[Opensim-users] creating bots at negative elevation

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Actually quickly googling makes me come across my own webpage where terrain lower limit was changed way way back to -100 
instead of 100, apparantly to remove terraforming issues in manipulating land below 100m.  Why this is -100 rather than 
zero though I don't yet know.

[1] http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/06/this-week-in-opensim-dev-week-ending-saturday-5th-july-2008/

On 01/02/12 01:08, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
> Call the police ;-)
>
> In my viewer, the region settings show, by default:
> 	- water height	20
> 	- terrain raise limit:	100
> 	- terrain lower limit:	-100
>
> These are the default values, I didn't change them, so I guess it's not "illegal" to go under zero… Or is the terrain lower limit based on something else than elevation?
>
> Though I admit it's odd to want to go so deep, I understand it's needed for a big under-water project like Titanic….
> (the only work-around would be to change water elevation, which would be quite odd for surrounding regions)
>
>
> Le 1 févr. 2012 à 01:59, Justin Clark-Casey a écrit :
>
>> To me, zero level is the co-ordinate z = 0, where it's totally illegal to try and place anything in a negative co-ordinate.  Under the water is different, at which point ground, to me, is the sea/riverbed.
>>
>> On 01/02/12 00:52, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
>>> (JCC: Having seen the project, I know this is not "under the ground", but deep in the water, which goes far below zero level, due to project needs…)
>>>
>>> I wouldn't be surprised if NPC was just coded without thinking somebody would try to do this ;-)
>>>
>>> Paul, I would suggest using the NPC sit functions on an object at the desired position (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OsNpcSit) to force the NPC go that deep, and after that you are free to make it stand or stay sitting…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 1 févr. 2012 à 01:36, Justin Clark-Casey a écrit :
>>>
>>>> By negative elevation, I presume that you mean below some arbitrary plane, rather than below ground? ScenePresence.CompleteMovement(), which is how the NPC (and any avatar) enters a scene does have code to prevent attempted rezzing below ground.  This is just using a 1.5f constant.  It's possible that if you're very near the ground then you would have a problem.
>>>>
>>>> On 31/01/12 20:56, paul emery wrote:
>>>>> I need to create some bots in our model of titanic which is underwater AND in
>>>>> fact is at negative elevation. My trigger object has a notecard with the bot
>>>>> information in it and a script with a touch_start event handler.
>>>>> In the touch event are these lines of code.
>>>>>
>>>>> vector npcPos = llGetPos()+<.5,0,0>;
>>>>> pc = osNpcCreate("Mr.", "Bot", npcPos, "mycard");
>>>>>
>>>>> What i find is that if the object is at zero elevation or above the bot is
>>>>> created half a meter from the object's position. However, if the object is
>>>>> at a negative elevation the bot is created at zero elevation and falls down
>>>>> to the elevation of the trigger object. This is interesting. Note that if
>>>>> the trigger object is up at any positive elevation the bot is created at
>>>>> that elevation.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that if i try to create a bot at a negative elevation in a
>>>>> room below deck i.e. that has a non-phantom roof the bot never can fall all
>>>>> the way down because they are not able to fall through the roof.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any body got any ideas on how do deal with this. It does seem like expected
>>>>> behavior would be to allow npcPos() to include negative elevation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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