A problem when making stilts

Hi all,

I am trying to make a pair of stilts (Attachment). I have already made two long boxes and worn them in the right place. (Feet) Now when I'm walking, the long boxes are in the ground. So I want to know how to make them be out of the ground, so they can be shown. I used llSetPos, but it doesn't work. It just move the stilts up, but it doesn't move the avatar.

Thanks in advance!

Sorry that I probably described it wrong. My stilts are attachments.

The problem you will be having is connected with animations. As the stilts are simply a projection from the feet of your avatar they go where the avi does. If you want the avi to be in the air while wearing the stilts you are going to have to creat a custom animation with the hip raised to the correct height for the stilts and use an animation override to play the anim when walking.

I can see a couple of problems with this. The height will change for each differently sized avi making the size of the stilts wrong for the different sized avis.

One way around this would be to make the stilts moddable so that new users can adjust the height of the stilt to accomodate them.

If you wanted to get clever with it you could get the stilts to measure the avi height on attachment and adjust their own height accordingly.

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llGetAgentSize

hmmm... what's the max edit limit for a pair of boots? skip that...

you're probably not going to want to hear this, but to do it correctly you'll have to turn your stilits into a vehicle of some sort (normal or non-physics) and go from there, unless someone else has a bright idea I don't see any other way...

the reason is because all attachments are phantom, thus they don't repel the ground...

second thought, you COULD do it as a custom animation, which raises you off the ground, but would either require a swapped out AO, or custom version of the same running in your stilts

Thanks, Django and Void. I love your answers, but could you tell me how to make an animation like that? I know little about animations... Thanks again!

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hey, Django, jinx, you owe me a coke

and Chicken, I'd be the worst person to ask, I probably now just a hair more than you about animation... best to ask over in that forum, and tell them what software you're using...

in poser you'd just raise the avatar up in the second frame, and create a walk... details on how to do that... yeah, ask them, not my speciality

Void hit the nail on the head there,

(opens profile and drops in a coke)

It really depends on the software your using. Poser would be the easiest to use as it will allow you to generate walks from the walk designer. It could be done in avimator or qavimator but would take a bit ore time. Of course you could download the basic avatar anims from the SL website and just edit the hip height for each frame in your animation package.

http://secondlife.com/community/avatar.php

Head on over to the animation forum and ask them. There are some knowledgeable people who hang out in there.

As far as I understand animations (and that isn't terribly far, only messed around with poser and one of the free animators) all you should need to do is create a static pose with the avatar's hips offset along the z (vertical) by the right amount (in the second frame, first frame is a reference), don't move or rotate any other joints, just the hip vertically. Then when you upload that to sl you give it the highest priority so that the hip's position is now overriding any other animation running (i.e. walking, standing etc). Best bet would be to confirm this with the animation forum before getting stuck in, I could be way off the mark.

Nand I think this is pretty much true. My worry with this would be that the hip is normally an integral part of a walk anim...(hip sway and such) and if your overriding it with a priority 4 anim you might lose that detail and hence the walk becomes odd. Although I could be wrong on this point.

Also most stilts require a particular method of walking that is quite different to a normal walk so the OP might still want to consider a custom anim.

Which ever way I think we have established the animation forum is the place to go for advice on this one

Thanks to you all! Gonna post a thread on Animation Tips...