Script to invoke touch on an object we are wearing

[Cesar Lighthouse]

I have been looking to find a way to make a hud that somehow triggers that "touch" event in an object I am wearing, as if i had gone with the mouse and touch it.

 

I wonder if anyone has an idea how to do this?

 

Thanks in Advance,

Cesar

[Rolig Loon]

I'm really not sure what you are asking for. Should I assume that you are wearing a scripted attachment that does something when you click on it? Did you write the script that's in the attachment, or do you at least have permission to edit it? Are you asking about how to make a HUD that you will wear, or is it a HUD that someone else will wear?  It's hard to know how to advise you without having a better idea of what you are trying to do.

[Coffee Pancake]

A script can't simulate an avatar.

[Quistess Alpha]

Hypothetically a viewer could support being told to touch a specific attachment via a script API, but I don't think any viewers do.

(not even Cool VL viewer has that functionality. https://sldev.free.fr/CoolVLViewerLuaManual.pdf )

Edited March 11, 2023 by Quistess Alpha

[Rolig Loon]

I am going to take a wild guess that the OP is using RLV attachments and wants to have a HUD (for himself or maybe someone else) that will allow the user to remove the attachments selectively without actually touching them.  To do that, he'd need to have permission to modify the RLV scripts so that they respond to chat instead of touch, and he'd have to script the HUD to send appropriate messages to those scripts (or, indirectly, to the wearer).  That's doable and not terribly hard, but it does assume that he has the right perms to mess with the scripts.

[Coffee Pancake]

2 hours ago, Quistess Alpha said:

Hypothetically a viewer could support being told to touch a specific attachment via a script API, but I don't think any viewers do.

There is super slim possibility that we might be convinced to add it to RLVa, but it would be for touching your own attachments only and never anyone else's. 

[Quistess Alpha]

9 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

There is super slim possibility that we might be convinced to add it to RLVa, but it would be for touching your own attachments only and never anyone else's. 

It seems more like a scripted agent type of thing rather than a RLV thing, and IMO those need different protocols. As a different example, a 'scripted agent command' to send an IM to someone is pretty universal capability, it would destroy RLV if not over-managed with permissions though.

Edited March 12, 2023 by Quistess Alpha

[Cesar Lighthouse]

Nothing related with RLV. Just imagine this as an example. I am wearing an item that does something when i touch it. The item is small and i have to be still to touch it. I did not create this item, cannot change it or change its script.

So what if i could create a hud with a button that when i touch the button it would trigger the touch event in that item I am wearing?

Its this kind of problem.
I have not found yet any way to solve it.

[Rolig Loon]

And you won't be able to, since you can't modify the object's own script.  It expects you to touch it. It doesn't know about any other possible trigger unless you can change its script.

[Coffee Pancake]

1 hour ago, Quistess Alpha said:

It seems more like a scripted agent type of thing rather than a RLV thing, and IMO those need different protocols. As a different example, a 'scripted agent command' to send an IM to someone is pretty universal capability, it would destroy RLV if not over-managed with permissions though.

Yes .. and there is also a lot of variability to touch .. it's not just a thing that happens to a whole object like a trigger, so anything automated would have to factor in where on which face and for how long and and .. 

I'm loathed to do anything that makes a full fat RLVa viewer into a better bot.

[Quistess Alpha]

2 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

anything automated would have to factor in where on which face and for how long and and

how does right-click from inventory touch an object work though?

[Quistess Alpha]

28 minutes ago, Cesar Lighthouse said:

The item is small and i have to be still to touch it.

right-click from inventory -> touch is great for this.

[Coffee Pancake]

thats a really good point

 

[Rolig Loon]

15 minutes ago, Quistess Alpha said:

right-click from inventory -> touch is great for this.

I use that function so rarely that I forget that it's a thing.  That's a good idea.

[Coffee Pancake]

Could then also be limited to the contents of the #RLV folder

[Henri Beauchamp]

16 hours ago, Quistess Alpha said:

Hypothetically a viewer could support being told to touch a specific attachment via a script API, but I don't think any viewers do.

(not even Cool VL viewer has that functionality. https://sldev.free.fr/CoolVLViewerLuaManual.pdf )

I actually considered implementing a Lua function for it... It was a (long) while ago, and I do not remember all the gory details which made me push the idea farther down my ”ToDo” list, but chances are they are related with how touch-events are dealt with, between viewer and server (asynchronous tasks are involved, with network messaging, which, while not impossible to deal with, do complicate things).

Edited March 12, 2023 by Henri Beauchamp

[primerib1]

12 hours ago, Rolig Loon said:

I use that function so rarely that I forget that it's a thing.  That's a good idea.

I used that a lot because some AO keeps moving my avi around so rapidly it's really annoying to snipe a moving pixel 😂