llTeleportAgent??

The title of my post says it all... The wiki says this is a "future function" in 1.8.0.. Last I heard, we're now at 1.8.1(6)... With the following test script, I get "Name not defined within scope" on the end of the lookat vector.. Does this function exist now, or what, or did I zig when I should have zagged...

TasPerth

'**********************
key avkey;
string avname;
string simname;
vector simloc;
vector lookat;

default
{
state_entry()
{
}

touch_start(integer total_number)
{
avkey = llGetOwner();
avname = llKey2Name(avkey);
simname = "Isabel";
simloc = <37,227,35>;
lookat = <0,0,0>;
llOwnerSay("Teleporting "+avname+" to "+simname+" "+(string)simloc);
llTeleportAgent(avkey, simname, simloc, lookat);
}
}

This function was in the preview of 1.8. It's been pulled out for the public release I'm still waiting on it for a couple projects of mine...

Wonderful... LL strikes again.. I've got a really nifty looking teleport chamber just waiting for a function that will allow inter-sim transport.. Would there be ANY use in kicking a Linden in the shin up in the Linden forums?? (other than the joy it would give me...)

Thank you...

TasPerth

I really don't get it. They make us struggle with the Sit Teleport hack forever. All the time, threatening to "fix" it. They resist P2P at the same time.

Then, without warning, they jam P2P into the 1.8 release in a way that was arguably disruptive. I like P2P, btw, I just don't like the way LL did it.

But now, there's no reason in the world that we shouldn't have llTeleportAgent() and they're still dragging their feet.

I think they're waiting to "sneak it in" so those wishing to grief by teleporting visitors all over the place won't be ready.

Well, I'm a relative newb, but what I see with LL, is that they are VERY good with the design/implementation end of SL, but woefully lacking in the operation/management piece..
But that makes them virtually identical to SOOOOO many other modern corporations..
They seem to forget, again, like most other corporations, that you ignore your user community at your peril...

Tas

Agreed. I suggested to them that they default P2P "off" for all non-Linden lands and let landowners turn it on as they wanted. That would have avoided a lot of the confusion. I *still* occasionally find myself in someone's bedroom or inside a security script's range when TPing on the main map.

I was told during the 1.8 Preview that llTeleportAgent shouldn't be expected til 1.8.3.

Be patient.

P2

Actually, what I really want is llTeleportVehicle(), which would teleport the vehicle and all riders in one step.

Not only would this make it easier to go places in groups, you could "fly" to the islands!

DeLorean that teleports to future sim, a 50's sim, and an Old West sim....

Oh, yeh.

Also, if llTeleportObject() was "set-uid", so that it teleports with the permission of the script/object owner instead of the rider, you could create a vehicle that could take people to a sim or parcel they couldn't get to any other way.

So you would have to ride the time machine to get back to the future...

That would be cool to have on llTeleportAgent too, go through a stargate and end up on a sim or parcel you can't normally teleport or go to. That would be great for games with multiple levels etc. You can already get to a parcel where you don't have access to kinda in this way though, by sitting on an object and setpos'ing it inside, but that's a bug that hopefully will get fixed.