Create A Flying Pet: Transcript 1

 

You: Well, thanks for coming everyone to my Create a Pet Dragon project :)

onionpencil Musashi is way too excited about the class

You: this coure will run over 4 or five weeks

You: problaby every sunday afternoon like this

You: I expect you to have some knowledge of scripting

You: this course is more about design than how to use

You: individual functions

You: although I will be loking at some specific functions, I expe t you to be able to look up those you dont know

You: any questions, if not, I shall let my cat out and begin

Xander Moe: nope go on

You: Ok, first lets look at the sort of thing im taling about

Tink: I'm back, did you miss me?

Tink: I'm bored

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Tink: Silly Avatar

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Azazel Czukor: aaaww

Xander Moe: sweet

You: Tink is my work in progress, she has several scripts, well about ten I think

Tink: ??

You: she moves in a smooth motion, turning and moving "forward" all the time

Tink: My name is Tinker

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

You: if she strays to far from me, she comes back until she reaches a predetermined distance

You: Ill demonstrate that

Tink: My name is Tinker

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

You: takes her a few seconds to spot Ive gone, and them she comes to me

Tink: Look at me

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

You: at the same time, she occationally creates a particle effect and says random phrases

Tink: lol

Tink: Do you believe in faries?

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

You: she also obeys some commands

You: Tink here

Tink: All right

Xander Moe: that is so cool

You: now she will stay close to me

You: Tink sit

Tink: Touched.

Tink: Hey! stop that

You: hmm sometimes she ignores me

You: Tink play

Tink: OK Boss

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

You: Tink sit

You: lol, she doesnt want to sit

Elle Pollack: Hehe

Tink: Look at me

Tink: Got any spare teeth?

You: Ok, so that is what we are going to be aiming for. everyone happy with that?

Azazel Czukor: very

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

onionpencil Musashi: 8D

Carrina Hathor: yes :)

TxKatie Curie: :)

Dr Tapioca: let's get started!

Xander Moe: yea looks awesome

Basic Chair: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down

You: just one more thing. You have some local sport festival on vover in the USA? When does it start?

pet session 1 (244, 82):

Script trying to trigger animations but PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION permission not set

onionpencil Musashi: 3 sl time maybe? not sure

Ariel Monde: Superbowl ?

Azazel Czukor: another hour or so?

You: OK, so here are some basic requireemnts

You: we want our pet to fly around randomly, in a realist way

Dr Tapioca: 3:30 SL time, I believe

You: we want it to occationally do some random actions that we will make up nearer the time

You: we want it to stay near us, or what eve object we want

You: for the moment, I'l assume that we are going for something that stays near the owner

You: and we want something expandable, so we acan add other stuff

Basic Chair: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down

You have exchanged calling cards with TxKatie Curie.

TxKatie Curie is online

pet session 1 (244, 82):

Script trying to trigger animations but PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION permission not set

You: Ill give this a few seconds to rez

You: anyone still waiting for the texture?

Nessinger Loveless: good to go

Ariel Monde: its fine

onionpencil Musashi: all set

Xander Moe: i am waiting

Carrina Hathor: tis fine

IM: Rhiannon Chatnoir: I am sorry for being late, I hope it is not too late to start if so, I will watch

Xander Moe: ok ready

You: Our pet is going to have three scripts each with a different function

You: this is how LSL is desinged to work

You: separate scripts with specific functions

Hokuto Gorham: different scripts run in parallel?

You: so we are going to have a Brain script which is going to decide what to do

You: Hokuto, es

You: yes

Hokuto Gorham: thanks

You: just checking back making sure I havnt missed any questions

You have exchanged calling cards with Serious Grommet.

Serious Grommet is online

You: OK, so when the Brain script decides to move somewhere, it tells the movement script

You: the movement script does nothing but know how to move from one place to another

IM: Rhiannon Chatnoir: did we need to bring anything or are you supplying the models

You: when it gets there, it will tell the brain script that

You: its reached the location

You: the brain can then decide todo something else

You: like perform a random action

Claire Engel is offline

Oliva Delvecchio is offline

You: If our random action needs a move, it too can call the movement script to move our pet around

You: so three scrippts working together, later on we will add more to the design

You: One of the first things we will go over in detail is how these scripts are going to talk to each other

pet session 1 (244, 82):

Script trying to trigger animations but PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION permission not set

You: :0 did I mention the homework?

Gino Medici: what does the action script do?

Dr Tapioca: HW?!?

pet session 1 (244, 82):

Script trying to trigger animations but PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION permission not set

Xander Moe: no you didnt

You: inour model the action script is going to pick a random action, perform it and then pass control back to the brain script

Gino Medici: ok, thanx

You: everyone happy with this screen?

Hokuto Gorham: yes

Xander Moe: ok

Carrina Hathor: yes

rocky Erato: yes

neand Fleming: yes

Xander Moe: yea

onionpencil Musashi: y

pet session 1 (244, 82):

Script trying to trigger animations but PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION permission not set

You: OK, so this method does have some limitations

You: And the slide is wrong

You: Since we are going to be using Physics, the model can only have 31 prims, not 32 like it says here

Azazel Czukor scribbles that part out in her notebook

You: The bouyancy function we are gong to use has a mass limit of 90kg

You: which is pretty low

Candide LeMay: how do we control the mass

You: any heavier, and the model simply will ot float

You: the bigger your object the bigger the mass

Elle Pollack: The material of the object also maters, yes?

Alan Kiesler: So is there a simple way to have the mass computed for the final object/pet?

You: Does the material effect the mass? I'm not sure Ive never checked

You: to find the mass put this line in a script

Buwaya Edelbrock: How can you tell the on how heavy the item is?

Elle Pollack: I think it does. Plastic is lighter than wood is lighter than stone...

Basic Chair: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down

You: llSay(0,"mass = " + (string)llGetMass());

You: that will tell you how heavy your model is

You: if its too heavy, try holowing out some of the prims :)

You: that can work quite well

You: The thrid limitation is the diection

You: The model will move along its x axis

You: so your model must be set up so the red axi is poitning forward

You: Does everyone understand that?

Carrina Hathor: yes

neand Fleming: yes

Candide LeMay: 1

onionpencil Musashi: ja

Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes

Morlee Moreau: forward, as in root prim x axis needs to be 0?

You: it can be a pain if you find a model that you think wll look geat flying, but the axis is wrong

You: OK, back to the first point on this slide

You: although the limit is 31 (NOt 32 like it says)

You: I want you to limit your model to 30 prims

You: we will use the spare prim as part of the colsion detection later on

You: OK, your homework :) I love this bit!

You: mak a suitable model

Xander Moe: ok

You: Now, I wasnt sure how long that lot was going to take

You: So I have session 2 ready as well, we will not finish it tonight, but should get at least a third of the way through

Gino Medici: the direction thing - is that because we are use vehicle functions to move?

onionpencil Musashi: yay

You: Gino, no but it is related

Serious Grommet is offline

You: we are not going to be using the vehicle functions, its actually to do

You: with the sensor cone

You: remind me in alater session and Ill show yousome tricks for simulating real creatures

onionpencil Musashi: cool

Gino Medici: ok :)

You: one second, Im going to make a copy of the chat so far and drop it in a notecard

 

 

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