Climbing Kit

The Climbing Kit enables you to add a climbing up & down animation to any object such as a ladder or a rope, whether or not you have edit permission. The kit itself consists of 3 'climbing prims', Climb (Ladder/Rope) & Climb Vector, which can be customised for distance & direction of climb. Two prims are used for each climbable object, one positioned near the bottom to climb up, and one near the top to climb down. If you have edit permission for the object, the prims can be attached to it, to make a permanent & movable combination. In this case, the linkset can be moved and reoriented without the need for changing any of the parameters. Ready-made 6m-ladder* and 5m-rope combinations are provided for a quick-start trial. When the setup is complete, the climbing prims can be made transparent, and if preferred, phantom.

There are 2 versions of the climbing prims, both of which are are easily customised, requiring only 2 numbers (floats) or vectors to be put in Object Description in Edit. For added realism when climbing up a ladder, you may want the final step to have a sideways component, so that you do not appear to move through the ladder. Also in other applications, e.g. rock climbing, you may want the animation to move sideways while climbing. In these cases the Climb Vector is used instead of the simpler 'float' version.

For easy identification while working on your project, all the climbing prims display a graphic arrow on a coloured background, which is scripted to change in accordance with your chosen parameters.

Other animations can be used in place of those supplied*. The script in all the Climbing Prims except 'Climb Vector' is the same, so all that is needed is to replace the animations in Content with others of your choice, and to edit the SitTarget notecard if necessary.

Objects have Copy, Modify permissions; animations & scripts have Copy Permission.

* The animations & ladder included are sold/re-sold according to creators' ToS.

Comments & questions can be sent to Kharmen in IM.