Building Discoveries

I had created a simple map of the island that is located at the main telehub for the island. Today I decided to add individual teleports to the locations on the island to the map board. I do not really like those little teleport "balls" that hang next to teleport boards.

I came up with an interesting solution. I created a series of thin, transparent overlays to place over each of the areas of the sign, and put the teleport script in each transparent object. Now it looks like you are clicking directly on the sign to teleport!

Then I learned two new things. I wanted to move a copy of the sign to other spots on the island so I linked the 8 parts. I moved the sign, but the teleport scripts no longer worked. I figured out that you may not be able to link objects with different scripts (makes sense) so, once I unlinked, and just locked the parts, the teleport scripts worked again.

However, I then found out the teleports on the new signs no longer TP'ed to the correct location! Since the locations are absolute locations, I could not figure out why. I opened the scripts, tried the "reset" button, and all was well! So, I guess the teleport script takes into consideration where the sign is located, and the locations I typed in are actually relative to the location of the sign.

I am betting this is already written down, step-by-step, in the SL Knowledge Base somewhere. But I enjoy experimenting, making mistakes, and most importantly, getting it right!

Kathy Schrock

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