I am sure does of you who have some experience in building or scripting have long list of things that is impossible in Second Life.
I usually face such problems, but sometimes I try to convince myself that is my lack of knowledge in SL and not the fact that it is impossible to do it.
You may ask: “what happened that you start nagging again?”
To be honest, you will see me nagging a lot but the reason that this time I’m nagging about this particulate thing is the incident I faced two days ago with I was trying to build a very simple stupid thing (the one that you can see in the picture).
Two days ago, I had this vision of merry-go-round and how it would be possible to build such a thing. As I had no time for playing around as I usually do, I decided to build a version of it that can be used as an advertising kind of stand in the middle of my newly built place (actually modification from another building).
First I broke down the steps; (1) building the base which should rotate (2) cover of the book we need to advertise (3) sticks to link books to the base. There was no need for the sticks to be there but as long as i wanted to create something which would resemble to the RL object, I tried to make it realistic. After building the whole thing it was time to play with some of the variable to make my objects flexible so that they would move outward as the base starts to rotate, just like merry-go-around.
The first thing came to my mind was to play with gravity and wind and tension and the rest of the parameters but that was where I realized there is a problem and this is it:
“there is no way you can have you objects linked with the same flex center so that one will follow the other”
By this I mean, the books that I was trying to link to the flexi stick will not be linked to the end of the sticks as it would be in merry-go-round. I have tried almost everything that i would thing it might work, like putting both as flexi prims, only put one and the change the other one to see how it works but i have to tell u this, i didn’t find any way to give the same visual expression that i really want.
I’m still not sure whether there is any way to do it or not, but it there is please let me know. But what is related to that book on the stick thing…. I’m ganna keep it for a while and see what will happen.
And until finding the solution for that, this effect is “not possible in Second Life” for me.
