Turret Script

[DarkEmperor13]

I need some help. I'm trying to make a turret that when senses a player, it points at them. I got the whole rotation thing down. 

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        
        llSensorRepeat("", NULL_KEY, AGENT, 15.0, PI, 0.2);
        llSetLinkColor(LINK_THIS, <0,1,0>, ALL_SIDES);
       
    }

    sensor(integer num_detected)
        {
            llSetLinkColor(LINK_THIS, <1,0,0>, ALL_SIDES);
        }
    
    no_sensor()
    {
        llResetScript(); 
    }
}

See, I also have a part of the turret that changes between red and greem. Green = Anonymous/Passive & Red = Detected/Hostile. I got the turn red when detected player worked out, but I cant seem to make it go back to green when a player leaves its detection field.

[Qie Niangao]

The logic as written will turn the object red if it senses any avatar within 15 meters, so you cannot test this up close because your own avatar will set it off.

If you go more than 15m from the object and there's nobody else around, it turns green again. I tested and that works, by the way.

Incidentally, running that sensor five times a second (the 0.2 argument) is way too fast to be a responsible use of sim resources. No turret has ever been worth that kind of lag effect on other scripts.

[Miranda Umino]

why to reset script at the event no_sensor ?

[DarkEmperor13]

well I was going to change it. I just wanted to make sure it works. Now is there a way to exclude the owner?

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

Inside the sensor event you will have 0 to num_found -1 detected agents, so step through the loop using an index >= 0 && < num_found, and ignore llDetectedKey(index) == owner. (Assume you have already set owner by llGetOwner to save repeated calls in the loop)

 

I'd post more but a cat is biting my leg to show he's starving.

[Mollymews]

7 hours ago, DarkEmperor13 said:

well I was going to change it. I just wanted to make sure it works. Now is there a way to exclude the owner?

it is as Prof says. In the sensor event we check for owner and that the owner is the only avatar picked up by the sensor. Example:

sensor (integer num_detected)
{
   integer isOwnerOnly = (num_detected == 1) && (llDetectedKey(0) == llGetOwner());
   if (!isOwnerOnly)
   {
       llSetLinkColor(LINK_THIS, <1,0,0>, ALL_SIDES);
   }
}