Avatar physics

Complete new here, so pardon if this is a stupid question. I am trying to move an attached object relative to the phycical movement of the avatar. Is there a way to get the direction and velocity of the avatar from the object script? An example is say the avatar is wearing a big sombrero and then jumps straight up. I want to apply a relative downward force to the hat so it reacts to the avatars movement.

Well, you can get the movement of the avatar with llGetVel(), but it would have to be done in a timer, or some other continuous event to for you to detect when it was sufficient to alter the hat.

Might even use the moving* events, but they might be a little dicey at times.

So llGetVel() will get the movement of the avatar and not the movement of the current object? Interesting, I guess I am a little confused with the scope of these functions.

Yes, because attachments do not move relative to the avatar from the server's point-of-view. They only exist in a psuedospace called "attachment space", which is fixed relative to the avatar. Most function calls which return info for an object also return the same info for an avatar when attached. llGetPos(), llGetRot(), etc.

Great! Thanks for clearing that up for me.