How can I change which side of a sculptie swinging door swings?

[Jennifer Boyle]

I have a sculptie gate that I put a simple swinging door script in.  It works fine except that it rotates around the latch side instead of the hinge side.  I understand just enough abouty scripting to change parameters and make minor modifications in scripts.  I understand how prim swinging doors work---they are sliced prims and swing around the center---but i have no idea what controls which side a scuptie swings around.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Rolig Loon]

There are at least three common ways to make a door swing: (1) create the door with a hinge at its edge, (2) make a prim door and cut it to create a false edge at what used to be its midline or, (3) script the door to calculate where its edge ought to be and then apply an offset to make it swing from there. Regardless of which approach your door creator used, the direction of swing is probably controlled by a mildly obvious parameter among the global variables at the top of the script -- something that looks like a 90 degree rotation.  Maybe with a helpful label like "Swing".  If you're really lucky, all you have to do is reverse the sign on it (from + to - or vice versa).  If you're not lucky, the only way to tell is to see the script.

[steph Arnott]

Create a prim that is a cylinder so it looks like a hinge and link the sculpt to it, which makes the hinge the root. Then put your script into the root prim. The script will then rotate around the roots axis.

[Jennifer Boyle]

Thanks. I appreciate thge help.