Move a floating box around my head, keep it in front of me

[Torivas Goldshark]

I have this box, with a media texture, and I want it to stay in front of my face.

I have it attached to my skull, but that causes a few annoyances, like it being angled along the Y axis when I zoom in on it. As I understand there is no way to dynamically rotate an attached object relative to the world.

So I think a better way to do this would be to rez it and have it float generally in front of my avatar at head height, and have a certain face of the object always facing me. So only the Z- axis would have to rotate, I think.

I have absolutely no clue how to do this. Would anyone mind helping?

-Torivas

[Dazler]

If the box is there for you and you alone, have you thought of wearing it as a HUD on your screen? That way, you could view it all the time whilst keeping your avatar clear of clutter.

[Torivas Goldshark]

Thats a possibility, but I'd still like to do it this way, at the least to learn how scripts like that work.

[Dora Gustafson]

Use llGetObjectDetails( key id, list params ); to find out where your avatar is and how it is rotated.
Then add the vector, avatar to object and rotate it same amount your avatar is rotated.
Now you know the position of your prim.
Finally make your prim face your avatar using llLookAt or llRotLookAt

Note: You may want to add an offset in order to lift the prim from the avatar center to the head level

[Void Singer]

half of the agents .z value from llGetAgentSize added to the agents position should be midline to the agent eye level

[Rolig Loon]

See the short example at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlMoveToTarget

[Torivas Goldshark]

Thank you all for your help! That all worked perfectly!