Linkable Multiprim Sliding Door

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

This simple script will operate a multiprim sliding door that you have linked to a larger structure. Each prim in the door must be named "DOOR", and none of the door prims may be the root prim of the linkset. Also, all prims in the door must have the same orientation.  As written, the script assumes that door prims all have their local Z axes horizontal and that the door is supposed to slide on its Y axis.   You could easily change that orientation by changing the order of X,Y,Z parameters in the vector <0.0, gDistance*gON, 0.0>.

The door will only open if you click on one of the door prims.

 

//Linkable Multiprim Sliding Door -- Rolig Loon -- March 2011

// All prims in the door must be named "DOOR", and none can be the root prim of the linkset

integer gON = 1; // Change to -1 to reverse the direction of opening
float gDistance; // Adjust to set the distance the door should move long its local Y axis

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        if (llGetLinkName(llDetectedLinkNumber(0)) == "DOOR")
        {
            integer i;
            for (i=2;i<=llGetNumberOfPrims();++i)
            {
                if (llGetLinkName(i) == "DOOR")
                {
                    list temp = llGetLinkPrimitiveParams(i,[PRIM_POSITION,PRIM_ROT_LOCAL]);
                    rotation local_rot = (rotation)llList2String(temp,1);
                    vector local_pos = ((vector)llList2String(temp,0)- llGetPos())/llGetRot();
                    llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(i,[PRIM_POSITION,local_pos + (<0.0,gDistance *gON,0.0>*local_rot),PRIM_ROTATION,local_rot/llGetRot()]);
                }
            }
            gON = (-1)*gON;
        }
    }
}

ETA:  BTW, this script should not be placed in the door itself, but in the frame (or whatever the door is linked to).

 

[Ceera Murakami 231]

Ohhh, that looks useful!

Of course, you could change "DOOR" in both the script and in the prim names to allow more than one of these in a linkset. As presented in your post, if I did a case-sensitive search and replace and changed "DOOR" with "Bedroom door" for one script, and with "Bathroom door" for another, the two doors should both work and co-exist happily in the same linkset. I have used that trick before with linkable doors using my own scripts.

As an added elegant touch, you might try using llSetObjectDesc( "open" ); to set the description of the door prim to open, or llSetObjectDesc( "closed" ); to set it to closed, and then use llGetObjectDesc(); to determine the current open or closed state of the door. That trick makes the state persist even if the scripts are reset or the linkset is picked up into inventory while the door happens to be open, and then rezzed back in-world. Without that trick, taking the item and re-rezzing it, or resetting the scripts, can make the script think it is starting with the door closed, when in fact it is open, and can make the door move the wrong way, going out of position and into the wall when you try to close it, instead of closing.

I'm popping in-world now to test a variation of your script that used that modification, and will post it here when I have one that works.

[OlWolf 0]

I'm brand new at this, and don't know what I'm doing wrong. I recreated the door to my shed into 3-linked parts, then C&Ped this script from "default" to the bottom in it's entirety as a new script in the wall next to the "DOOR".

When I got to "Save" - I did that, and then linked the parts together starting with the roof, and ending with the floor, and the door was somewhere in between - so I'd remember not to do it last.

Then I tested the door by 'touching' the wall with the included script.... didn't work.

Where'd I mess up?

[PeterCanessa Oh 422]

For a start you'll have missed the global variables above 'default' - copy the whole script as Rolig has it.  Secondly you need to change gDistance to how far you want the prims to move.  ... There may be more, but that should get things moving

[Void Singer 192]

somehow missed this before... but there is a way to remove the caveat about needing all the pieces to have the same orientation... simply calculate from an arbitrary center how far it has to move, rotate it to be correct for the frame, then add that offset to the pieces.... since it's just and offset, the rotation of the part is irrelevant.

[Pazzo Pestana 0]

I've been trying to use this script to allow a single prim door, linked to a house, to slide along the Y axis and haven't succeeded.  As a test, I've linked the door to a single (root) prim and placed the script in that prim.  I've reset the script.  When I touch the door, nothing happens.  I've copied the entire script, including the variables.

... any ideas what I'm not doing correctly?

thanks, again, to Rolig for her reference.

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

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Pazzo Pestana wrote:

[ ...] As a test, I've linked the door to a single (root) prim and placed the script in that prim.  I've reset the script.  When I touch the door, nothing happens.  I've copied the entire script, including the variables.

... any ideas what I'm not doing correctly?

[ ... ]

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See my note in the OP >>> "BTW, this script should not be placed in the door itself, but in the frame (or whatever the door is linked to)."  Also, be sure that the door is named "DOOR".

[Jo Yardley 46]

Thanks for the script, it seems to do what I want it to do except that once the door slides open, or in this case after the window slides up, I can't get the window to slide down again.

Everytime I click it, it just repeats its 'go up' move.

