llInstantMessage only within 10 m distance ?

[Min Tigerpaw]

I'm working for a friend on adaption of a SL-script for sending notification-messages to region-owner & staff when a visitor comes close.
It works great finally but: the IM is only received if the receiving avatar is within 10 m of the object with the sensor script !
No IM is received if the distance is larger or the avi is in another region.

Is this a known issue - or something wrong with my code?

[Ilan Tochner]

Is this a personal IM or one sent to nearby chat? (which has a range limit)

[Min Tigerpaw]

Hmm ..Ilan ..the command sending the IM reads:

llInstantMessage(llGetOwner(), llDetectedName(i) + " has arrived at " + llGetRegionName());
or
llInstantMessage(staff2, llDetectedName(i)+ " has arrived at " + llGetRegionName());

Thus it should be a personal IM to the object owner / or the staff-member identified by key staff2 .

[Graham Mills]

Perhaps the problem lies with the sensor?

Hmm ..Ilan ..the command sending the IM reads:

llInstantMessage(llGetOwner(), llDetectedName(i) + " has arrived at " + llGetRegionName());
or
llInstantMessage(staff2, llDetectedName(i)+ " has arrived at " + llGetRegionName());

Thus it should be a personal IM to the object owner / or the staff-member identified by key staff2 .

[Min Tigerpaw]

Great idea Graham ..and you're right:
The IM is triggered from within a sensor event.
The distance the IM carries is exactly the distance defined in the range parameter of the llSensorRepeat function.

But why is it like this ? ... doesn't make sense for me. (only if the sensed avatar should be addressed which is not the case)
How can I make the IM carry longer distance and across regions?

[Graham Mills]

Well, I guess you could extend the reach of the llSensorRepeat (maximum: 96 m in SL) to detect more avatars. If you wanted to scan the whole region then there is osGetAgents or osGetAvatarList. No idea whether any of this works on a 2x2 etc.

[Min Tigerpaw]

Finally I could sort this out:
the llInstantMessage command works as it should, if triggered from a touch-event or from a timer-event
- however if triggered from a sensor-event, it will only work within the same region and for the distance set in the range-parameter of llSensorRepeat.
Not sure if this is intentionally like that in OpenSim (not sure about behavior SL)
Thus to solve the visitor registration & IM-message X-region to owner/staff I scripted a workaround that works nicely now and is in beta-testing.
I'll make it available in Kitely Market and @ my sandbox soon, when it has been testet more thoroughly.