change boat sitting animation and location to different sub-link position and animation

[Restless Swords]

i have boat with 2 chairs, each with a sit script.  I want to be able to sit in on one, and then click on the other and move over to its locatin and animation without having to unsit my avatar.  i have seen this done in multi-pose sailboats, etc.

- right now, when i sit and click the other chair, the menu shows "stand" and not that other chairs sit.

I first thought the solution is NOT to use sit at all, but if i just position my avatar and animation then it does  not move with the boat, it seems the avatar MUST sit to move with the boat.

 

[Rolig Loon]

You could probably link the chairs to each other (or the boat) and rewrite your scripts to UnSit you from one chair when you click to sit on the other one.  That ought to work, I think. It's worth a try, anyway .  The problem I see is that if you stand for even a second while the boat is in an area where the parcel owner has blocked object entry, the boat will be returned.

[Restless Swords]

nods.  that is why i did not try unsit-sit.

 

There are sailboats that say you can change positions/animations while the boat is moving, and not have a problem.

- darned if i know how/'what they do.

 

[Rolig Loon]

Well, you don't actually have to sit in the other chair.  You just have to look like you're sitting in it.

 

touch_start(integer num){    if ((llGetLinkName(llDetectedLinkNumber(0)) == "OtherChair") && (llDetectedKey(0) == llAvatarOnSitTarget())    {        llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(llGetNumberOfPrims(),[PRIM_POS_LOCAL, <local_pos_of_other_chair> + <offset>]));    }}

That is, if you have just clicked on the link named "Other Chair" and if you are the person sitting, then move to the local position of the other chair plus a little vertical offset so that you're actually above the chair itself.  This works because you (the seated avatar) are always the last link added to the linkset (that is, you are the link numbered llGetNumberOfPrims() ) and this code snippet is just moving you to a new position.  Without UnSitting from the place where you are still actually seated.

You'll have to do a little magic to get the local position of the other chair, and you might need to mess with rotations if the chairs aren't facing exactly the same way, but those are fun little details.

 

[Restless Swords]

Ooooooo, Interesting.

One of the challenges is that there are many objects, each having a different SitPosition and SitRotation and even different Animation. But perhaps I see the light ....

In the sailboats, you touch the boat and then sit (onto a default position/animation or the last used one) and then you get a select target (position+animation) dialog the same as you get on all subsequent touches. So i think that esentually all sits for all prims are actually done from that one root  touch script (and not using SitTargets in the various prims) setting the avi Position/Rotation/Animation.

I can see possibilities here.  THX !!!