Texture Animation

Hopefully someone can help me out here.

I've got a texture I want to animate but i'd like it to only loop a few times and then stop on a specified frame. I've tried:

1. Specifying the length on llSetTextureAnim to be higher than the total number of frames. But it seems to outsmart me and not bother looping.

2. Starting the animation on a continuous loop and then using llGetTextureOffset to work out what frame it's on so i can stop it at the right point after a while. Unfortunately gettextureoffset doesnt seem to report the correct value while the animation is running.

Does anyone else have an idea how to do this?

Thanks,
Hawk.

Well, since llSetTextureAnim() is a client-side function, and all the timing functions in LSL are not client side functions, I don't think you'll ever be able to do this perfectly as things stand now. I've done this with a for loop and an llSleep(), but in high-server-lag areas, the timing is probably going to get a bit munged. This is what I did, at least (for reference, it's a 6x6 tiled animation texture, 36 frames total):

// Number of full repeats of the anim to run.
integer repeats = 2 ;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        integer i ;
        for( i = 0; i < repeats; i++ )
        {
            // Start one full animation, at 12 frames per second.
            llSetTextureAnim( ANIM_ON, ALL_SIDES, 6, 6, 0, 0, 12.0 ) ;
            
            // Wait for the animation to finish its run.
            llSleep( 2.0 ) ;
            
            // Stop the animation on the last frame (otherwise it 'freezes').
            llSetTextureAnim( ANIM_ON, ALL_SIDES, 6, 6, 35, 1, 0 ) ;
        }
        
        // Play the animation to the 12th frame, and stop there.
        llSetTextureAnim( ANIM_ON, ALL_SIDES, 6, 6, 0, 12, 12.0 ) ;
    }
}