[Jo Yardley 46]

Here is the script I've used;

 

// All prims in the door must be named "Mesh sash window glass", and none can be the root prim of the linksetinteger gON = 1; // Change to -1 to reverse the direction of openingfloat gDistance; // Adjust to set the the door should move long its local Y axisdefault{touch_start(integer total_number){if (llGetLinkName(llDetectedLinkNumber(0)) == "Mesh sash window glass"){integer i;for (i=2;i<=llGetNumberOfPrims();++i){if (llGetLinkName(i) == "Mesh sash window glass"){list temp = llGetLinkPrimitiveParams(i,[PRIM_POSITION,PRIM_ROT_LOCAL]);rotation local_rot = (rotation)llList2String(temp,1);vector local_pos = ((vector)llList2String(temp,0)- llGetPos())/llGetRot();llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(i,[PRIM_POSITION,local_pos + (<0.0,gDistance *gON,0.5>*local_rot),PRIM_ROTATION,local_rot/llGetRot()]);}}gON = (1)*gON;}}}

 

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

That's because you're not reversing direction, Jo.   To go back down again, gON has to become -gON.  You omitted the minus sign, so nothing changes.

gON = (-1)*gON;

or, more simply

gON = -gON;

[Jo Yardley 46]

I've added the minus sign to the last bit but now the window only goes up:)

This may be a good moment to confess I am an absolute noob when it comes to scripting

 

// All prims in the door must be named "Mesh sash window glass", and none can be the root prim of the linksetinteger gON = 1; // Change to -1 to reverse the direction of openingfloat gDistance; // Adjust to set the the door should move long its local Y axisdefault{touch_start(integer total_number){if (llGetLinkName(llDetectedLinkNumber(0)) == "Mesh sash window glass"){integer i;for (i=2;i<=llGetNumberOfPrims();++i){if (llGetLinkName(i) == "Mesh sash window glass"){list temp = llGetLinkPrimitiveParams(i,[PRIM_POSITION,PRIM_ROT_LOCAL]);rotation local_rot = (rotation)llList2String(temp,1);vector local_pos = ((vector)llList2String(temp,0)- llGetPos())/llGetRot();llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(i,[PRIM_POSITION,local_pos + (<0.0,gDistance *gON,0.5>*local_rot),PRIM_ROTATION,local_rot/llGetRot()]);}}gON = (-1)*gON;}}}

 

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

Oh, I see what you did, Jo.  Two mistakes:

1. You didn't specify any distance for the window to move.  That's the variable named gDistance, defined at the top of the script, where the note says "Adjust to set the distance the door should move along its Y axis."  So, specify a distance.  Maybe 0.5?  Give it a try.

2. Notice that the note does say that the door (window) will move along its Y axis.  You have not only told it to ignore the Y axis by telling it that gDistance = 0, you have also told it that you want to move 0.5 m on the Z axis every time you click.  Since you do want to move on the Z axis, you need to change the code to tell it that's what your toggle switch should act on.  Your line should say

llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(i,[PRIM_POSITION,local_pos + (<0.0,0.0,gDistance*gON>*local_rot),PRIM_ROTATION,local_rot/llGetRot()]);

 

[Jo Yardley 46]

I see, well I did get it to move up a certain amount so I thought that was ok, I did it without having to rotate it.

So I did specify the distance, but probably in the wrong spot or something.

But it is all abracadabra to me

I'm such a noob!

I replaced that line with the one you gave but the window now only goes backwards or forwards but still does not return to its original position.

 

// All prims in the door must be named "Mesh sash window glass", and none can be the root prim of the linksetinteger gON = 1; // Change to -1 to reverse the direction of openingfloat gDistance; // Adjust to set the the door should move long its local Y axisdefault{touch_start(integer total_number){if (llGetLinkName(llDetectedLinkNumber(0)) == "Mesh sash window glass"){integer i;for (i=2;i<=llGetNumberOfPrims();++i){if (llGetLinkName(i) == "Mesh sash window glass"){list temp = llGetLinkPrimitiveParams(i,[PRIM_POSITION,PRIM_ROT_LOCAL]);rotation local_rot = (rotation)llList2String(temp,1);vector local_pos = ((vector)llList2String(temp,0)- llGetPos())/llGetRot();llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(i,[PRIM_POSITION,local_pos + (<0.5,0.0,gDistance*gON>*local_rot),PRIM_ROTATION,local_rot/llGetRot()]);}}gON = (-1)*gON;}}}

 

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

Jo, copy that line I just gave you exactly.  What you have done now is to tell it to move 0.5m on the X axis every time you click, and you still haven't specified any value for gDistance at the top of the script, so it's ignoring the gON toggle switch completely.  If you want it to move 0.5 m up and down on its Z axis, you have to tell it that .....

float gDistance = 0.5;

so that the script knows what value of gDistance to multiply gON by each time it gets to the line I just gave you.

[Jo Yardley 46]

Bingo!

I did try and set the distance at the top but it kept giving me an error so I assumed I had to put it somewhere else.

But now it works, thanks for the patience!

 

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

Yay!

[Lea Vendetta 0]

I started working with this script today for a buld I am doing.  I have been playing with it for awhile with no luck, what I am trying to do is make the door automatically close on their own several second after they are first clicked.  I will admit I am absolutly terrible at scripting and normally just throw mulptiple scripts together to get what I need, unfortunatly it is not working this time..  Any help would be appreciated.

[Rolig Loon 13,731]

To do that, you'll have to trigger the door to close in a timer event. You'll start the timer event when the door is opened, give it 5 seconds, and then close, using the same code that is now in the touch_start event for closing the door.  The only trick at all is that you'll have to keep track of what the current state of the gON toggle is, setting it deliberately to OFF as the timer event closes the door again.  Other than that, you just need to copy the existing code from one event into the other.

Oh, and you'll probably want to include a failsafe in the touch_start event to shut the timer event off if you decide to shut the door manually by clicking it before the timer triggers.