Small, pulsating light?

I need a small, pulsating light, like a hard drive light... I've been messing with it for about an hour and just thought I'd ask. I don't use particles much, don't really want to learn just for this one tiny, tiny thing.

Basicllay I just need a script that will make a very tiny (.05mx.05m) blinking light, seemingly random. I will be changing it from red to green, I just need help with the small, blinking part.

Thanks

Is this a prim-light design, or could you just use a dimpled sphere which changes color from green to red? If you're conserving prims, then I guess you'll have to wait for a particle guru to help ya.

A basic "flasher" script should work, IM im ingame and I'll send you one. As for a particle light it will still have to be based on a prim, so it's really up to your detail.

I havent tested this code... so please try to fix if there is a missing semicolon... Ill try my best

integer i;
default {

      state_entry() {
                 
                  llSetTimerEvent(1); //change the 1 if you want to the number of seconds between each color change
       }

       timer() {

                 if(i) {
                       llSetColor(<1,1,1>); //this is the on color (this is a white)
                 }
                 else {
                      llSetColor(<0.8,0.8,0.8>); //this is the off color (this is a light grey)
                 }
 
                 i = !i;
       }
}

hope that help!

Ack, don't use a timer! That will add to server-side lag.

Use a very small, animated texture instead.

Would a random sleep between color changes work?

Or, better yet, use llSleep(x) to trigger texture offet.

Does texture offset require an update like a color change does?

Champie

Dang Hank, you beat me to it

To expand a bit, create a tiny, like 32x32 texture with an 8x8 grid of red and green squares, randomly on or off.
Then drop this script in:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON|LOOP|PING_PONG,ALL_SIDES,8,8,0,63,10);
        llRemoveInventory(llGetScriptName());
    }
}

no server side load at all once the object is rezzed.

Lots of animation and particle scripts need to do this.
*Any* script in an item even if it's not doing anything does take a small slice of server time. I believe LL has worked fairly hard at making it a very minimal slice but using the permanent attributes of a prim and removing the script is much much more efficient.


L8r,
UU

P.S. this is a very small and badly compressed jpg I meant to save as bmp but dont have time at lunch to recreate it (stupid mspaint)

that's fantastic Upshaw!

thanks for explaining that.

Champie