alternative to llWhisper ?

i'm using collision boxes in a maze, to give out portions of a song as the person walks through it ... my problem is, using "whisper" everyone in 10 meters can hear it and if of course keeps repeating as people walk thru. i need to get it into IMs, or a smaller radius? here's the script so far ...

default
{
state_entry()
{
llVolumeDetect(TRUE);
}
collision_start(integer num_detected) {
llWhisper(0, "top secret stuffs lalalala";
}
}

i tried llInstant Message but i don't know how to target it to the user. i copied n pasted from the SL wiki's example, and it didn't IM me.

please help?? BTW i am giving credits to everyone who's helped or contributed to this project, let me know if you want credit!

Try something like this:

default
{
state_entry()
{
llVolumeDetect(TRUE);
}
collision_start(integer num_detected) {
llInstantMessage(llDetectedKey(0), "top secret stuffs lalalala";
}
}

Watch out with instant messages. Using it delays the script by 2 seconds. This is LL's useless method of preventing abuse of the command from sending spam out of the world.

"llInstantMessage has a built-in delay of 2 seconds. "

You'd think LL could simply track how many messages are sent by an owned object rather than adding a pointless delay that can simply be worked around. It doesn't do anything to stop someone who wants to spam. It just makes scripting with it a little more painful.

thanks RJ, i tried that, and nothing happened. i waited, assuming for lag. made sure my communications window was open, all that. i wasn't set "busy."

any other ideas?

llOwnerSay is free (no script delay) and only the owner can hear it. One idea is to give each player something to wear. It can detect when it's near one of the trigger points and it can use llOwnerSay to tell the player stuff.

Try llInstantMessage again, and make sure you're getting it right. It works just fine (except for the 2 second delay).

BTW, I suspect that the reason for the delay is not to prevent spamming -- we can do that with llShout() but it has no delay -- and you can only llIM a single av at a time.

The reason for the delay is probably the same as for other functions that have delays: it's a relatively expensive operation in terms of system resources (e.g., sim CPU time, global servers), so they want to discourage it.

BTW, the IM will show up in the normal chat window.