Keeping the Swordsman Still

Heyla!

I'm revisiting a sword script I had modified and used a while back for a sword I had made, and now I'm thinking that I would like to add a new feature to it, one that keeps the swordsman from actually moving in the direction of the arrow key. In other words, I would like the swordsman to remain in place (or stand still) while still playing the sword swing animation. Is there a simple way for me to accomplish this, such as slipping in an extra line or two in the control event?

If there isn't a simple way to accomplish this, I'd still very much like to know what information I should begin studying.

Thanks for your help!

Keeper S. Karu
(KeeperS Karu)

You need to capture the control keys without letting them pass through.

What I do is have separate states for "ready to attack" and "idle", and I call llTakeControls with the appropriate third parameter depending on state.

For idle, I call it with TRUE to allow the control keys to control movement, but when the idle state detects the mouse being held down, it switches to the "ready to attack" state which calls llTakeControls with FALSE as the third parameter to lock the player in place.

HTH

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All right. I'll give that a try and see how it goes. Thank you!