Sim Radar Staying in a box.

I'm making a sim radar that will be a mini version of the current sim, a prim will rezz for each person and need to update based on their position.

How can I scale this down to say a 1meter box?

What would I do to edit the position of the actual person, to be a cut down to be relative in a size of say 1 meter box version.

Say there position is:

<99.697280, 133.924100, 20.351980>

I want to rez a prim to represent them in a 1 meter box,

so

Rez a root

But then what do I do to this value <99.697280, 133.924100, 20.351980> to make it work for the 1 meter box.

Thanks

This might give you a start...



Rime

Oddly,

The 3D doesn't seem to work from there?

So still looking for some help

i was doing a mapped hud radar for the emerald viewer. it had several layered prims with an alpha texture with a numbered dot. i put it in the center and then in gimp i offset it so a quarter of it would be at each corner so when the texture was offset on the hud, the dot would be centered on the correct position, i'm pretty sure the calculation i used was the avatar's position divided by 128. so your result would be < 0.778885, 1.04628203125, 0.15899984375 >. for texture offsetting, the Z axis wouldn't matter because it's ignored. but for a radar box, you might need to add an offset for the box size.

That IS odd. Jesse's 3D Radar is a beautiful script. You did create two objects, right? The display sphere and the tiny one that the script rezzes inside every time it detects an av?

Yeah but the balls positon were never updated based on the avatar, whitch is what I'm lookin for.

Does anyone have any example code that does this? or any more tips.

Really struggling with the scaling down part.

If it could just not leave the box it's rezzed from that would be awesome.

This is the long way around but should be easy to understand.

1. Find the avatar's position as a fraction of a 256m sim:

vector Pos = llDetectedPos(x);
Pos.x /= 255.0; // 0.0m to 255.0m
Pos.y /= 255.0; // becomes 0.0 to 1.0
Pos.z /= 255.0; // Altitudes over 255m are automatically > 1.0

2. Adjust relative to the middle of the sim/rezzer

Pos -= <0.5, 0.5, 0.5>; // now -0.5 to +0.5. (And higher for altitudes above 255m)

3. Scale for your rezzer land-prim

vector Me = llGetScale();
Pos.x *= Me.x; // EG; on a 2m-cube rezzer
Pos.y *= Me.y; // -0.5 to +0.5
Pos.z *= Me.z; // becomes -1.0m to +1.0m. Don't stretch it for higher altitudes.

4. Rotate for your rezzer land-prim

Pos *= llGetRot(); // ... possibly, but since I ALWAYS mess-up rotations at first, check it!

5. And finally, position for your land-prim

Pos += llGetPos();

I don't understand what you mean by "the balls positon were never updated based on the avatar." That's exactly what Jesse's script does, and it does it beautifully.

Sorry,

All sorted now, yay.