[Opensim-users] Sailing in Opensim

[matt raffel]

Just curious, how does one feel the changes coming will work with land 
based vehicles.?   I'd love to a race track and bring the motogp to 
opensim ;)

Matt


James Stallings II wrote:
> We are working on hard on it :D
>
> I actually built a very simple flying physical vehicle last night.
>
> Problem is, llApplyImpulse and llSetForce do not honor the 
> local/global frame of reference argument.
>
> This is a bit of a pain, but it's not a show stopper. The script has 
> to do a lot of math to work around it until it gets fixed.
>
> More on this soon :)
>
> Tell your friends physical scripted vehicles are on the way.
>
> Cheers!
> James/Hiro/daTwitch/Lazarus
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Rhian <dutchy.rhian at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dutchy.rhian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am waiting for the moment we can sail/move on water accross sims,
>     I'd love to sail around and enjoy the waters I have created. Once it's
>     working people can use my water regions on OSGrid to sail/boat/fly
>     around if they want.
>
>     Rhian
>
>     On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Arnaud Fontaine
>     <arnaud.fontaine at gmail.com <mailto:arnaud.fontaine at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 03:11, Frisby, Adam
>     <adam at deepthink.com.au <mailto:adam at deepthink.com.au>> wrote:
>     >> This probably relies on vehicle physics
>     >
>     > Yes, sailing in SL relies on vehicle physics AND server side wind.
>     > It's tied to Havok.
>     >
>     > Wind should be very easy to implement : the server has to provide a
>     > direction and strengh + small variation ...
>     > About vehicle physics ... I don't know what ODE is capable of ...
>     >
>     > Anyway, sailing is very popular in SL and is very pleasant !
>     >
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