Getting an animation to change script action

Hi, I am completly new to scripting, and dont have the foggiest idea as to what I am doing. Anyways, I created some claws that go on my hands and I made an animation for extending claw effect. I want the claws to be invisible on my avatar untill I play my animation and stay there until I play a diffrent animation that would be for retracting the claws. Can anyone help me make a script that could do that or is that even possible. Thanks

You can add a script to the claws. They start out invisible. They listen for a command in chat from you, such as

/1 claw

When they hear this, the become visible, play the clawing animations...

At this point, they could either retract (invisible again) or wait for you to type some command like

/1 retract

This is an easy script. I am willing to help for free, since it is educational for me. Can't promise when I'd do it though.

That would be great. I dont even know where to begin with this.

try something like this

integer channel = 1;

ShowHide(integer Show)
{
    if(Show == 1)    
    {
         llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES);
         llSetStatus (STATUS_PHANTOM, FALSE);
    }
    else
    {
         llSetAlpha(0,ALL_SIDES);
         llSetStatus (STATUS_PHANTOM, TRUE);
    }
}

default 
{ 
        state_entry() 
        { 
            llListen(channel,"",llGetOwner(),""); //only owner can change it. 
         } 
        listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string message) 
        { 
             if("claws" == message)ShowHide(0);
             else if("retract" == message) ShowHide(1);
        } 
} 

The script could also trigger the animation and play a sound etc.

if("claws" == message)Show(0);
else if("retract" == message) Show(1);


I think it should be ShowHide()

OOOPS, you're right. Serves me right for tidying up.