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Wrestling with a cylce texture script
Billyboy Cortes
Registered User
Join date: 2 Jun 2007
Posts: 3
08-21-2007 03:42
Hi everyone,

As I'm very new to scripting, I was wondering if anyone could help me indicate a very basic way to write a script that cycles images. That is to say, that it looks like the same image but flashing, like a neon.
I'd appreciate every su¡ggestion! :)
Kenn Nilsson
AeonVox
Join date: 24 May 2005
Posts: 897
08-21-2007 11:38
Well...you'll want to have a light-on, light-off + an llSetAlpha probably...

...if you were to do a pure neon...you could either

llSetPrimitiveParams(lighting stuff on)

+

llSetAlpha(1.0,ALL_SIDES)

OR

llSetPrimitiveParams(lighting stuff on)

+

llSetColor(color,ALL_SIDES);

Corresponding with an

llSetPrimitiveParams(lighting stuff off)

+

alpha invis or color black


You'll probably want to just run a sleep rather than a timer to cause change in a script this simple.
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Core Taurog
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Join date: 2 May 2007
Posts: 17
08-21-2007 11:49
You could also look at llSetTextureAnim - you'd probably want to use the "LOOP" setting - your texture would be, for example, a 2x2 arrangement (or 4x1 or 1x4 or whatever) with the light:

off/half-lit/full on/half-lit

then use

llSetTextureAnim(LOOP|ANIM_ON, <SIDE>, 2, 2, 0, 0, <rate>;);

<SIDE> would be ALL_SIDES, or 0 or whatever
rate is the frequency in frames per sec

You could also play around with scale/ping-pong for some interesting effects (e.g. scale it up and down 10% each way, with bright letters - making it look like it's blinking from low light to high light).

regards,

Core