Limit the range of the ability to sit on an object

[Tattooshop]

Hello!

How can I limit the range of AVsitter? I need to make it so that you can sit on the object only if the avatar is within a certain range. If outside, get a message like "Come closer."

[Rolig Loon]

I can't think of an easy way to do it.  If your script was in an Experience, I imagine that it might be possible to put a SLPPF statement in state_entry of the AvSit [A] script to allow SCRIPTED_SIT_ONLY and then add a touch_start event whose only purpose is to measure llVecDist( llGetPos(),llDetectedPos(0) ) and then use llSitOnLink to force seat the avatar if the distance is small enough.  I'm not sure that it would work, or that it wouldn't mess up something else.

[Quistess Alpha]

Well, if RLV was involved it would probably be easy to have an llOwnerSay(@sittp:5=n); in there somewhere.

[bobsknief Orsini]

In short you cant.
Possible in theory you however need to work around the fact that as soon as someone sits on a object they are right on top of it.

[Mollymews]

for non-Experience and non-RLV it gets pretty messy but is doable

the main issue is what to do when a person beyond the allowable range (typically not detected in range of a sensor) sits on the chair

a way is to move such an person as a link away from the chair and then unsit them (tell this person to move closer after unsitting them)

basic example of the distant unsit:

integer n = llGetNumberOfPrims();
key k = llGetKey(n);
if (llGetAgentSize(k)) // is an agent
{
   llSetLinkPrimitiveParams(n, [PRIM_POSITION, some_distant_vector>]);
   llUnSit(k);
}   

 

Edited March 19, 2021 by Mollymews
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[Love Zhaoying]

Ya canna stop the Lookey-Loo far sitter users! 

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

You can, but the question is, is it worth the effort?

You could for example enclose the object in question in a larger transparent prim that didn't allow sitting, which changed size to shrink to less than the object in question when an avatar or more were detected within the required range: once there was nobody sitting on the object or in the allowed range the shielder prim expands in size again. As it's transparent most prim-sitters won't see it and their long-range clicks on the visible object will give the famous "no room to sit here" response. But it wouldn't be foolproof, if somebody were to be stood inside the range a prim-sitter would then be able to click in and join them.

Molly's approach is probably the most sensible, the perfect solution would be to unsit them at exactly the point from which they'd started their long-range sit.

[Lucia Nightfire]

Sometimes I wish they had implemented llSetLinkSitDistance() instead of llSitOnLink() ...

[animats]

There's the privacy checkbox, "Avatars on other parcels can see and chat with avatars on this parcel". If that's on, some additional restrictions could apply:

• Can't cam into the parcel from outside.
• Can't sit on anything to which you don't have an unobstructed line of sight from avatar to seat.

Then if you closed and locked your doors, no one could get in. This would reduce the need for ban lines.