Texture Anim help - Blinking eyes

So I've got 'test' eyes texture mapped onto a sphere and now I'm trying to animate a blink. I managed to get it to blink once, quite nicely, and then the animation stops.

This is my first time attempting to script at all. Someone pointed me toward the merry-go-round at the Withnail Estate which has a tutorial on a blinking ram but for some reason I am unable to retrieve the scripts said to be free for the taking on the merry-go-round itself. *_*

So with the smallest amount of skill and information to go this is what I've come up with so far...

default {
state_entry() {
llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | PING_PONG, ALL_SIDES,2,2,0,0,5.0);
}
}

I'm sure there's got to be more to this! ^o^

Thanks for any help!

Found here.

// Add "LOOP" to the params
llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | PING_PONG | LOOP, ALL_SIDES,2,2,0,0,5.0);

Thank you, drive through.

*facepalms*

I can't believe how long I stared at that wiki page and it never occurred to me to try 'loop'.

Thank you! *^-^*

Oops...that just seems to make the eyes 'flutter'. No pause between the blinks. Looks like my sphere is having a bad contacts day.

Any ideas how to get a more natural blink cycle? ^-^;

Chances are, you'll have to hav multiple frames with the eyes open, then your frames with them closing/closed....

It loops all frames at the same speed, so if you have one frame of open eyes, one frame of half-lidded eyes, one frame of closed eyes... you'll get BLINKBLINKBLINKBLINKBLINKBLINK! To get a long delay you'll have to add copies of the open frame on.... so, say, have 20 open eyes frames, then your halfclosed then closed frame.

They probably will still blink pretty quick, and with 20 frames of eyes you'll have a huge texture forming. May have to resort to other methods. :>

Something like this may work (building off of Jeffrey's example):

You may need to play with the llSetTextureAnim options some also.

default
{
     state_entry()
     {
          llSetTimerEvent(7.0);
     }
     timer()
     {
          llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | PING_PONG, ALL_SIDES, 2, 2, 0, 0, 5.0);
     }
}

Hm...still not blinking. At least not consistantly. Blinks once when the prim is changed in any way...like being linked or unlinked. Blinks once when the script is changed and saved.

I'm trying to go through the wiki myself but I'm afraid I'm just not clever enough to know what I'm looking for! ^-^;

Thanks for the help!

Hi Merry...you could always ask Forseti...cant remember the surname.

She has made a tutorial for this..

Regards, Davy

I think there is a blinking script in the script library.

Ari's script with the timer event is the right track, but the LOOP was left out again.

Huh. This a bug or something? I know for fact there's an example of a texture animation that's smooth in the newbie inventory, and LOOP is the parameter to go for.... hm.

It's worked for me in the past.

Edit: Nevermind. Yeah, you want a timer. I'm too used to building long frames into my animations instead.

Posting when tired: Bad idea.

Here's what I use in my pet moogles and devils. It doesn't use animated textures (which would probably be more efficient), but might accomplish what you're aiming for...

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetTimerEvent(30.0);
        llSetTexture("NORMAL PET FACE",ALL_SIDES);
    }
    
    timer()
    {
        llSetTexture("BLINKING PET FACE",ALL_SIDES);
        llSleep(.2); 
        llSetTexture("NORMAL PET FACE",ALL_SIDES);
        llSetTimerEvent(llFrand(20)+3);
        
    }



}

Replace "BLINKING PET FACE" and "NORMAL PET FACE" with your eyes-shut and eyes-open textures. As is, once rezzed it will wait 30 seconds, blink, and then set reset the timer for X seconds, where X is the last line above " llSetTimerEvent(llFrand(20)+3);", I.E random number between 3 and 23 seconds.