timer help

so you can't have 2 timers in the same script right?

So could i create a second script in the same object, and have that have a timer, but how would the 2 scripts speak to each other if they are in the same object?


Help anyone

You can't have two timers, but you can fake it

integer nTimeOut1 = 3; /* do something every 3 seconds, for example */
integer nTimeOut2 = 4; /* every 4 seconds */
integer nTime = 0;

timer1()
{
     /* do stuff */
}

timer2()
{
     /* do other stuff */
}

default{
     state_entry()
     {
          llSetTimerEvent(1.0);
     }
     timer()
     {
          nTime++;
          if ((nTime % nTimeOut1) == 0) timer1();
          if ((nTime % nTimeOut2) == 0) timer2();
          ...
     }
}

if you really want to have two different scripts in the same object talking to each other, you can use link messages. Look up llMessageLinked.

actually i'm just using llGetTime(), and llResetTime() with my timer. It works fine.

If you were using more than one prim in your project, each prim can have a script in it that can communicate with the prime prim.

What would happen if you wanted to do two scripts in the same prim though? Is that hard to send linked messages to a script in the same prim?

Not hard at all Samhain..

e.g.

llMessageLinked(llGetLinkNumber(), 0, "", NULL_KEY)

llGetLinkNumber() will obtain the link number of the prim the script resides in, so you essentually send link messages to itself.