Compass Needle animation

[Lucka Bamaisin]

Hey all,

I am making a Compass HUD to set wind direction and speed on a boat. I have placed 8 prims (N, NE, E, etc) on a compass background and clicking those (so the sent command is in any of the 8 prims) sends the approriate wind heading to the boat, so far so good.

Now, I'd like a compass needle to show which heading has been selected. Created a texture with only the needle showing and want the needle texture to rotate according to the heading selected (counting from N, for example).

1. Does anyone know how to make a prim (not the clicked one!) rotate, after another has been touched?

2. Do I need to script this in the main prim (Compass face), the setting prim(s) (N, NE, E, etc)? Scripting it in the needle prim doesn't make any sense as that is not touched, imho....

3. How do I make sure that the needle always points in the right heading after consequetive heading changes? Reset to N every time it sets to the new heading?

New to scripting, already proud I got the 1st bit working, lol, so any advice help is very welcome!

Lucka

PS: I've added a pic to show how this looks.. the red areas are the "hotspots" to click to run the actual "change heading" script.

PS2: If someone should think: Totally wrong way to go about it, please let me know! Willing to learn :-)

[Xiija]

1. use SLPPF

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast#llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast

use something like this to rotate texture ..

        integer needle = 3; // or what ever link number your needle is
        string texture = "e29fd1b5-d311-fcd3-f560-58beff17e84f"; // your needle texture's uuid
        float amt = -45.0; // make a list for each direction ... -45.0 is ne
        
        llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(needle,
       [ PRIM_TEXTURE, ALL_SIDES,  texture, <1,1,0>, <1,1,0>, amt * DEG_TO_RAD]);

 

or PRIM_ROT_LOCAL to rotate the prim itself?

[Qie Niangao]

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Lucka Bamaisin wrote:

 the red areas are the "hotspots" to click to run the actual "change heading" script.

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That's fine for getting this up and running, but it's not absolutely necessary that there be discrete hotspots. (Or, even if you want those hotspots, they don't have to be in the object as distinct faces, but can rather be only script-internal constructs.) llDetectedTouchST or similar may be useful here.

[Lucka Bamaisin]

Hi Xiija,

while writing you a reply that I couldn't get it to work, I realized what I had done wrong, :-) Works like a charm!

Thank you!

regards, Lucka

[Lucka Bamaisin]

Hi Qie,

I'm afraid that is above my current level of expertise.... But I will look into it further.

Thank you for your reply :-)

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Lucka Bamaisin wrote:

Hi Qie,

I'm afraid that is above my current level of expertise.... But I will look into it further.

Thank you for your reply :-)

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Okay then, let's raise your current level of expertise...

 

If my level of expertise is high enough, you can drop that into a prim and it'll detect a touch on any face and return a cardinal direction string appropriate for the octant of the face that you touch. Drop your compass rose on the face and you should have what you want.

You can change the code to accept touches only on the desired face by changing "face != TOUCH_INVALID_FACE" to "face == face#".

;-).

[Gator Peterman]

I have been playing with your script and although I consider myself a beginner, I fairly understand the math how it works because of the extensive explanation, thank you for that.

My problem is this. I want to use it to instruct a Bandit boat to change wind direction. If done by hand one simply types in N_S_W_E etc. in chat and the boat responds. But if I wear a prim with your script then the boat does not respond, My gut feeling is that the boat only accepts these commands from the owner of the boat and not from some prim.

I changed the llOwnerSay into llSay on channel 0.

So, is there a way to solve this by somehow making the boat accept it comes from me rather than a prim?

 

Thank you

[Rolig Loon]

You can't change this script to make the boat think that it is listening to you.  You'll have to change the boat's script.  That's the script that's doing the listening. You'll have to teach it to recognize a command from you or something that you own.  Assuming that you can get into that script, you'll want to look for the filter in its listen event that is currently testing

if (id == llGetOwner() )

or something like that.  If you change that to

if ( llGetOwnerKey(id) == llGetOwner() )

it should accept a command that comes either from you or a scripted object that you own.  Of course, if you can't get into the boat's script, you are out of luck.

[Gator Peterman]

Thanks, I was afraid its not possible. I cannot change the boat script, so thats a no go.