Discussion: Growth Script

A script to make a prim grow on it's Z- axis when the sun is out. And halt growth when the moon is. Also gets the percentage of it's growth from the max 10m limit. I hope you like it. My first script publically released.

//Growth Script
//By Floog Stuart
//Some parts of the script taken from Cid Jacob's Photosynthesis Script.
//
//Makes a prim grow on it's Z axis when the sun is out. Starts growth when touched.
//If you edit this script please give credit to Me and Cid Jacob


vector direction;                                   //States the variables used in the script
vector scale;
float growth; 
vector pos;
float repos;


default 
{ 
    state_entry() 
    { 
        llSetText("",<1,1,1>,1);                    //Clears Text above prim. 
    } 
    
    touch_start(integer num_detected)
    {
        llSetTimerEvent(15);                        //Starts growth in 15 seconds
    }
    timer() 
    {
        //Growth Timer
        float FloatValue  = llFrand(60);            //Creates a random value between 60 and 0 to be used to decide how many seconds to delay between growth
        if (FloatValue < 10)                        //if the random value is below 10 seconds
        { 
            float AddedValue = FloatValue + 15;     //it adds 15 more seconds
            llSetTimerEvent(AddedValue);            //Sets the new growth delay to AddedValue
        } 
        else                                        //If the random Value was above 10.
        { 
            llSetTimerEvent(FloatValue);            //Set the new growth delay to FloatValue
        } 
        
        
        //Growth
        growth = llFrand(.005);                     //Decides how much to make it grow each time.
        direction = llGetSunDirection();            //Checks to make sure the sun is up.
        if ( direction.z > 0 )                      //If the sun is up.
        { 
            scale = llGetScale();                   //Gets the size of the plant.
            llSetScale(<scale.x,scale.y,scale.z + growth>);                                                                    // Adds the amount it needs to grow to the Z axis.
            
            //Growth Percentage
            float growth_percent = scale.z / .100;  //Finds the percentage it is to it's max height.
            llSetText("Growth " + (string)growth_percent + "%",<1,1,1>,1.0);                                   //Adds the Growth Percentage above the prim.
        }
  
        if(scale == <scale.x, scale.y, 10.00000>)   //Checks if the prim is max height.
        { 
            llSetText("Full Grown",<1,1,1>,1);      //Says that the prim is full grown.
            state fullgrown;                        //Goes to state fullgrown
        }
        
        //Reposition
        
        pos = llGetPos();                           // Gets current position
        repos = growth / 2;                         //Sets the amount to reposition to half that of which it grew. To avoid the prim from sinking into the ground.
        if ( direction.z > 0 )// Makes sure that it is still daytime
        {
            llSetPos(<pos.x,pos.y,pos.z + repos>);//Sets the new position.
        }
        
    }
}

state fullgrown //state fullgrown is used to keep the prim from repositioning when it doesnt need to anymore.
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetText("Full Grown",<1,1,1>,1);
    }
}

You should consider replacing

         //Growth Timer
         float FloatValue  = llFrand(60);            //Creates a random value between 60 and 0 to be used to decide how many seconds to delay between growth
         if (FloatValue < 10)                        //if the random value is below 10 seconds
         { 
             float AddedValue = FloatValue + 15;     //it adds 15 more seconds
             llSetTimerEvent(AddedValue);            //Sets the new growth delay to AddedValue
         } 
         else                                        //If the random Value was above 10.
         { 
             llSetTimerEvent(FloatValue);            //Set the new growth delay to FloatValue
         } 
 

with

llSetTimerEvent(10+llFrand(50));

This ensures that timer events are between 10 and 60 seconds.

Saves you two variables and way too many lines of code

sounds like a fun thing to do...

actual growing plants!!

there is a working garden in SL but i have forgotten the location right now... maybe someone else knows.

but, yeah... i smell a fun SL business growing here =)

Anyone intersted in actual growing plants MUST VISIT SVARGA. (I hope I spelled the name right.

Yeah, Svarga was what inspired me to do this script. I'm trying to add a watering system and make it so it has branches that grow also. I haven't had much chance to log in to work on that though.

It may have been deliberate that delays between 15-25 seconds were more common.

Probably NOT the Garden you`re thinking of, but see the list of My Gardens in Random Ramblings of Lauren Mandelbrot.

even then, I could save some lines with

if (FloatValue < 10) { FloatValue += 15; }
llSetTimerEvent(FloatValue);

I have growing plants in my inventory somewhere i made them a while back but havent really tried selling them yet the 2 things you have to work on is plants dont just grow up the x and y need to grow too and what do they do when they are full size. mine revert to seedlings

Im not a scripter as such but how cool this would be if combined with a fractal generator i.e. a fractal tree generator (like the one in the scripting library)

Taz