Linking opening/closing door to prim

[GloriaGlitter]

I have made a pirates treasure chest.  I have the base and the lid as two separate prims.  The lid opens and closes nicely.  Ideally I'd like to link the lid to the base so that if I move the chest, both parts move together and secondly so that you can click anywhere on the chest for the lid to open rather than just clicking on the lid.  When I tried linking the prims the whole chest turned over when I clicked it.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

You will have to use a script in the root prim to first detect which child has been touched, and secondly, when opening or closing the lid, to use local position and rotation of the child prim, not the linkset.

Look at Prim_pos_local and Prim_rot_local in the list of items to be detected by llGetLinkPrimitiveParams, and also look at the llDetectedLinkNumber for working out what has been touched and where it is, then llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast used with the link number and local positions and rotations will do what you want.

 

[Mollymews]

a door swing script in the linked lid prim will do it. Where the lid is not the root prim

the Innula Zenokova / Void Singer script in the this thread on the first page is a good place to start.  Then can also look at the other door scripts from Rolig, etc for slow stepping the rate at which the lid opens