How to script an hour hand rotation?

[Evangeline Arcadia]

Hi, I've got rotation scripts but they all seem to rotate about the middle of any object I put it into. I want to make an hour hand from a prim, so need to have the point about which it rotates at one end (of course). Can anyone point me in the right direction please to where I can get such a script or how to modify the basic rotation script?

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

See this script about a door. You may be able to adapt it. Notice in the introduction it talks about using path cut to remove one half of the prim. This is the trick to the rotating around the middle problem.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Smooth_Rotating_Door

 

[Evangeline Arcadia]

Thanks very much Ohjiro! I tried cutting etc. on the prim and that worked a treat. Will check out that link too. Thanks. 

[Qie Niangao]

If you want to be a bit more realistic, clock hands (and gauge needles, etc.) don't actually pivot about their end, exactly, but rather around a point slightly away from the end. That is, a bit of the hand is on the opposite side of the center of the dial from the long part. That's easy to get using "slice" instead of cuts, with a start of maybe 0.45 and an end of 1.0, or something like that.

This thread caught my eye because it happens I was just working on a (very strange) clock. In case it's any help, the old telehub builds had a clock with scripts that rotate textures for the hands, but those same time-to-rotation calculations may help with prim hands, too, if necessary. (I ended up doing something completely different, but again, my clock project is very strange.)

[Rolig Loon]

I have been using Ceera Murakami's Westminster Clock script since she first made it available back in 2008, and have modified it several times for different purposes. She wrote it as three linked scripts, but you can easily combine them to control everything from the root prim with SLPPF.  It's still one of the best clock scripts around.