Rotation of a physical object

[Shanbo Baddingham]

Hey there, I want a command that will rotate a physical object until it's local z axis is pointing straight up.  Anyone know how to do this?

[Shanbo Baddingham]

Hey there, I want a command that will rotate a physical object until it's local z axis is pointing straight up.  Anyone know how to do this?

[Rolig Loon]

 llSetLocalRot( llGetLocalRot() * llRotBetween( <0.0, 0.0,1.0> *llGetLocalRot(), <0.0, 0.0,1.0> ) ); 

 It doesn't make any difference whether the object is physical or not.  If you want to rotate its Z axis to point uip, that's how to do it.

[Shanbo Baddingham]

And if I wanted to point the X axis straight up, would that become

llSetLocalRot( llGetLocalRot() * llRotBetween( <1.0, 0.0,0.0> *llGetLocalRot(), <0.0, 0.0,1.0> ) );

And if I wanted to point the Z axis to the left, would that be

llSetLocalRot( llGetLocalRot() * llRotBetween( <0.0, 0.0,1.0> *llGetLocalRot(), <1.0, 0.0,0.0> ) );

Just trying to get the format down

[Rolig Loon]

That looks right to me.  The best way to be sure is to go in world and test, which I can't do at the moment. 

[Shanbo Baddingham]

Hmm, I just did.  It didn't do anything

I should point out that this is for a root prim, not a child prim.

[Innula Zenovka]

I think the problem is that llSetRot and similar don't work on physical prims.

In this instance, the simplest method is to use llLookAt(), since that works with both physical and non-physical objects and points the Z axis (rather than the X axis, which is what most functions use) at the specified position.

So try something like:

integer toggle;default{	state_entry()	{		llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!");	}	touch_start(integer total_number)	{		toggle=!toggle;		if(toggle){			llLookAt(llGetPos()+<0.0,0.0,1.0>,1.0,0.1); // look at a point 1 metre above me		}		else{			llStopLookAt(); // turn the lookat off		}	}}