A Quick newbie Builder Question :)

I made a bar, and I made stools, how do I get the AV to sit the right way on the chair when it selects the sit option?

At the moment, you select sit and she sits with her body facing thru the back of the chair, not facing the bar. can I change this? and how?

Thankyou very much
Sky
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The default sit behavior for sitting on an unscripted prim is that the person sits with their back in the direction that they were facing when they clicked the prim and said "Sit". So if you wanted to sit at a prim picnic table, facing the table, you'd need to be on the far side of the table from the bench you want to sit on, and then select the bench prim and select Sit.

To get more advanced control, you need to either add a pose ball (a scripted prim containing the desired sit animation) just above the stool seat, or add pose-ball scripting and a sit animation to a prim in the stool (most likely the seat cushion or a prim hidden inside the seat).

Using a seperate pose ball allows far easier adjustment for the wide range of avatar sizes.

Using a pose ball script and animation in the stool itself saves prim count, slightly, if the prim the script is in is an existing prim.

Pose ball scripts are available in the scripting library.

Pre-scripted pose balls for this are sold at Bits and Bobs and other animation sellers. I make and sell some furniture, and I like and have licensed some of the pose balls that Bits and Bobs sells, for use in my couches and chairs.

Whenever you sit on an unscripted object your avatar will basically turn around and plop themselves down. If you are standing behind the stool your avatar ends up facing backwards. An avatar would have to get between the bar and the chair before they try sitting in order to end up facing the bar. You could leave your chairs a little bit of a distance away from the bar to allow this.

Or... you can add a poseball or poseball script that will position the avatar to whatever rotation you desire.

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To skip adding the extra prim for a pose-ball, it's not too complicated to put in a very short sit script on the seat prim, the main content of which is something like

llSitTarget(<0,0,0.1>, <0,0,PI>)
//         (^POSITION) (^ROTATION)

In this example, the avatar would sit .1m above the prim center, and facing 180 degrees (PI radians) from the default direction. This 'Up' is relative to the prim, so if your seat prim is turned on it's side you'll have to use some other rotation such as <0,PI/2,0>. If you don't want to mess with fixing that, it seems this could work:

//Rotational cancel method by Moleculor Satyr
llSitTarget(target * (ZERO_ROTATION / llGetRot()),ZERO_ROTATION / llGetRot());

See more on that at http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=LlSitTarget.

Admittedly there may be advantages to poseballs, including

1. More obvious visual manipulation of your seating position
   
2. easier ability to set up multiple sit positions on a long 'couch'-like seat, with multiple seats on top of a single prim
   

However, as prim-efficiency has become quite a habit of mine, I doubt I'll ever use poseballs on a chair I make unless (1) that chair has more seating positions than prims, or (2) I want a particular sitting pose that can only be bought in poseball form.