help with missile

[SaraCarena]

Hi, I`m new to scripting and have searched sl wiki on how to solve this but the jargon`s a bit techy for me.

Working on a missile that pushes an avatar and says a message when it hits which is working fine, avatar gets pushed, message says "xxx was hit by xxx".

The problem is that if the missile misses the intended avatar it generates the message about any prim that it does hit, which I`d rather not have. Obviously I`m only interested in the message showing when an av is hit but can`t figure how to stop message showing when it hits any old random prim.

code I`m using is:

 llOwnerSay(llDetectedName(0) + " is hit by slushy snowball");

I understand that llDetectedName() can apply to av`s and prims but can`t figure how to just apply it to av`s.

Thanks in advance for any help

[nuBko1]

do not worry everything will

[Niall Braveheart]

 

You could use llDetectedType to determine whether the object collided with an Avatar or Object

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlDetectedType

 

if (llDetectedType(0) & AGENT_BY_LEGACY_NAME)   {        llOwnerSay(llDetectedName(0) + " is hit by slushy snowball");    }

 

 

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Please, for the sake of people like me who get so annoyed when scripts talk about "so and so Resident," use llDetectedName(0), like this

if (llDetectedType(0) & AGENT_BY_LEGACY_NAME){			llOwnerSay(llGetDisplayName(llDetectedKey(0))+" is hit by a slushy snowball");//nb correction		}

 

[Perrie Juran]

Maybe you could program it to say when it misses, "Ha Ha, you can't throw to save your life."

(I did think of some other insults but decided I'd get my ass zinged if I posted them).

[SaraCarena]

Works perfectly thank you and helped me understand a little bit more about lsl. How apt that you sell chrimbo cards too!

[SaraCarena]

umm..thanks was to Neil coz I missed the other posts but thanks to you Innula I will sooo try to avoid the "resident" bit, does annoy me too. VERY funny Perrie!!, certainly an idea

[Innula Zenovka]

Eeep.. I made a horrible mistake.. please see my corrected version

[SaraCarena]

Just tuts at Innula...too many christmas spirits ..eh?....thanks though, beginning to see how lsl functions/thingies stack up to achieve more complex....ummm...thingies

[Perrie Juran]

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SaraCarena wrote:

umm..thanks was to Neil coz I missed the other posts but thanks to you Innula I will sooo try to avoid the "resident" bit, does annoy me too. VERY funny Perrie!!, certainly an idea

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When I was a kid learning to play baseball the common insult was, "You throw like a girl."

I don't think that would be very acceptable today. 

[SaraCarena]

Well Perrie, some girls can`t catch......or sing!