Texture Flickering

HIyas Everyone,

I'm trying to get a get "flicker" effect for a texture on the face of a prim. I've tried different approaches using while loops with llSetAlpha and llSleep. But I either have it going too fast (looks like just a constant Alpha of 0.5) or too slow. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

since timers and setalpha calls are handled server side by the script engine, it would probably be hard to get anything really consistent, you might have more luck putting together a texture of several sprites, possibly some alpha frames, and using llSetTextureAnimation so that the clients will render it.. like an animated gif with some built-in flicker?

The texture animation idea is a good one. You could try random periods between alpha/color/light changes too; that can look pretty flickery. Something like a random period of 0.8-1.5 seconds, followed by a "flicker" of 0.2 seconds (maybe as fast as script delay will allow), and then repeat.

It does seem that llSetTextureAnimation is the way to go. I've tried it with the different flags with different speeds, starts, and lengths. The best I get is a small flicker every few seconds. Still trying.

Okies... had to create new textures with some alpha frames. Adjusted the settings on llSetTextureAnimation and that seemed to do what I was looking for. Thanx for the help!