animating vehicle scripts

[ChaosRaine]

I am writing a vehicle script and I can get most of it to work. It takes control steers nicely and all that good stuff. I can get it to play an animation when I press forward, back, left and right, however after moving I can't get it to play an idle animation when no control buttons are being pressed. Does anybody know his to add that? I can post my script here tomorrow if you need to see it.

[Dora Gustafson]

I often use the control on 'Page Down' Key to set the motors to zero

Something like this:

if(level & CONTROL_DOWN){    gLinearMotor = ZERO_VECTOR;    llSetVehicleVectorParam(VEHICLE_LINEAR_MOTOR_DIRECTION, gLinearMotor);    angular_motor = ZERO_VECTOR;    llSetVehicleVectorParam(VEHICLE_ANGULAR_MOTOR_DIRECTION, angular_motor);}

I hope this will help you

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[ChaosRaine]

I'm not having trouble with the vehicles motion. I want animations to play I'm moving and a different when I'm stopped. I tried to put in timers that checked for control buttons being pressed but all I could get was a check if the button was pressed we've the last timed event, so if I hold the button down threw two timed events it would pay the idle animation again instead of the survival one.

[Dora Gustafson]

I misunderstood.

Maybe llGetVel() can help you, it provides the velocity of your vehicle

The magnitude of the velocity equals the speed of your vehicle, so

if ( llVecMag( llGetVel()) > 0.0 ) the vehicle is moving
else the vehicle is not moving

Hope that helps

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[Innula Zenovka]

If you mean you want to detect, in the control event, if nothing is being pressed, try something like this, based on the Wiki example,

default{    state_entry()    {        llRequestPermissions(llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TAKE_CONTROLS);    }    run_time_permissions(integer perm)    {        if(PERMISSION_TAKE_CONTROLS & perm)        {            llTakeControls(                            CONTROL_FWD |                            CONTROL_BACK |                            CONTROL_LEFT |                            CONTROL_RIGHT |                            CONTROL_ROT_LEFT |                            CONTROL_ROT_RIGHT |                            CONTROL_UP |                            CONTROL_DOWN |                             CONTROL_LBUTTON |                            CONTROL_ML_LBUTTON |                            0, TRUE, FALSE);                            // | 0 is for edit convenience,                            // it does not change the mask.        }    }            control(key id, integer level, integer edge)    {        integer start = level & edge;        integer end = ~level & edge;        integer held = level & ~edge;        integer untouched = ~(level | edge);        //llOwnerSay(llList2CSV([level, edge, start, end, held, untouched]));                integer playAnim = FALSE;        llSetTimerEvent(0.0);                if(end){          playAnim=TRUE;                   }                        if(untouched){                  if(playAnim){             playAnim=FALSE;             llSetTimerEvent(0.5);            return;            }        }    }        timer(){      llSetTimerEvent(0.0);      llOwnerSay("should play idle animation here");       }}