Animations

Can you u/l an animation, or do u have to u/l frames and have a timer/texture changer script that blasts through the frames?

Somewhere in between

You have frames, all one one texture, and use the llAnimateTexture call.

Asher,

Take the frames of your animation and lay them all out on one texture. Check out the example image I've posted to see what I mean.

Then put that texture onto an object, let's say a cube for now. And add the following script to the object.

default 
{ 
    state_entry() 
    { 
        llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | LOOP, ALL_SIDES, 8, 8, 0, 64, 10);
    } 
} 

The values 8 and 8 specify how many frames are on the grid/texture. So in this case we have 8 x 8 = 64 frames.

Value 0 is the start frame. (Frames start at number 0, not 1).

Value 64 is animation length. (You could actually specify 0 for the end frame, it would play through to the very end of the animation depending on how big it was. I just put in the end frame myself as a force of habit).

Value 10 is the speed of the animation in frames-per-second.

As with other texture functions, ALL_SIDES could be a numerical value referring to any face of your object. In the case of a cube it would obviously be any face from 1 to 6. Etc.


There are a few other parameters that can be set to change the way the animation loops, and how it moves, etc. Check the lsl_reference.htm file in your Second Life install directory for more details on the llSetTextureAnim function.

Great, thnxs so much Ama, Deeblue!