Creating A Flying Pet: Lesson 1 Chat Log

 

Candide LeMay: so folks what kind of pet will you do?

Azazel Czukor: hmmmm

You: well id justlike to improve my snail

Azazel Czukor: oh are you the snail racing guy?

You: yup

Azazel Czukor: cool, I've been meaning to check that out

Alan Kiesler: I'm actually looking to enhance the movement of my GlowGlobe project. Have it hover and bob a bit more than the standard following script.

You: tuesdays the next one

Candide LeMay: racer perhaps when you swap the event descriptiong (english first, french second) more people will notice it

Morlee Moreau: id just like a kewl pet dragon, lol

You: ya someoone mentioned that

You: i ive got a publisist now and hes hipping me to al that stuff

Elle Pollack: Hey Racer

You: hey elle

You: this is catfart he makes all my cool stuff go

Elle Pollack: Heh :)

Catfart Grayson: Hi all

You: cloudy here

Catfart Grayson: gak!

Candide LeMay: alt _

Catfart Grayson: lol, too many textures

Xander Moe: hello im here for the class im not late am i?

You: catfarts stuk or ghosted

Azazel Czukor: nope, right on time Xander

onionpencil Musashi: poor guy

Catfart Grayson: OK, can we have all scripts of, and cut down on any prim heavy attachments or clothes, thnx

Candide LeMay: try to move now

Catfart Grayson: aha thnx

Carrina Hathor: hi onion!

onionpencil Musashi: hi carrina

Candide LeMay: draw distance 64 should also help

Catfart Grayson: Ok, give me one more minute and Ill be with you

Catfart Grayson: OK, has the screen rezzed for eveyone?

Xander Moe: yes

onionpencil Musashi: i'm good

Xander Moe: i see session 1

Carrina Hathor: yes

Hokuto Gorham: yep

Catfart Grayson: if you want to get rid of the clouds, get your debug menu up

Xander Moe: and everything else

Catfart Grayson: select rendering, select types and the unselct clouds

Morlee Moreau: whew, thanx

Xander Moe: where is debug menu

onionpencil Musashi: excellent, thanks

Azazel Czukor: ctrl-alt-shift-D I think

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

onionpencil Musashi is way too excited about the class

Catfart Grayson: this course will run over 4 or five weeks

Catfart Grayson: problaby every sunday afternoon like this

Catfart Grayson: I expect you to have some knowledge of scripting

Catfart Grayson: this course is more about design than how to use

Catfart Grayson: individual functions

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

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

Xander Moe: nope go on

Catfart Grayson: 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

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

Tink: ??

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

Tink: My name is Tinker

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

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

Catfart Grayson: Ill demonstrate that

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Tink: My name is Tinker

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

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

Tink: Look at me

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Catfart Grayson: 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!

Catfart Grayson: she also obeys some commands

Catfart Grayson: Tink here

Tink: All right

Xander Moe: that is so cool

Catfart Grayson: now she will stay close to me

Catfart Grayson: Tink sit

Tink: Touched.

Tink: Hey! stop that

Catfart Grayson: hmm sometimes she ignores me

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Catfart Grayson: Tink play

Tink: OK Boss

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Tink whispers: Bubbles!

Catfart Grayson: Tink sit

Catfart Grayson: lol, she doesnt want to sit

Elle Pollack: Hehe

Tink: Look at me

Tink: Got any spare teeth?

Catfart Grayson: 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

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

onionpencil Musashi: 3 sl time maybe? not sure

Ariel Monde: Superbowl ?

Azazel Czukor: another hour or so?

Catfart Grayson: OK, so here are some basic requireemnts

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

Dr Tapioca: 3:30 SL time, I believe

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

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

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

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

Catfart Grayson: Ill give this a few seconds to rez

Catfart Grayson: 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

Xander Moe: ok ready

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

Catfart Grayson: this is how LSL is desinged to work

Catfart Grayson: separate scripts with specific functions

Hokuto Gorham: different scripts run in parallel?

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

Catfart Grayson: Hokuto, es

Catfart Grayson: yes

Hokuto Gorham: thanks

Catfart Grayson: just checking back making sure I havnt missed any questions

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

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

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

Catfart Grayson: its reached the location

Catfart Grayson: the brain can then decide todo something else

Catfart Grayson: like perform a random action

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

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

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

Catfart Grayson: :0 did I mention the homework?

Gino Medici: what does the action script do?

Dr Tapioca: HW?!?

Xander Moe: no you didnt

Catfart Grayson: 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

Catfart Grayson: everyone happy with this screen?

Hokuto Gorham: yes

Catfart Grayson: OK, so this method does have some limitations

Catfart Grayson: And the slide is wrong

Catfart Grayson: 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

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

Catfart Grayson: which is pretty low

Candide LeMay: how do we control the mass

Catfart Grayson: any heavier, and the model simply will ot float

Catfart Grayson: 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?

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

IM: Kim Anubis: ty though, Bunny

Catfart Grayson: to find the mass put this line in a script

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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

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

Catfart Grayson: that will tell you how heavy your model is

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

Catfart Grayson: that can work quite well

Catfart Grayson: The thrid limitation is the diection

Catfart Grayson: The model will move along its x axis

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

Catfart Grayson: 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?

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

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Catfart Grayson: OK, back to the first point on this slide

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

Catfart Grayson: I want you to limit your model to 30 prims

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

Catfart Grayson: OK, your homework :) I love this bit!

Catfart Grayson: mak a suitable model

Xander Moe: ok

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

Catfart Grayson: 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

Catfart Grayson: Gino, no but it is related

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

Catfart Grayson: with the sensor cone

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

onionpencil Musashi: cool

Gino Medici: ok :)

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

onionpencil Musashi: excellent plan!

 

 

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