[Opensim-users] Question about NPCs and attachments (Chris)

[Chris]

As far as I can tell the notecard is valid; I've also tested with a 
direct clone using osNpcCreate("Test", "NPC", llGetPos(), 
cloners_UUID_here);

On some further fiddling with it, it seems like the latest master is 
having some slight issues with baking; where I can tell that sometimes I 
end up with a completely white avatar after removing entire folder 
contents that contain attachments, skin, shape, etc., or sometimes it 
just won't bake correctly at all when I wear an entire folder (or 
sometimes individual clothing items). I found that I had to force a 
rebake a few times (ctrl alt R) before NPC creation in order to get the 
NPC to not load as a cloud.

I believe you may be right as far as NPC's not supporting multiple 
attachments. That's a bummer as I've been wanting to experiment with 
more and more complex NPCs and attachment scripting :)

On 2/5/2014 2:40 PM, Fred Beckhusen wrote:
> Do you have a valid appearance notecard?  This looks like the 
> appearance is corrupt.
>
> It is very likely that NPC's cannot take multiple attachments, as that 
> is both a viewer function ( to attach) and a server function ( to 
> report it),
> and NPC's are fairly old and thus pre-date multiple attachments.
>
>
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> On 2/5/2014 2:31 PM, Chris wrote:
>> Hmm I can't tell now. On the latest master the NPC rezzes in as a 
>> cloud and on the console I see this:
>>
>> 14:06:35 - [NPC MODULE]: Created NPC 
>> 8e0fd659-78a7-4e41-8187-d420d9d7e577 New NPC
>> 14:06:40 - [AVFACTORY]: user 8e0fd659-78a7-4e41-8187-d420d9d7e577 has 
>> no inventory, appearance isn't going to work
>>
>> It has been past experience though that it doesn't matter if I detach 
>> every thing first then reattach.
>>
>> I have seen that if I make a change to an attachment and then create 
>> an NPC that change won't be reflected on the NPC's version of the 
>> attachment until I first detach the attachment(s) and then reattach. 
>> But to my knowledge I've never been able to get an NPC to render 
>> correctly if it had more than one attachment on the same attach point 
>> (Such as Hair (skull), Hat (skull), Pants (Pelvis), Belt (Pelvis) ).
>>
>> On 2/5/2014 6:10 AM, Fred Beckhusen wrote:
>>> re Chris:   "NPC won't render correctly"   "If the avatar is wearing 
>>> one attachment per attach point then it works
>>> as expected and everything renders properly."
>>>
>>>
>>> Does it still happen if you first put on the attachments, and then 
>>> take them off, and put them back on again?
>>>
>>> I see your symptoms if that procedure is not followed, even for 
>>> single attachments, as Opens only saves the position when removed, 
>>> and not when attached.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ferd Frederix/Fred Beckhusen
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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