Another "oops" moment

Day 36

If you're on a platform hundreds of meters up in the air, don't make a prim and then turn on the "Phantom" and "Physical" checkboxes just to see what will happen.

What will happen is: as soon as you don't have your phantom physical prim selected for editing anymore, the "Physical" setting will cause it to drop straight down, and the "Phantom" setting will let it go right through the floor. And then all the way down to the ground, passing through every platform and building in the way. And then, when it hits the ground, it'll bounce and roll away. And then it may try to go into a zone where somebody's put up a "no entry" barrier, and bounce away from that.

But of course since you were hundreds of meters up and it caught you by surprise, by the time you get down to the ground, it's had a huge head start and you have no idea where it's gone. And the next thing you know, you're dredging the river looking for your prim. Which is where I finally found mine.

Oops!

Day 35

I tortured a torus into a spindly, curvy shape and made a simple rotation script in it — really nothing more than llTargetOmega( <0,0,1>, 10, 0.1 ) — and just for the heck of it, turned on the "Physical" checkbox to see what it would do.

It hit the ground, fell over, and started rolling away — and it was so spindly, I couldn't select it to turn off the script! I chased after it, madly right-clicking all the way, and it hit the edge of the sim and disappeared. A few minutes later, I was notified that it had been returned to my Lost and Found folder because it had dropped off the world, two sims away. (I wonder if there are any Wild West sims that could use some tumbleweeds?)

Next time I decide to play around with physical objects, I'm building a corral for them first — and minimizing the script window after I save instead of closing it, so I can uncheck the "running" box if something goes horribly, horribly wrong.

On a side note, I see that I've used exclamation points in just about every post title so far. I'm going to have to watch that, or I'll run out of them.