Hovertext Countdown

[haruspero]

I am attempting to make an overhead timer on an object. It's supposed to work in that as soon as the object is rezzed, the timer will show how many seconds until the object is deleted. I've been able to get it to say the seconds in the chat, but I want it to show as hovertext. Is this possible?

[Mollymews]

instead of llSay use llSetText

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetText

[Rolig Loon]

2 hours ago, Mollymews said:

instead of llSay use llSetText

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetText

In a timer event. Update the text each time the timer triggers.

[Badena Atheria]

Rez a prim, put this script in, and touch it 

integer counter;

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        counter = 10; // chosen amount of living time in seconds
        llSetTimerEvent(1.0);  // setting timer to the interval of a second
    }
    
    timer()
    {
        --counter; // counter preceded by 2x minus dashes
        llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(0, [PRIM_TEXT, (string)counter + " sec", <1.0,1.0,1.0>, 1.0]); 
        {
            llOwnerSay("KABOOOOUMMMMMmmmm.....");
            llDie();
        }
    }
}
 

Edited April 12, 2020 by Badena

[Boopadoopdoop]

integer counter = 10;  // chosen amount of living time in seconds.
float CountDownSpeed = 1.0; // how fast to count down.
DoText(string output)
{
    llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS, [PRIM_TEXT, output, <1.0,1.0,1.0>, 1.0]); // set text based on output
}
DoPayload()
{
    llSleep(CountDownSpeed); // lol lazy sleep to keep the timing correct after it reaches zero
    DoText("KABOOM!!!!! lolzolz"); // send payload text to output.
    llResetScript(); //doing this instead of llDie for testing. lol
    //llDie();   
}
default
{
    state_entry() //Can remove state entry if not using llResetScript, just here for example.
    {
        llSleep(CountDownSpeed); // lol lazy sleep
        DoText(""); // blank out text   
    }
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llSetTimerEvent(CountDownSpeed);  // setting timer to the interval of a second
    }
    timer()
    {
        DoText((string)counter-- + " seconds"); // send count text to output.
    if(counter < 0)
    {
        DoPayload(); // do payload.
    }
    }
}