Creation Pack "Extra doors" should auto-close when linked ones do
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Qie Niangao
Ideally, the Linden Home's auto-close door setting would not only be announced by link message to the home's own scripts but be accessible to unlinked, user-created content on the parcel, including the "Extra door" items in the Content Creation Pack.
But failing that (and it would be a more general solution anyway), the door script should be open source —or at the very least the sound assets provided, by UUID if nothing else—so we can replace the script ourselves but still maintain consistency with other doors in the build. If the user writes the script they can make it auto-close or not, but still it would be best if user scripts could access the current auto-close setting for the house-linked doors.
(I'm working with the Ridgewood Enclave theme but presumably all themes frequently get user-added doors.)
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Oatmeal Linden
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Hello Qie! Thanks for the suggestion. The extra doors included with some of the content packs are objects you add into your own parcel, which may mean that the house scripts will not work due to ownership and permissions. We are marking this as tracked for review, and will update with any resolution as soon as we can.
Qie Niangao
Oatmeal Linden So, for now, I adapted a script I wrote originally to open and close cabinet doors to now optionally auto-close, replacing the script in the Ridgewood Enclave door I was especially wanting to auto-close, but I realize two things:
- Man, do I need those sounds! I'm now going to waste hours hunting for reasonable approximations of the sounds in the standard Ridgewood doors. (Meanwhile my door sounds like a fancy soft-close cabinet.)
- The whole auto-close thing is ideally a per-door setting, which I can do with my own script, but now I wish I had it in all the linked doors, too. In my case, I generally want almost all the outside doors to close themselves, and almost all the interior doors to stay open until closed manually. Of course it's all about appearance: With few exceptions, it looks weird for exterior residential doors to hang open, or for interior ones to be closed. (But withthose few exceptions.)
Point is, I think I asked for the wrong thing, but also I'm coming to realize I'm not really meant to have a Linden Home: I want to customize to an unrealistic degree of fussiness.
Dyna Mole
This is a reasonable expectation, but not one that can be met easily in houses that are currently in the Bellisseria rezzers. The auto-close setting is saved in a house's Control Panel script and made available to other scripts by link massages, not broadcast. Because the house is owned by Linden Lab and a resident cannot link anything to it, there's no way for a resident's script to access those link messages. In future releases, or possibly as part of a larger set of upgrades, we will consider modifying our scripts to make the setting accessible from the outside.
Oatmeal Linden
Dyna Mole: Thanks Dyna!