llBroadcast

ok, we have sensor events that we can set to work at any distance. but only whisper/say/shout.

Why not:

llBroadcast(float distance, integer channel, string message);

where distance <= llShout

This would allow for much more control in handling messages, and allow for sensors and script broadcasting to be exactly equal.

It doesn't seem it would take much to do.

*shrug*

Ooh, and if it's on a private island and the sim owner allows it, make it so that you can broadcast with an infinite distance. This would be tottally great for sim-wide communication systems. Right now, I use a hacked up relay system to achieve the same end, and it's a real pain.

So do I, and it sucks. If you want to be a good neighbor and not spam with shout, you're forced to use repeaters if you need chat to carry further than 20m. But repeaters carry a huge lag price with that open listener.

An arbritrary chat distance is sorely needed. I posted a similar thread here on the subject.

Yeah, we could use "llSimBroadcast", "llEstateBroadcast".

But that's a different issue, i'm specifically asking for reduced distance options in hopes that my request will go over easily

I like all the ideas. You could simply have "llBroadcast()" and then the max distance would not be whatever the hard-coded Shout demands but whatever the Sim itself dictates. So if the Sim owner wants Shout to be 256m, voila. The llBroadcast would then just rely on the sim setting.

But I am at least for Las's initial request, if not more.

MM

There MIGHT be one technical reason not to do this. It could be that whether objects are within whisper/say/shout range is actually determined and cached when each object MOVES rather than when the actual chat takes place. I'm not sure if that optimization would actually be worth it given the number of static and moving objects in SL, but it is a possibility.

Um...I think it'll become spaming reason if the script owner isn't the land owner, or officer. Also, there should be no range selection too. The range should cover the entire land you own in the same sim and other part of land shouldn't heard it too.

If you want lower range, you could always use llShout, llSay, or llWhisper

The trouble with no range selection is you have very little control over distance.

It could be argued that why does llSensor have such fine gradiation, and yet we have only 3 stages of chat?

Three stages of chat where one of them (llShout) has far too large of an increase over llSay.

Hello Lex,

I'm trying to implement a similar idea of a llsensor relay system. any pointers.

Walker