Rotating Script Question

[Graine Macbain]

I am building a robot sculpture that will include a rotating flywheel above the sculpture's head. The only problem is, when I link the flywheel to the sculpture/robot, the entire object rotates, whereas I only want the flywheel to rotate above the head, like a moving halo. Any suggestions?

[Innula Zenovka]

If you make any prim other than the flywheel the root prim, then the flywheel should behave as you want. llTargetOmega makes the individual prim rotate unless it's called from the root prim, in which case it turns the whole object.

[Graine Macbain]

Thanks, Innula, that did work, but now the flywheel is rotating at a different angle than it did before I linked it. Back to the drawing board, I guess.

[Innula Zenovka]

Assuming you want the prim to rotate around its own local z axis (that is, around the blue arrow when the ruler is in local mode, rather than world mode, and you're looking at that particular prim  using "edit linked parts" rather than the whole object), try

 

 llTargetOmega(<0.0,0.0,1.0>*llGetLocalRot(),1.0,1.0);

 

[Graine Macbain]

Hey, that worked! Thnak you, Innula!