Advice on Simple Controller Design

[GManB]

I have an art installation with nine rotating objects. Six of which are very large, 30+m on one axis, and link-sets of 12 links. All are transparent and phantom. To work on this, sometimes just finding the right angle to click on an interior object it difficult. I force my cam in towards the interior objects to try to click but cam can get caught up in the motion and the effort is considerable.

At first the rotating objects had a start/stop toggle in touch_start. I rewrote the scripts to listen to channel 500 on local chat and parse a command. This works fine except that because of the size I have to fly my av to within 20m of the root prim of the link set. And then only those within 20m get the command.

I have thought of two designs involving an object that relays the incoming command from local chat and calls llRegionSay. Design one simply uses an object close to my av but this requires me to keep my av w/in 20m of the relay object. The second just attaches the relay, probably small and transparent so it stays with my av. Also, this installation is in Burn2 and my camp is at a region edge so either method will fail if my av wanders into the neighboring region.

Seems like this is a common problem in SL. I would love to hear how others have solved it or any general comments or suggestions.

 

Thanks,

G

[Rolig Loon]

I think I'm missing something.  Why not just send your command from a toggle button on a HUD, using llRegionSay or llRegionSayTo?

[GManB]

1 minute ago, Rolig Loon said:

I think I'm missing something.  Why not just send your command from a toggle button on a HUD, using llRegionSay or llRegionSayTo?

haha, it is I who missed something!!

 

Thanks Rolig. Great idea!

 

G