How do I STOP a very large object??

I have a very large vehicle that is very close the the prim limit. I am having trouble finding a method to stop this thing completely without turning off physics.

I used to have the breaks turn off Physics untill I found out that passengers send me over the prim limit, and if they are sitting when physics goes off, then I can't put physics back on due to the prim limit, and the vehicle will just be stuck untill everyone unsits.

So I need another method. I tried

 llApplyImpulse(-llGetVel() * llGetMass(), TRUE); 

but that doesn't seem to do anything at all!! Even when all vehicle vector velocity is set to <0,0,0> aswell.

any help

Try dropping the friction timescales very low after setting the motor to <0,0,0>.

Something like:

stop() {
    llSetVehicleFloatParam(VEHICLE_LINEAR_FRICTION_TIMESCALE, 0.5);
    llSetVehicleVectorParam(VEHICLE_LINEAR_MOTOR_DIRECTION, ZERO_VECTOR);
    }

should do the trick

Do what Nikolai said and then do what Azelda said. Call llMoveToTarget(llGetPos(), 0); when you are ready to start moving again.

Thanks guys. I tried the Friction thing before, but I didn't know which way to put iy, way up or way down. Another thing though is that I used <0,0,0> instead of ZERO_VECTOR for the velocity, I wonder it that has anything ot do with it too.

Azelda, I think I'm falling in love with you. lol thanks lots again.

I could really use a better explanation of the vehicle prameters. For starters, which way increases the property and which way decreses it. Is 1.0 maximum friction or no friction at all? Just as example.

The Wiki does explain these well. :-/

The Friction timescales define how long friction takes to bring the vehicle to a complete stop, so lower is faster.
In my example above, the friction would stop the vehicle in 0.5 seconds. To disable friction you set the values ridiculously high (10000).

As the wiki says, vehicle stuff is actually very well described in the lsl documentation (lsl_guide.html in your SL root directory)

Thanks. I did the friction thing and it works pretty well. Well enough anyway. Doesn't stop it completely for some reason. I think some other setting is interfearing. The ship drifts up now when stopped. I need to change the boyancy or something.

Suprizingly the Move to Target didn't work. 0.o I don't understand why it seems to have no effect, but "they" say not to use that with vehicles anyway due to unpredictable results.

I went to the lsl manual. Yeah it's pretty good with vehicle coverage. I haven't looked at it since I first started with lsl and found the wiki to be my only hope. I have it on mozlia's hotbar now that I'm learning vehicles, next to the wiki link. Thanks.