Wanted: Analog Clock script

I wish to build and sell clocks. I am very good with graphics and can make some beautiful clocks. I was hoping to learn how to script. I have looked into it... and I am totally overwhelmed. I would like to make these clocks this year.

Can someone point me to a free analog clock script if there is one that I could use? If not, could you wonderful scripters give me a quote in Linden dollars to make a script for me that I can use on objects that I plan to sell?

Taking bids... You can also send them to my email at [email]lareinefroide@yahoo.ca[/email]. *Note the .ca on the end, not .com, denoting Yahoo Canada*

Thank you

Vivienne,

How are you going to handle the hands, design-wise...are you planning to overlay two centered transparent discs on the clock faces (the most obvious approach)?

Also, do you plan to use a second hand? I haven't tested it yet, but my thought is, that would be a bit of a lag-magnet....

-yoshi

Francis Chung has a freely distributable clock script.

I don't need a second hand, just an hour and a minute hand. If layering two disks is the best way, I shall do that. I can make my design fit the script.

Thanks for the tip regarding Francis Chung. I will try to reach her in game.

I don't know if this is going to affect you... it's just an FYI. It's caused me some trouble, so here it is:

Overlaying partially transparent objects or textures can cause you some trouble. It seems the rendering code isn't sure which of the transparent things it's supposed to draw first.

Now if we are talkin' about clock hands with an opaque back, it might work out ok. But do keep it in mind.

Also, don't forget that you can fake stuff. Francis Chung has a dynamite set of free clock functions (go buy a watch from him to get it, best watches around anyway). You could use that to keep track of your time and just move the hands accordingly. No one would be the wiser.

This is (sorta) a problem with the texture. It means your tga has an extra channel, or too many bits or something. Someone who knows P-shop better can explain.

(Which is to say this is *also* a bug in SL, but a work around-able one).

If anyone knows the solution to the alpha layer problem I'd love to hear it; I have problems with objects seeming to be on the wrong side of walls and so on when both wall and object have an alpha channel.

This isn't fixable at all. It's the nature of rendering and how transparency is faked. True transparency is only attained by raytracing, not rendering. The way most games deal with this is by not overlapping alpha textures
There's a bunch of posts around regarding this issue... they are probably in the feature suggestions forum. IIRC eltee statosky writes the more informative ones

Just another data point: while I have seen the rendering problem described, I have seen analog clocks that did not exhibit the problem. Coyote Murphy, who no longer appears to be playing, was the first one to use texture rotation to rotate the hands on an analog clock face, and it looked great.

Hi all,

A few comments:

- I don't have a free-to-copy clock hands script. I usually pass the requests I get for scripted clock hands to Catherine Omega who has also solved this problem

- The watch that I sell - there are two parts to it. The scripts that make it pretty (including the scripted hands), I've left closed. (nomod, nocopy). The parts that are functional (such as date/time conversion functions), I've open-sourced.

- Eggy, you are incorrect in your statements about alpha transparency. There are many rendering algorithms that will properly order drawing of alpha-transparent polygons in an OpenGL-non-raytraced framework. The most popular approach would probably be the use of BSP trees which can be used to enforce a back-to-front rendering order.

edit: typo

Francis, let's talk. I am good with graphics and can make some lovely antique clocks and grandfather clocks, but I do not have scripting skills. Perhaps we can come to some kind of arrangement?

Goody. Now tell that to the Lindens. I was just reporting what I had been told. I dont really care either way
My computer graphics class covered only the most dull and basic algorithms that I had already figured out on my own while experimenting with QBasic during high school.
Woohoo, "this is how you scale a vector", "this is how you multiply two matrices"! YAY! How utterly informative.

Vivienne,

I'll look you up in world when I get home. I have some clocks with scripts for the hands, and perhaps there is something we can work out.

That would be wonderful Samhain

If still needed, I also have an analog clock script laying around.