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    Why is Flying so difficult in Second Life

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Thank you Clem. I was unaware of those facts.

    As you probably know, seeing the vast diversity of the mainland from the air is the big attraction. It has nothing to do with wanting to violate anyone's privacy. 

    I've written a gadget I called the Magic Carpet that criss-crosses the public roads and waterways of pretty much all the mainland continents. But there's nothing like seeing it from the air!

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    Why is Flying so difficult in Second Life

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Wow, this is probably the most controversial subject I've ever raised. Some useful and some vitriolic responses. I guess I never realised that over-flying someone's property for one or two seconds was considered such a heinous act. I stand corrected and will constrain my travels to more welcoming areas where  15 second warning is considered a reasonable compromise.

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    Why is Flying so difficult in Second Life

    in Mainland

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    I've taken up flying in Second Life and find it a wonderful way of exploring the SL world. It is quite enjoyable when one restrict one's area of interest to Bellisseria and doesn't descend below 100m above ground. At that height one appears to avoid ban lines and since one travels at 15m/sec (or thereabout), one has no problem with surveillance orbs that allow incursions of 15 secs or less.

    Flying across  other mainland continents is quite another matter. It appears that even at 400m above ground, SL's property rights fanatics on as little as 1024 parcels have the ability to send you back to your home parcel if one of your wings as much as touches their sovereign land. Is there no way to avoid this fate? Are there no SL TOS provisions that prevent unreasonable ejections?

     

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    MessageLinked with specific link numbers

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    I have an object comprised of a large number of prims. I thought it would be more efficient to communicate with MessageLinked to each specific prim by using that prim's link number, rather than using LINK_SET and having each prim determine if the message was meant for it by filtering on the data being sent. Alas, that didn't work for me.

    So I created a simple linked object of three boxes, resulting in link numbers 1, 2 and 3. In the root prim (link number 1) I placed a script that send one message to link 2 and a different message to link 3. In each of the other two prims (link # 2 and 3) I created a script that printed the message it received.

    What happened is that the link 2 prim printed the prim 3 message and prim 3 printed the prim 2 message. I verified that each prim had the correct link number. 

    To complicate matters further, when I added a fourth box, the second box got the fourth box's message, the fourth box got the second box's message. The third box got the correct message. I continued to add boxes and they all seem to confuse the link number for their prim with someone elses.

    Any thoughts?

     

    Root script:

    default
    {
        touch_start(integer total_number)
        {
            llMessageLinked(2, 0, "Second guy", "");
            llMessageLinked(3, 0, "Third guy", "");
            llMessageLinked(4, 0, "Fourth guy", "");  
            llMessageLinked(5, 0, "Fifth guy", "");  
        }
    }
    Prim with link # 2:

    default
    {
        link_message(integer source, integer code, string data, key ID)
        {
            llSay(0, " link 2 received: " + data);
        }
    }
     

    The other scripts merely change the llSay message to define the correct prim

     

    Displaying playing cards in SL

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    Thank you so much for the overwhelming responses to my question. For my purposes, I only ever display one side of the cards as they lie on the table, either face up or face down. the sides can be invisible. I'll work with the suggestions made and see where it leads me. I'm a pretty competent scripter, but my Blender skills are minimal, A further complication is that I want the cards to overlap as they are dealt out to save table space. I've accomplished all that by having each card as a separate object and shrinking the card and texture as I deal the overlapping cards, but that comes at a very high prim cost as you can imagine in a multi-player game. 

    Thanks again, everyone. It's a challenging, yet interesting problem to solve!

    ThreecardOverlap.jpg

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    Displaying playing cards in SL

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    I've written a game that involves the display of playing cards on a table. It's working fine except that i use one prim for every card on display. I've come across a number of table card games where the card images appear to be part of a mesh that's linked to the table. Does anyone know how that's done?

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    Keeping an object from being return to inventory from protected land

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    I'm working on a script that moves my avatar around protected mainland waterways. it works fine, except of course if I get off the transport object, SL returns the object to my lost and found folder after a short interval. I expected that to happen, however, I see other objects with no attached avatars doing similar travel without being removed by the simulator.

    Does anyone know how that's done?

    Curly Braces Indentation

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    As I write a script, the ending curly brace normally positions itself correctly, as in:

    if (a == b)
    {
         some code
    }

    at some unpredictable point, however, it stops doing that, leaving the curly brace, as in

    if (a == b)
    {
         some code
         }

    and I have to manually move it back. Is this a bug or am I doing something to cause this behaviour?

    Artifacts in busy SIMs

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    I wish I'd taken Drake1's question to heart earlier.

    The problem was not apparent on Viewer 2. After doing a clean re-install of Firestorm, no more artifacts there either.

    I just couldn't confince myself that this was a software issue, but it was.

    Thank you for the advice and particularly the suggestion to try other viewers.

     

     

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