Swimming KinoSquid

° Ignores or avoids objects
° Swims over: the parcel it is in,
° OR the owner's parcels
° OR any parcel with permission enabled
° Can detect and swim over group owned land
° Low lag, low prim, scripted non-physical object

This mollusk has incredibly realistic motion! It will swim anywhere on your property that there is water, but never repeat the same path! A chaotic algorithm makes it behave in complex ways without being random. By default it will detect the edges of your property and stay inside them. It will not swim into the ground, out of the water or outside of the sim boundaries. You can also change the squid to one of 3 boundary modes: It will stay inside the parcel it is in, it will stay inside the owner's parcels (if you own more than one and they are adjacent) or it will swim everywhere in the sim that it finds friendly permissions set. It needs "Object Entry" to cross a parcel boundary and "Run Scripts". These land permissions can be set for all residents, or for a group if the owner has that group active at the time the squid is rezzed. The squid has four avatar modes, it will ignore, avoid, chase or attack them. In chase mode it will move towards nearby avatars and go into orbit around them. In attack mode it will bump avatars and push them around. In avoid mode squids will leave a puff of ink in the water when they turn away. The squid is normally a phantom object and swims through obstacles in its path. However, it has an "object avoid" mode where it attempts to detect objects in its path and turn away. When not avoiding an object or turning to stay in bounds, the squid will travel in a back-and-forth swimming path, but has an option for going in straight lines between boundaries. The combination of a 3D tail, animated flexy tentacles and complex behavior makes this squid look incredibly realistic for only 3 prims!

Visit the Ocean Engineering Store, Panthalassa (131, 120, 43) for more autonomous creatures that exhibit complex behavior.