creating pots

I'm just wondering, (I tried searching pots on Guru forum, and got nothing.) First of all how do I create a pot for a machine, and Second can I create a pot between mulitible machines?

Note this is for casinos. So I want a pot for like slot machines.

(So like you put money in a machine, if you win it takes money out of the pot, if you lose puts money into the pot.)

pot?

Ask Oneironaut.

Well, I made a Winnie the Pooh honey pot. Do you want that?

Oneironaut is certainly a good choice to ask about that but really, what do you mean by pot? A flower pot? A cooking pot? Sort of an odd question.

I think the only methods for handling money in the game are probably llGiveMoney and the money event. Any game that has a pot is simply keeping track of numbers, adding when more money comes in, subtracting when it pays out.

For more information check out the following on badgeometry.com/wiki (sorry not gonna link em *all* for you)
events
variables (global and local)
integers

Oh gambling pots. I guess that makes sense.

Ackertually, I think he means a potentiometer.

There's really no UI to rotate a dial. What you can have is a knob, and everytime you click on it, it goes up (or down) by a small quantized amount.

here is a (basic, typed in off the top of my head, untested) script to get you started

CODE

float fVal = 0;
float fInc = 0.1;
float fMax = TWO_PI;
integer nSide = ALL_SIDES;

default
{
  touch_start(integer n)
  {
    fVal += fInc;
    if (fVal >= fMax) fVal = 0;
    llRotateTexture(fVal, nSide);
    llSay(0, "current value is " + (string)fVal);
  }
}

HTH

Well would it be possible to have this across multiable machines?

And yes i'm talking about Casino Pot.

Wednesday , that "Pot" made me laugh!

he's talking about having a progressive pot that several slot machines are linked up to.

Yes exactly.

I just need to see code for a pot for one machine.

Can machines talk to one another?

Really? I prefer Bar Pot. Or Indonesian Pot.

But not Pol Pot.

I honestly thought that's what he meant

But the question is, does anyone have the code for a casino for a machine?!

Just do something like this;

set up an integer, like integer potmoney.

Then, whenever someone pays it, get the amont that it payed, and add it to integer potmoney. Whenever someone wins, pay them integer potmoney, and set potmoney to 0, or whatever you want the starting pot to be.

Batta-bing, batta-boom.

Well i guess what I don't understand is. How will the machine know to know to take money from my pot, and not me?

Ahhhh ok sorry for the confusion.

There is no such actual thing as a pot. None. Nothing. Zero. The only way to handle money in a game is for the game to give away your money and for other people to give their money to you through the machine.

Everytime someone bets $10 at a slot machine, they are paying $10 to the owner of that slot machine. Everytime that slot machine pays $10 to someone who is playing, it is taking money from the owner of the slot machine and giving it to the player.

Pots are faked by keeping track of a number. There is no actual pot beyond an integer variable that goes up and down.

If you want objects to communicate with each other check out (on the wiki again)
llSay
llShout
llEmail
llXmlRpc (although this is currently the toughest option)

Did you mean llSendRemoteData

If you did, I have bad news, its not implemented yet, nor will it be implemented soon

Thanks so much for explaining this to me. I hope in the future they do have pots.

Well, it's not really neccesarry...

Polling will work, but its neither elegant, efficient or easy. Thats why I said it was the hardest. I probably just meant www.badgeometry.com/wiki/xmlrpc