Physics, pivots and gravity... (Scripting a swaying sign help.)

[Minareth Irata]

Hi all, I'm trying to Script a swaying sign, like you may see in some games. (Mostly in medieval themed games.) But Second Life physics are... Yeah... The first issue I run into is that physical Objects can't interpenetrate, like say you can't make chain links hooked on to each other unless they're really huge...

So what I did was make the post Phantom, and used a small Script to make the sign's Root Prim hold onto a position and limit it to rotate on one axis only.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem that occurs now is that the rotation isn't affected by gravity and the center of mass at all! When hitting the sign it keeps spinning around the pivot point and when it does come to a halt it isn't pulled down... I suppose there is no way to solve this? I know people advise to simulate the effect rather than using actual physics, but it's just that I want to see if I can make it work. I'm curious if it's possible at all with Physics and as little Scripting as possible.

[Rolig Loon]

You might try a minimal script with a collision event that reacts to a collision by applying an opposing damping force with llApplyRotationalImpulse.  I haven't tried that, but that's what you would do in RL if you want to minimize rotational movement.

[Darleen Emerald]

Hi....  interesting problem ...I took a stab at it....here is the script   and ill attach photo of sign object

//Swinging sign by Darleen Emerald 23 Oct 2014
vector start_pos = <215.036,208.059,46.611>;// note: just copy start_pos from edit object window
rotation start_rot;
integer started=FALSE;
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS,FALSE);
        start_rot= llEuler2Rot(<0,90,0> * DEG_TO_RAD);
      
        
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        if(!started)
        {
        
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS,TRUE);
        llMoveToTarget(start_pos,1);
        llSleep(1);
        llStopMoveToTarget();
        
        
        
        
        started=TRUE;
       }
       else
       {
           llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS,FALSE);
           llStopMoveToTarget();
           llSetPos(start_pos);
           llSetRot(start_rot);
           started=FALSE;
           
        }
    
    }
    collision_start(integer num_detected)
    {
        
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS,FALSE);
        
           llSetPos(start_pos);
           llSetRot(start_rot);
           llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS,TRUE);
    }
}