) && !isFlying )
          {
               //call sound or particle here
               isFlying = TRUE;
          }

          else if( !(llGetAgentInfo( llGetOwner() ) & AGENT_FLYING) && isFlying )
          {
               //stop sound or particle here
               isFlying = FALSE;
          }
     }
}

-LW

Awesome, just what I was looking for; simple and efficient. Thanks Lightwave.

A similar technique would be to use a timer to check llVecMag(llGetVel()) > some_threshold_value, then from there triggering the sound. You could even scale the volume based on velocity.

I had to change this a bit to get it to work. Added one line actually. The first one.

integer isFlying;

default
{
     state_entry()
     {
           llSetTimerEvent( 2 ) ;
     }

     timer()
     {
           if( (llGetAgentInfo( llGetOwner() ) & AGENT_FLYING) && !isFlying )
          {
               //call sound or particle here
               isFlying = TRUE;
          }

          else if( !(llGetAgentInfo( llGetOwner() ) & AGENT_FLYING) && isFlying )
          {
               //stop sound or particle here
               isFlying = FALSE;
          }
     }
}

Hay guys i'm really nooby so can someone fill in where it says //call sound and //stop sound for me

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=sound


You're looking for llPlaySound() and llStopSound(), both of which are on that page.

Thanks

not sure where i found this VERY simply script, but it works, jut implement whatever you need to into the not at target function. i do remember that whoever made it said they used it as a work around for moving and moving end for an attachment



edit: and i'm pretty sure it's not laggy right? no timers or sensors cehcking if the avatar is moving

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