llGroundNormal

vector llGroundNormal(vector Offset)

Returns the ground normal below the object position + offset.

Returns the ground contour at the object's position + Offset.

Parameters

Offset (vector)

Technical Details

Return Type: vector
Energy: 10

This function is defined as:

vector llGroundNormal(vector offset)
{
    vector slope = llGroundSlope(offset);
    return <slope.x, slope.y, 1.0>;
}

Notes

There is sometimes confusion between a Surface Normal (the direction from the surface) and a Normalized Vector (a vector with a magnitude of 1.0, also called a Unit Vector). This function does not return a unit vector. Surface normals may encode additional information in the magnitude of the vector. If you need a Unit Vector, simply use llVecNorm.

llGroundNormal

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