Teleport without sitting on anything?

Hi guys,

This may be a silly question, but I have noticed that all the teleport scripts in my inventory require the teleportee (is that the right word?) to 'sit' on something.

Is it possible to teleport without sitting on anything (and not by using workarounds, such as the map or a landmark givers)?

I want to have a tp orb on my wall, which I click it I get a menu of teleport destinations, and once I select one - whoosh, and I am there (within the same sim, mostly short-distance). Does such a possibility exist?

Rock

I can only answer that yes it _is_ possible, since I've seen and used them many times, (stores, sim entry points). You just click on a destination spelled out on a board, or select from a pop-up menu.

Thnks for the response Isabeau, but I think that you will find that those boards have 'Sit' as the default action when left-clicked.

Rock

You'll want to sit but you can hide that by changing the prim so that the default click action is sit. That's a little menu in the bottom of the edit pane in the first tab (General).

You get kind of limited movement possibilities when an avatar is already sitting, so if you want a menu to display after that it would be easier to use warppos for the movement part.

or in other words, no there's no way to teleport someone without sitting. unless you were to push them like weapons do, however you would not have any fine control over their destination.

Ah yes... pinpoint catapult

Most of the in-region teleporters are of the sit type as described above. Folks are correct in saying that you just have to change the default Left-Click action of the object to be "Sit on Object" instead of the default "Touch / grab". That usually implies that the unit's one sit target has already been set, probably by the owner. If you want to set up multiple destinations from one departure point, you would likely set up a panel of these teleporters. If you want one already built, check out Beam-Me-One, although it's easy enough to build your own from freebie scripts readily available.

Unless you change the script to read "teleport" instead of sit.

Scripters have been asking for a llTeleportToDestination function for years but there still isn't one. Short of that, there is no way to have a user select from a menu of destinations and immediately TP upon selection. You have to go thru the additional step of either "sitting" for sit based teleporters or clicking the teleport button on the teleport map for map based teleporters.

The only way around it is to have a panel of single destination teleporters all set to sit on left click as has been described above.

Note that using llSetLinkPrimitiveParams() on an already sitting avatar allows for a nice menu-driven destination choice. You can pop a dialog up as a result of the sit, and move/unsit the avatar as a result of the menu choice. However, it only works at teleport type distances on Havok 4 and may be considered a defect by some.

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1433

Well... you might not be able to teleport ANYONE without sitting, but you CAN teleport yourself.

It needs a two step process. One part is the teleporting device with a popup menu for the different destinations. The other part is a prim that has to be worn as an attachement. This prim will have a script that listens to the teleport prim which tells it where to go. It can then move itself (and the attached avatar) to that destination without the need to sit. Since its a physical movement the distance is limited, but you can of course make the script calculate waypoints to get to the final destination and repeat the movement until you arrive there. Make sure to use a small tau value to get you there as fast as possible.

In fact I use this all the time to move my AV to my camera position by clicking on a special button on my hud.

Mandy.

I know this is an older post, but I think this is relevant, I've just built a 3x3 (9 destination) teleporter on one prim - it uses llDetectedTouchUV to work out which part of the prim was clicked, then another object is rezzed which the av touches to tp. IM me inworld if you want to see it in action.

nice, now if you add set prim params you could probably do it in one... for how long is anyones guess though.

ps nice to have an update since I don't belive that function was available at the time of the last post.