Automatic Light

Heres a simple little automatic light thingy.
This script turns an object to a light at night and glass during the day:

default {
   state_entry() {
      llSetTimerEvent(60);
   }
   timer() {
      vector sun = llGetSunDirection();
         if(sun.z > 0) {
            llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_GLASS]);
         }
         else {
           llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_LIGHT]);
         }
   }
}

Enjoy! I wrote this in the forums, so if there is a problem, spot it out for me

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Thanks so much! This is exactly what ive been looking for! Its realy really hard to shop and stuff at night and ive wanted a flashlight so bad!

Sytax Error, on a direct copy and paste?

llSetPrimitiveParams ([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_GLASS ]);
should be one line.

I wrote in on one line, just doesnt show that it is on one.

I just tried that on a sphere with all white, and it is not working... any ideas?

remove the space between MATERIAL and _LIGHT

llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL _LIGHT]);

Any way this can be made more efficient so it doesn't have to check ever 4 seconds if the sun is "up"? Surely that is a sim script resource drain. How about just checking the initial time and then, based on what the known day-night light cycle interval is, just using that instead?

Well, sim crashes, grid reboots, and time dilation would potentially mess with that. It'd probably make more sense to increase the sleep interval to somewhere between 60 and 300 seconds. The sun isn't changing fast enough to justify a check every four seconds...

*hits Alpha with a stick!* set that damn timer to something > 60.0!

default {
    state_entry() {
        llSetTimerEvent(300);
    }
    timer() {
        vector sun = llGetSunDirection();
        if(sun.z > 0) {
            llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_GLASS]);
        }
        else {
            llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_LIGHT]);
        }
    }
    touch_start(integer total_number) {
        vector sun = llGetSunDirection();
        if(sun.z > 0) {
            llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_GLASS]);
        }
        else {
            llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_LIGHT]);
        }
    }
}

I've not tested this yet... so not telling if it actually works, but its pretty simple it *should* work... just figured it'd be a slightly better method than checking every 4s... checks every 5m (i think), if its off (for whatever reason) after sundown or on after sunup you can toggle it to the correct state by touching it.... if it doesn't work i take no responsibility... *scurries off to hide*

Can't get either to work for me...

i'm no scriptor - but this works like a charm!!! thanks so much for the great script. you can get some pretty cool effects. i stuck a big box in the middle of this dark forest and you could see it so well!

Thank you!

ok all, I havent looked at this post for a long time, and I just noticed 2.5k people read it. Sorry about the bugs in the code, I fixed it, and set the timer to something above 60 =) Also: Give it a minute to work if you put it in the dark when you first start it, actually, wait 65 seconds for it to update

Why not just add an "on_rez" function to it, so it automatically checks when it is rezzed?

Here are a few general improvements:

integer state; //is it on or off?

state = 0;   //starts at off


update()
{
      if (state==0)
      {
                llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_GLASS]);
      }
      else
      {
               llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_MATERIAL,PRIM_MATERIAL_LIGHT]);
      }
}

checktime()
{
        if(sun.z > 0) 
       {
            state=0;
        }
        else {
            state=1;
        }
        update();
}

default {
    on_rez{
    {
         checktime();
    }    
    state_entry() {
        checktime();
        llSetTimerEvent(300);
    }
    timer() {
        checktime();
    }
    touch_start(integer total_number) {         //invert current state, like a switch
        if(state == 0) 
       {
            state=1;
        }
        else {
            state=0;
        }
        update();
         
    }
}

That should work... I don't have access to an SL-capable computer right now.

Try it out.

Also, once I get back on SL, I'll see if I can modify those annoying reproductive fish to be sterile, and to just follow around their owner as a light. (You know, the generation0, generation1, etc. virus-plague things)

dose this skript have light efects???? tryings to fin one that will come on bys its self when grts darks

DOH!

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