Question about moving attachments

I am wondering...can a moving prim be attached to a non-moving prim without the non moving prim joining the moving prim in it's movement? ERK, don't know how else to say it. Hope that make sense...

And IF so...how?

New to scripting...but eager to learn.

You mean can a single prim of a multiprim attachment move? Unfortunately, no... only the whole attachment can move.

You can trick some multiple rotating things using moving/rotating textures though.

but....Thanks Psyra!

Can't you do that now in 1.7? There's now llSetPos, llSetRot, llTargetOmega and llSetPrimitiveParams support for attachments. I presume llSetPos will work on child prims as well as the parent prim - haven't tested it though, so I could be wrong.

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=revisions

I have attachments with individual prims rotating. I haven't tested all the functions yet, but as far as I can tell it works pretty much the same way as a non-attached object.

Hmm, I may be mistaken but I think you can. I attached some items that have child-prims moving/animating to me, the hud, ect, and they still moved...

You could animate them like this ...

Or, as Psyra mentioned, if you're just making something(s) rotate, doing an animated texture if you can will be your best bet.

Yup you can move individual child prim within a link set (attachment or not), using llSetPos and llSetLocalRot.

This is from the 1.7 release notes:

Script Changes
-----------------

- Added llSetPayPrice
* Users can now set the default pay price and the quick pay button values via the script llSetPayPrice function.

- Improved llRequestSimulatorData
* Added DATA_SIM_RATING to query the rating (PG or MATURE or UNKNOWN) of a simulator.

- Added llGetInventoryType
* Gives users the ability to get the type of an inventory item.

- Added Full Bright option to llSetPrimitiveParams
* Usage:
llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_FULLBRIGHT, {side}, {enabled});
* Enable full bright for an entire object:
llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_FULLBRIGHT, ALL_SIDES, TRUE]);
* Disable full bright for face 2 of an object:
llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_FULLBRIGHT, 2, FALSE]);



- Added llSetPos, llSetRot, llTargetOmega, llSetPrimParams support for attachments
************* Attachments can now be scripted to rotate and move. **************




- Added llEscapeURL and llUnescapeURL
* These functions can be used to handle URLs. Spaces can be escaped to "%20" for example.
* Usage:
llEscapeURL(string url);
llUnescapeURL(string url);

- llSetPos() can now move objects up to 768 meters high (instead of just 512)

You can now with 1.7.

I made earrings with counter-rotating rings. What I did find though is that the rotation of one affects the rotations of others in a way I don't fully understand yet. THough prims that are linked and not rotating aren't affected.