Set Group

Just a short question.
Can a script set the group of an object or prim?
Or is this a stupid question?

Regards,
QW

short answer: No.

thanks

What's the long answer?

noooooooooooooooooooo

the long answer is you can link other objects with different groups set and run the group related scripts from there... which is effectively the same as having several seperate objects, with the option of controlling them via link messages instead of says or e-mails

I neared peed myself laughing

Oh, I haven't laughed that hard in a while! What made it funnier was that I thought of the same answer just a split second before I read your post. I'm glad you thought of it first -- I needed the laugh!

Link as in make them different prims of the same object? My understanding was that the group setting is per object, not per prim. Or did you just mean "link" as in have them coordinate and work together?

When building your object, you can set the group of each prim separately. When linked, the object will show the group of the root prim, but each child prim will retain its individual group setting.

Wow. Okay. Thanks Siann. I had no idea. Seems a little scary how inobvious that is, but I guess we have the precedent set with the prim name and description. I wish they'd show the attributes that differ in the editor, or very clearly document them.

So if you have an if(llSameGroup(AvID)) in a prim, will it return true for the same group as the prim, or still the group of the overall object?

it will allow you to do the next event, basicly if you have a prim to a group and you wont only group members to get stuff from that prim it will work, else if they arent they will get a message like this

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
         if(llSameGroup(llDetectedKey(0)) == TRUE)
        {
            llSay(0, "hi");
        }
        else // if they arent in group
       {
            llSay(0,"no touch for you");
        }
    }
}

So you could have several prims in one object, each belonging to a different group, with the above example code, and use it to distribute on the basis of say "team A","Team B","team c" etc.?

basicly yes, but make sure there isnt any scripts in the main prim

Why? Is that becouse of the touch event or just in general?
Another example application that comes to mind (Warning Lag mosnster in the making)
main prim has general a scan and detects all avies present, 2 child prims, each in a seperate group, scan for specific group tags and pass the data back to the root which is compiling the database.

I'm sure it could be refined further, but I do have an application in mind, based on that idea.

what i meant was touch scripts in main prim, if they prims are all linked together and each has a group touch script it will be doing 2 touch events at the same time if you get what i mean, kinda off today srry didnt keep that clear