A nudge off a poseball ... can't do it

I'm obviously missing something, but I can't seem to grasp the concept of llPushObject. All I want to do is give an av a slight nudge when s/he stands up from sitting on a poseball, so that s/he doesn't end up standing on the thing. I thought I could do it by using llPushObject, but it doesn't seem to do anything, no matter how big an impulse or angular impulse I use. So what am I not understanding here? Does this look right?

llPushObject(av,< 1.0*llGetObjectMass(av),0,0>,< 1.0*llGetObjectMass(av),0,0>,TRUE);

AVs are for a short time non-physical when getting up off an object. Are you perhaps calling that too soon?

As well, if push is turned off on the parcel, the only the landowner can use that function on people.

Ah... I didn't know about that delay. If it's very long, this approach obviously won't work because the awkward "standing-on-the-chair-I-just-sat-on" moment is usually only a couple of seconds long. I'm trying to make that a gentler experience.

Push IS turned off in this sim, though, so that's clearly the real reason my script is failing. I forgot about that. D'uh.

Anyone have a different solution to suggest, now that pushing is out of the question?

llPushObject has been nerfed to the point of uselessness out of fear that it would be abused for griefing, long after much more powerful physical cage attacks had replaced it in the griefer's arsenal.

Solutions:

(1) Have the animation offset from the sit target, and have the sit target offset off the chair.

(2) Have the chair turn phantom for a moment after the avatar stands.

Thanks, Argent. I like it.

If you give the sitter another way to stand up (like by touching the object while sitting) you can use llSetLinkPrimitiveParams() to move the avatar before unseating it. But that's kind of a hack, obviously.

A good hack, but I'm trying to teach newbies without giving them TMI or information that won't work anywhere else.

As a "furniture user", this is the option I have found feels the smoothest, although it seems to be used very rarely.

I always knew that two wrongs really do make a right!

Probably because the animations need to be made that way in the first place, and there are a heck of a lot more people making furniture than there are making animations.

Also animations made this way are useless for AOs.

Of course if you do animations it's quite simple to add a hip offset or even make versions with and without, I'm just saying that the folks who sell copy+transfer animations for builders mostly don't seem to have done it that way for one reason or another.

You can play the hip offset animation concurrently with another animation. I've made a number of hip-offsets I use to get my smaller-than-average avatar to work correctly with frankenken-scaled sit animations.