vehicle scripts in OpenSim kinda suck at i live in science land

lol, what a title! but it seems to be true! o_O

DreamWalker messed around with vehicle scripts last week and the best she did was have me laughing so hard that i thought i was going to pee myself!

oh oh

so tonight i thought that i’d take a look around and see what i could find

SL vehicle scripts pretty much fail in OpenSim. mostly nothing happens, you get on and then nada, zip, silent fail

which is better than some of the stuff i was reading! like regions crashing and cars shooting up so high that you can’t delete them!

i only looked for about 20 minutes and found a boat script that worked very well and a car script that is great (scripts here, thanks Kitto Flora). i could not find any flying scripts which is a big boo, but i’ll look more later . . . i miss my Second Life helicopters and really enjoyed flying them =)

the car script handled just fine for my little segway ripoff, err, inspired GyroRider but has an issue that might be hard to resolve. when the vehicle is disembarked, it settles down to the terrain and not the prim it is on (like a roadway or the hangar tarmac where i make vehicles)

apart from that, i need to figure out how to stand on the thing instead of sitting, but that should be easy =)

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written by Ener Hax

October 11th, 2010 at 12:31 am

posted in OpenSim

tagged with vehicle scripts

Yeah, I have that ZChopper from SL but crash my av everytime I try to use it in OS :D

Oh and I have a flying vehicle but it uses physical movement with llMoveToTarget (push the object to a vector) have not tried with VehicleParams. About your script, paste-bin it so I can remove the sit anim :)

Jor3l

11 Oct 10 at 12:43 am

oh thanks! i will do that =) i’ll let you know manana (lol, i have to figure out what “paste-bin” is!) =D

Ener Hax

11 Oct 10 at 12:58 am

okay, i hope this is it: http://pastebin.com/rsyQzDA4

thank you Jor31! =)

11 Oct 10 at 1:01 am

Newbie comment: ;) possibly a additional standing pose with arms forward would do that job better, but I dunno how to do it, sorry

OSnewbie

11 Oct 10 at 3:27 am

LOL – I want one! Saw several tourists riding them in SF; way cool!

Cristopher Lefavre

11 Oct 10 at 4:19 am

Ener, just a thought about it sinking. It looks like the root prim might be lining up with ground. Is there a chance the gyrorider can be rebuilt with a transparent under-prim that has the scripts? Just an idea.

Shang Cheng

11 Oct 10 at 7:46 am

ho OSnewbie, yes, that would be ideal and the way to make the pose is to use qavimator =) i don’t know how to attach it, but if you have not tried qavimator, it is very easy to use and free!

http://www.qavimator.org/

hey Cristopher! i saw a segway tour also in San Fran, it was pretty cool to see – like ducklings following the tour guide. did you also see those crazy little three wheeled yellow tour motorcycle things?

hello Shang, i will try that! =) the script is in a big transparent block because the vehicle is so small it tips over forward otherwise! =D when you sit on it to ride, it raises up like in the video to look proper on the surface, so the prim does actually slide properly, it just sinks once you get off. it seems to be like the boat script, which “knows the water level (or maybe that just does 20 metres regardless?

11 Oct 10 at 8:11 am

@Ener, another thought would be that you could used changed() to track whether the avatar was sitting or not and then forcibly set the object height after the avatar jumps off. I haven’t looked at the script yet.

11 Oct 10 at 9:07 am

woof, you overestimate my scripting skills! =D i can just barely cut and paste!

that is a great tip, thank you – i will look at that tonight! =)

11 Oct 10 at 9:41 am

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11 Oct 10 at 12:45 pm

sorry the delay ener, here is the script http://pastebin.com/U39nVuTP

About the anim with the arms I made one for my vehicle, will look for it or make a new one and upload it tomorrow :)

11 Oct 10 at 11:30 pm

duh.. missed one letter.. here is http://pastebin.com/E4zbGf3T it also uses some sounds and other stuff.. do you have them in the vehicle? :)

11 Oct 10 at 11:32 pm

no i don’t use any sounds, i have never done any audio in SL or OpenSim – sometimes i listen to an in-world radio, but that is it =)

i tried that script but still sit down, maybe i am doing something wrong? (lol, i am sometimes challenged by all of this) =)

12 Oct 10 at 12:46 am

try this :) http://jor3l.foravatars.com/opensim-vehicle-iar-download/

12 Oct 10 at 12:57 am

yay for Jor31!!! \o/

i am at stoopid work, boooo, but i grabbed your download and can’t wait to try it!

i also was given an IAR for a helicopter by Hiro and can’t wait to try it too

it’s like Christmas! thank you! =)

12 Oct 10 at 8:15 am

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13 Oct 10 at 5:50 am

I tried this script in my stand alone and it don’t work I keep wanting to fly and after i get so far up I get kicked out of the car and i end up way in the sky God only knows where and I have to use a landmark to get back is there a car script that will work on a stand alone sim I have looked and looked and tried so many with no luck any way thx to all for sharing.