Freezing your avi

Hi guys,

Is there a way in scripting to simply freeze your own avatar? I don't mean going into a standard 'T' stance, as with pose stands, I mean to instantly freeze your avi in whatever position it is in at the time.

Thanks

Rock

You can use llMoveToTarget in an attachment to effectively "fix" your avatar in position, but there is no way to "freeze" animations. All running animations will complete, and any new ones started will run, unless you detect them and tell them to stop. You can always start a high-priority overall "frozen" animation, but the transition to it will be jerky unless you make it with a decent "ease in" time.

I assume you mean 'with scripting', because as a sim owner I can right-click griefers and freeze them, no matter what they are doing at the time. In this specific case I want to freeze myself, as I am tired of being out shopping, and someone close by starts to chat (not to me, but to someone else) and my heads swings round to face the chat, as if I am nosy or something. If I am staring at some item in the store, (and usually answering IMs at the same time) I want to freeze my avi in place so I am not constantly changing my stand pose, and swinging my head back and forth when any chat occurs.

Rock

Hold down the ALT key, click and drag with the mouse. If you position your camera this way to focus on the product you are interested in (the spot you clicked), your avatar's eyes will not leave the point you have focused on no matter who chats. Played animations might change that, but environment will not.

Pressing ESC (maybe a few times if a UI window has focus) or a movement key will snap your camera back to its usual location behind your avatar (or to wherever the camera position has been set by a script).

Yes.

Look at the wiki for llRequestPermissions and also llTakeControls.

What it actually does is take over the input controls. Can allow them to be read, passed; or in this case, not passed. probably the only thing that someone can do is go into mouse looks and turn around, but this should fit your needs.

This only freezes movement, any animation that is currently playing will continue playing and finish if not looped.

yes, you can freeze your av, even in mid animation, no script required (in fact I don't see a script being able to pull off this trick)

open edit window, when your av gets somewhere you want to freeze it at, click any attachment. congrats, you're locked in place.

You assume correctly, since you set the context of the question yourself in your OP.



Not easily with scripting, but as others have suggested, you can munge with the UI to accomplish this somewhat.

animation overrides are your best friend.