Simple Hypergate from Hypergrid Business

For: OSC Monthly Challenge January 2012: Gates

This is about as simple as a hypergate can get. It’s one prim — a hollowed-out sphere. The scooped out inner part of the sphere has the water texture, and it’s set to full bright, so it looks like there’s a glow coming from it. It’s not a full face, so it’s not showing the full animation image, but it still works.

The download below includes the shape and textures — though it’s easy enough to assemble manually, as well, if the XML upload doesn’t work. Just make a half-sphere. Hollow it out and squish it a bit. Paint the outside whatever you like. Put the water texture on the inside. Paste in the script — it animates the inside hollow of the sphere and also sets it to automatically teleport anyone who walks into it to LBSA Plaza on OSGrid.

Even if they bump into it from the back — so be careful!

You can replace the OSTeleport command — which works instantly — with one which requires user confirmation by taking out that line and putting in:

llMapDestination(SimName, LandingPoint, LookAt);

More details here.

Edit the first line of the script to change the destination.

string SimName = "hg.osgrid.org:80";

It’s in quotation marks. Just replace it with any address you like — as long as its within reach. You’ll get floating text — it doesn’t show in the snapshot, but it’s pretty visible against the gate itself — showing the destination address.