Textures slow to load on revolving texture prim

[Rutherford Beresford]

I have four textures I want to alternate on side #4 of a prim... basically displaying the first texture for a second or so and moving to #2, then #3, and then #4, and then back to #1 over and over.  I basically just set up a script to do LLSetTexture using the UUID of the four textures and have them stacked one after the other in the script.  I tried to cut down "processing" resources as much as possible.  Initially, the textures take a minute or two to load, so I see a solid grey texture repeating over and over.  Eventually, all textures rez and they all display properly.  Then, after a little while, I get random gray "rezzing" textures again.

Is there some way to pre-load the textures or is there some better way of doing what I'm trying to do, or is this just something I have to put up with in SIMs that can be somewhat laggy?

Thank you!

Ford

[outtaspace]

try pre-loading the next texture in the sequence by rezzing it on the back of the prim where it is not visable.

ie.

texture 1 on side 4

texture 2 on side 1

..

texture 2 on side 4

texture 3 on side 1

 

[Nova Convair]

Arrange 5 textures of 512x512 on a 1024x1024 texture so all 4 are on one texture.Then use llSetTextureAnimation to switch through the sequence of the 4 textures.

Of course you can use smaller ones if you don't need that size.

 

[Rolig Loon]

One of the first LSL scripting challenges I tried years ago was a modification of the old Pre-Loading Slide Viewer that has since disappeared from the LSL wiki library.  I have changed it so many times since then that it only vaguely resembles the original.  I'll try to remember to post it here later today when I can get in world to grab a copy from my inventory.  Basically, though, it rotates each slide from its inventory from one blackened face of a cube to another until it finally appears on the one  face you have left un-blackened. By that time, it has been fully pre-loaded, so that it rezzes in perfect clarity.

[Rolig Loon]

I'm surprised to find that there's no copy of Sendao Goodman's original preloading slide viewer in the usual public script libraries in SL.  At least I couldn't find one today, so I have posted my own version of it in the LSL Scripting Library, here in the forums >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/LSL-Library/Preloading-Slide-Viewer/td-p/1723417