[Prim targeting a prim (game idea)]

Hehe.  I guess I should have prefaced my question with the fact that my game is more of a strategy game than action.  It's really about what prims you rezz rather than what you actually do with them (if that makes any sense).

 

 

[Prim targeting a prim (game idea)]

The prims would not be physical.  Basically they would sit there and fire at whatever they are told to fire upon like a tower of defense.  I think 'marking' the targets is really what I want. 

 

Maybe rezzing a red glow around each target to indicate it's been targeted. 

 

 

[Prim targeting a prim (game idea)]

Maybe I should require the player to manually assign targets instead of using sensors?

[Prim targeting a prim (game idea)]

Because each player has several of these prims I was thinking about making a 'targeting' prim that basically makes a lists and divvies out the targets to the other attacking prims.  So if each player had 10 prims, only 1 would be running a sensor. 

 

 

[Prim targeting a prim (game idea)]

So if I had one prim that needed to target another prim owned by an opponent.  And that opponent has multiple targets rezzed.  I want my prim to pick one within 20m to lock on and cause a hitpoint variable to decrease.  I want my prim to 'lock on' that other prim and send damage messages until the opponent prim has 0 hitpoints then scan for more opponent prims - rinse and repeat.

 

So would each object need to be listening for messages within a range, build a list and choose the prim at the top of the list as a target?  Is there a way to do this without destroying performance of the sim if say each player has 5 or more of these prims.

 

Can someone give me an idea of what functions I would need to research?

 

I guess my question is how can one prim create a private communication between another prim owned by someone else and keep that conversation until a condition is met (being the prim being out of health points).

 

I hope that makes sense.

 

 

 

 

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