Sequence of events

I am trying to create a sequence of events (texture change) on several prims in a specific order, looped - can someone point me in the right direction? I am not sure what to use or how to use it. Right now I have them all on a staggered timer (not talking to each other) and when I first reset all the scripts it works fabulous, but after about 3 loops it gets out of order again and they are all (seemingly) randomly changing.

ex.
Texture changes firing on the following prims starting at 1 and ending at 9 in sequential order and looped (think of a spiral or clock perhaps) and preferrably capable of being linked to a animated texture prim or other prims (which dont change texture)

Fire prims in order 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 -> 1 -> 2 ...etc

Are the prims linked together? If so, it should be much simpler to coordinate from a single script, using llSetLinkTexture(). If not, it will still be easier to coordinate the timing from a single script, but it'll have to send chat messages to listeners in the individual objects, telling them when to change texture.

I agree with Qie. One script that uses a timer to cycle thru the textures, sending a message for each change.

Then, another script in each prim that listens for its message and reacts to it.

llLinkMessage if the prims are all linked, and llSay(<someprivatechannel> otherwise

Take a stab at this, and we can help you debug.

Another apporach is to just put a timer in each script that syncs to the Wall clock, like this one...

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Each prim would have it's own special time to do whatever the action is.

Well this isnt accomplishing much more than the simple staggered timer I was using on each prim. Ideally yes I would like the whole object to be linked, but not all prims will have scripts in them.

This is what I am trying to fiddle with at the moment. I have really no idea what I am doing, I hammer stuff together and hope it works...

// Regular clock ticker.
// Set interval to some number of seconds
//
// Put a call to perfomr some actions in action().
//
// Object will perform action() every interval seconds. If there are more than
// one, they will work in synch.
//
// Lee Ponzu, no rights reserved


float interval = 2.0; //seconds between actions
float inv;
float acc = .01;

action()
{
integer number = llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_TEXTURE);
        float rand = llFrand(number);
        integer choice = (integer)rand;
        string name = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_TEXTURE,choice);
        if (name != "")
            llSetTexture(name, ALL_SIDES);
            llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | SMOOTH | LOOP, ALL_SIDES,1,1,1.0, 1,0.25);
// put the action that should be performed here


}

// Gets the number of milliseconds since midnight UTC.
// GetGMTmsclock() is by ...damn, can't find it. Thanks though.

integer GetGMTmsclock()
{
string stamp = llGetTimestamp();
return
(integer) llGetSubString(stamp, 11, 12) * 3600000 +
(integer) llGetSubString(stamp, 14, 15) * 60000 +
llRound((float) llGetSubString(stamp, 17, -2) * 1000.0);
}

float GetTime()
{
return GetGMTmsclock()*.001;
}


default
{
state_entry()
{
llOwnerSay( "Ready.");
llSetTimerEvent(interval);
inv=1.0/interval;
}
on_rez(integer n)
{
llOwnerSay("rezzing");
//tick = llGetTime();
}

touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llSay(0, "Spiral.");
llSleep(10);
}

timer()
{
float now = GetTime();
float count = now*inv;
// invariant is for count to be close to an integer, and
// delta to be zero

float delta = interval*(count - llRound(count));
if(llFabs(delta) > acc)
llSetTimerEvent( interval-delta );

// this is where the action would go...

action();

}
}