hud activated sit animation? Plz help

Scripting is not my friend, but i am trying!

I am making a hud attachment and i need a button on it that activates an animation. The hud is a texture and the buttons are invisible prims. So I am figuring animation goes into the "prim button" and I need a touch script to activate the animation.

I am not a scripter but Guys I am trying...lol. This is what i have so far. The syntax is off, i am getting errors, and I am not even sure if this is the right direction.

Plz advise:
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default
{
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llStopAnimation("sit";
llStartAnimation("MaleKneel"

}
}

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Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Looks like areasonable approach.

You are missing a semicolon:

llStartAnimation("MaleKneel";

You might also want to look into:

llRequestPermissions(g_Agent, PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION );

Thank you RJ,

ok, so after hunting in the wiki i found a script that made use of the "perm" statement and adding it it now looks like this:

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default
{
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
if (llGetAttached ())
{
if(llGetOwner() == llDetectedKey(0))
{
llRequestPermissions (llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
}
}
}
run_time_permissions(integer perm)
{
if (PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION & perm)
{
llStopAnimation("sit";
llStartAnimation("MaleKneel";




}
}
}

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Ok, and this works great! Prim attached to hud when touched triggers the avi to sit.

However, until prim is removed avi continues to sit and i cant get him up again (without dettaching prim from hud).

So, I am assuming there needs to be a new state? one that tells the avi what to do when action is cancelled? and also a way to tell it the action was cancelled in first place?


Again thanks for any advise... I am learning

Yeah it seems SL really needs the agent to always be running some animation. Stopping an animation, without giving it a new one, seems to just keep playing the old one (though maybe this is affected by priorities - I'm not sure there).

Anyway, a couple things to try when you stop the old animation:

1) Start the animation "stand" if you want them to just stand there.
2) I've heard giving the agent a little "push" can get SL to reassign them some animation (like walk or stand) but I haven't tried that.

You were half way there, just add another state that you switch to for when it is on:

default
{
	state_entry() {
		llRequestPermissions (llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
	}
	
	run_time_permissions(integer perm) {
		if (PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION & perm) {
			llStopAnimation("MaleKneel");
		}
	}
	
	touch_start(integer total_number) {
		if (llGetAttached ()) {
			if(llGetOwner() == llDetectedKey(0)) {
				state sitting;	
			}
		}
	}
	

}

state sitting {
	state_entry() {
		llRequestPermissions (llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
	}
	
	run_time_permissions(integer perm) {
		if (PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION & perm) {
			llStopAnimation("sit");
			llStartAnimation("MaleKneel");
		}
	}	
	
	touch_start(integer total_number) {
		if (llGetAttached ()) {
			if(llGetOwner() == llDetectedKey(0)) {
				state default;	
			}
		}
	}	
}