llMoveToTarget Disable Z Movment?

** First Problem - Is there a way to disable up and down movment so it just falls out of the sky and follows only the X/Y ? like a normal physical prim with no script.

** Second Problem - I cant seem to keep my pet upright he sometimes flips sideways or upside down =P


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As to your first problem:

Would it help to set your target to the same as the current position?
Something like:

...

vector target = <anyX, anyY, anyZ>;

vector CurrentPos = llGetPos();

target.z = CurrentPos.z;

...

As to your second problem:
My pet does that too! Help!

first problem:
your description and statement conflict... do you want the object to move up and down or not (disabling z MOVEMENT will prevent up and down)

if you want it to go only up and down then just use the z component in your target offset.
target = llGetPos();
<target.x, target.y, target.z + offsetUpDown>
reverse that if you want only floor style planar movement
<target.x+ offsetFwdBack, target.y + offsetLeftRight, target.z>

second problem:
top = llRot2Up( llGetRot() );
if (top.z < .9){
//-- we're tipping oever, fix it
llSetRot( llGetRot() * llRotBetween( top, <0.0, 0.0, 1.0> ) );
//-- I think that's the right order, if not swap get rot and rot between )
}

llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS, FALSE);
llSetRot( llGetRot() * llRotBetween( top, <0.0, 0.0, 1.0> ) );
llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS, TRUE)

My object is physical llSetRot will not work. But its no big deal ill just take off the physics llsetrot then turn them back on. Also my first problem - I think I explained myself quite well but who knows - I just want it to follow the X/Y the pet is a ground dwelling creature. But if it say walks off a cliff it dosent fall it just keeps on walking around on air.

Maybe we have to implement our pets as a VEHICLE?

It looks like many things have been pre-cooked for vehicles, that maybe we cannot implement in any other way?

I do like Void's idea to watch for too big a tilt and quicky switch to a RotTarget restoring the upright position only when we are about to fall over... Thanks for that Void!

Yea that helped me alot also. Ty Void

eh sorry, for physics you could use apply rotational impulse and better yet llRotTarget

this is a bit of guesswork here, but should provide a basis

llRotTarget( ZERO_ROTATION, PI / 8 );

not_at_rot_target( ){
  vVecTop = llRot2Up( llGetRot );
  if (vVecTop.z < .9){
    //-- you may have to play with the multiplier here, and the true/false
    llApplyRotationalImpulse( <vVecTop.x, vVecTop.y, 0.0> * (1 - vVecTop.z), TRUE  );
  }
  //-- I probably royally screwed up on this part, you may need to invert the vector as 1-*
  llRotTarget( llEuler2Rot( <vVecTop.x, vVecTop.y, 0.0> * PI ), PI / 8 );
}

eh screw that... even when I got rotational impulse down to ZERO_VECTOR - <x, y, 0> it was still crap... use the physics switching.

ZERO_VECTOR - <???, ???, 0> * TWO_PI, TRUE
that's as far as I could get

PS never EVER hold both ctrl and shift when grabbing a physical object.... that's applying an impulse... it's like it builds whyile you're grabbing and explodes out.

yea I agree physics switching is much better =P thats why I havent really tried to use impluse for the movments from point A to B I like the smoothness of llMoveToTarget I just wish it would follow the terrain not just the ground - Prim terrain also. Maybe its wishfull thinking unless I use llStopMoveToTarget with a Delay after the pet gets to point B but that just causes the other parts of the script to lag behind. So I been looking for a way to stop llMoveToTarget.z where it only follows X/y letting .z find it own hight by falling or w/e. like a physical non-scripted prim would do if you dragged it into the air and let it go. it would just fall till something gets in its way.

it's nasty, but you could precheck the new position at a height above your current plane, and drop a sensor ball there to get physics height.... that'd be REALLY ugly though.