[Opensim-users] Sitting an NPC

[Justin Clark-Casey]

I'm rather curious that people will spend a long time rather than trying to patch it in OpenSim itself.

Is it that the code is just too complicated to work out what's going on, people don't know c# or some other factor?  I'm 
interested to know.

On 22/10/11 00:07, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
> Holy sit! I've been spending hours trying to script a workaround for that ;-). Well, honestly, just thinking about it. I am happy I won't need it anymore.
>
>
> Le 22 oct. 2011 à 01:00, Justin Clark-Casey a écrit :
>
>> I've now experimentally implemented osNpcSit() [1] and osNpcStand() [2] (thanks to Fritigern for documenting these!).
>>
>> Sitting only works if there is a sit target.  Doing this without a sit target is not straightforward since the code conforms to the fact that in SL, an avatar sitting without a sit target is not detectable and not part of the linkset.
>>
>> Currently there's only one option, which is to sit the avatar from anywhere in the sim.  Might add an option to ask it to walk/fly there.
>>
>> [1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OsNpcSit
>> [2] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OsNpcStand
>>
>> On 13/10/11 17:04, Marcus Llewellyn wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:03 PM, David Burden<david.burden at daden.co.uk<mailto:david.burden at daden.co.uk>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     I also can't get scripts in attachments to stay working once rezzed back out of the notecard - known problem or am I
>>>     doing something wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>> Scripts attached to an NPC have been working fine for me. One thing to remember (sorry if it's obvious) is that
>>> attachments on an NPC won't run on land that restricts script execution to a group, or to the region owner. This is
>>> unfortunate, as it makes using NPCs that have scripted attachments while maintaining a defense against griefers pretty
>>> much impossible. And since NPC UUIDs aren't persistent, you cannot have them join a group or provide any real exception
>>> for them really.
>>>
>>> Right now, you can either let everyone on your parcel/region run scripts so that NPCs can run them too, or stick to
>>> controlling the NPC from an unattached object owned by you or another privileged user.
>>>
>>> As far as sitting goes, the best I've been able to do is to attach a chair to the NPC, and use osAvatarPlayAnimation to
>>> perform a sit animation tailored to fit the situation. Not ideal, but it works.
>>>
>>> Part of the problem here is that it seems as though as far as the simulator goes, NPCs are a first class user agent. It
>>> treats them just like any other client connected to the sim, but without the network overhead. It would be nice if NPCs
>>> were somewhere between a user and an object which could be owned, and which either inherited privileges from its owner,
>>> or could be assigned persistant privileges of its own.
>>>
>>> Better stop there before I start on a whole long wish list. ;)
>>>
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>>
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