[sldev] Enabling llPointAt

[Kelly Linden]

Sorry to dash any hopes but on the server this function is currently a
no-op.  No data will get sent to the viewer.

 - Kelly

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Vector Hastings <vector at leafpile.com>wrote:

>  Anybody want to fix this?
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>
> Seems to me (though I’m no expert) that it’d be possible via a client-side
> hack… take the vector passed in lscript_library.cpp for script command
> llPointAt and feed back to the server a change in agent orientation as if
> the keyboard or mouse/flycam had made the necessary input. That would
> effectively ‘re-enable’ this old, deprecated script command. (we can compile
> scripts with it which seems promising, though I haven’t confirmed that the
> vector stored in the script is passed through the pipeline to the client.)
>
>
>
> There are big vote for this one! You could be a personal hero to so many
> (including me) J http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-56
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>
> (this Jira is classed as a new feature, but the script commands are there,
> so there’s an argument for it being a broken feature, though I suppose the
> official wiki says it was never enabled, which makes it ‘new.’)
>
>
>
> Cheers to all,
>
>
>
> Vector
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>
> *From:* sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com [mailto:
> sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] *On Behalf Of *Philippe (Merov) Bossut
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:40 PM
> *To:* Second Life Developer Mailing List
> *Subject:* [sldev] Small easy target features to consider for Snowglobe
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> It was suggested to me that some small relatively easy to hack features
> would be cool addition to Snowglobe. Additionally, those are small, limited
> tweaks to existing functionality so they should be nice targets for would be
> contributors looking for first contributions. Here are those 3 features:
>
> SNOW-386 : Improve "Show look at" feature : We have this under the Advanced
> menu as a debug feature already but it needs some polish to look less
> "geeky". I added some ideas of improvements suggestions in the JIRA record.
> Seems like an easy target as there's code already in there that just need
> love.
>
> VWR-7427 : Allow custom texture for selection beam particles : This is a
> year old request. Got some votes, no patch. The related code looks very
> small and easily hackable (I checked tonight). I'm not convinced of the
> importance of this as a feature but it's an easy and truly cool "first
> contribution" target :)
>
> VWR-7604: Suggested behaviour change for "Sit here" when targeting the
> ground : The JIRA description makes a lot of sense and is very clear. No
> patch though. That one is a feature I would use for sure. I haven't looked
> in the code but it seems possible to expand from the existing "Sit here"
> behavior (at least, start to understand that before moving to expand it).
>
> Any takers?
>
> Cheers,
> - Merov
>
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