Full-Perm Long-Distance Teleport Script
Written 17 June, 2009
Full-Perm Long-Distance Teleport Script
I’ve known about the Warp Pos script for a long time, but I was never able to make it work.
And besides, it didn’t work beyond about 1000 meters, which is insufficient to reach today’s building ceiling of 4096 meters.
For a long time I’ve been using a Warp Pos teleport script Peter Stindberg was kind enough to give me, but I’d been needing a script that would extend to 4096, and I preferred one with full perms. So last night I thought I would look one last time in the Forums for a long-distance (4km) teleport script—and I found one!
I jumped to a sandbox (didn’t want to lose the prim holding the script somewhere on Whimsy) and pasted in the script I had copied from the forum post.
OMG! It compiled!
The script works gets its information from the Description field. It took a few tries to get the destination vector and other parameters formatted correctly, but I eventually prevailed.
Then I sat on the prim.
Woo hoo!
Uh-oh.
No woo hoo.
I was told I wasn’t allowed to teleport.
After digging around in the script a bit I found a conditional that for some reason was disallowing me to teleport and disabled it. I sat on the script and was promptly whisked 4000 meters into the sky.
Woo hoo!
When you sit on a teleport object, it travels with you. When I arrived at my destination, I saw the prim clearly before it returned to its origin position.
So I flew back down (well, I let myself fall), put in statements to turn the prim alpha after I saw on it and visible again after it returned home, and I soon had a working teleport script.
I’m still not quite satisfied (do I want to remove the one second pauses after sitting and after teleport is complete?), so I’ll continue to tweak. Meanwhile, you can find the script here on Whimsy, or IM me and I’ll send you an object with my latest mod of the script inside it, full perm. Please do not remove the original creator's language, which is embedded in the code.
To test the script, travel to the entry area of Whimsy and touch one of the small brown destination signs. You can grab your copy at my Flights of Fancy store.
4 comments:
The old WarpPos had a built-in 1000m limit because otherwise it might risk running out of memory. With Mono, this is not an issue (well, it's an issue, but not a practical one). There's a vastly-improved version of WarpPos here: http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=LibraryWarpPos It's the very last one.
I couldn't find a good freebie tp script, so I made one that I hand out to people. You rez a prim, name it with the text you want in the hover text, put the destination vector in the prim description, drop in the script, and it works. IM me if you want a copy.
--Cinco Pizzicato
There are two types of long-distance TP scripts around right now:
1) Warppos
It calculates a line-of-sight to the destination, and the required number of steps to move an object from start to end. The good thing is that it uses perfectly legit LSL calls, and will always work. The bad side is it fails if banlines are between start and end. Warppos nowadays can go to 4000m - I should send you an updated one.
2) <0,0,0> Exploit
This script is incredibly fast since it only needs a single hop. It is based on a glitch in SL which allows an object at the <0,0,0> position in a sim to reach ANY spot in the sim within one hop. The good thing is that banlines etc. can not prevent this script from working. The bad thing is that is relies on a bug in SL that eventually might get fixed, thus rendering this teleport nonfunctional. However we all know the speed with which LL fixes things...
I am trying use your script but I cant get to the destiny. I created one skybox, got the position and put on the script (gTargetPos) but I cant reach the skybox, I go to a totally different position. What am I doing wrong??
Paulorp, the coordinates go in the description line. There's no need to change the script.
IM me with your Second Life name and I'll send you the script in a prim so you can see how it works-- or go to my store (SLURL follows) and pick up a box which inludes a prim)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Whimsy/79/91/701
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