[Preloader for particles]

Thank you all for your valuable suggestions, I'll try to figure out why I get to see blank grey  particles instead of my images

 

Luca

 

Edited for typo

[Preloader for particles]

is there a way to preload the images used in particles?

I tried using a bogus particlesystem (as invisible as possible) for preloading

• using scaled down particles (PSYS_PART_START_SCALE set to 0.01, same for the STOP),
• using transparent particles (PSYS_PART_START_ALPHA = 0, STOP = 0.01)
• using a small radius (PSYS_SRC_BURST_RADIUS - so they aren't that obvious)

All those seem to have no effect on the visibility of the texture and will create clientside lag :-(

When I have a prim textured with the same images in the field of view the particles are visible well from the beginning. I tried to avoid that prim though...

[Posting to webserver]

Hello XbabylonX,

the PHP code above is platform independent, so it is of no concern what OS you're using ;-) And yes, it is a way to restrict access to your PHP script to computers out of the secondlife.com domain.

 

Good luck and have fun :-)

[Block a Picture?]

Some viewers have the capability to omit objects in the rendering of the scene. Firestorm does it via :

right mouse click on the object - derender

et voila: the object is gone ;-)

I hope that helps you a bit :-)

[Some of SL's oldest photos by Hikaru Yamamoto]

Please don't stop showing your pictures, I'm enjoying then very much. Thank you for sharing the memories :-)

[llInstantMessage syntax]

As far as I understand the syntax description in the wiki (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlInstantMessage/de)

llInstantMessage(key user, string message)

the function expects the key instead of the name of the avatar. So just replace

llInstantMessage(llKey2Name(av),"Thank you for sitting down");

with

llInstantMessage( av, "Thank you for sitting down");

and you should be fine ...

 

(Edited typo and added link to the wiki page)

[HUD Script making help]

That can be an interesting little project. I can imagine how some parts of it could be done. But depending on the level of detail and accuratesse you desire it can grow into a real challenge. But I'm no great scripter too - maybe someone knows of an easier way of archiving this than me.

[HUD Script making help]

In addition to the hud you'll need the animations for your character. Are those ready made ones? If so you might want to take a deep breath and dive into the famous ZHAO-script. That's an opensource AO available as a freebie all over SL that might well do most of the things you might need. But remember to breathe calmly while dealing with it ^^ Some other ressources I mentioned in your other thread...

Have fun ;-)

[How to make a HUD?]

This question seems to come up more often lately ;-) My best ressources are:

http://secondview.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/scripting-snippets-7-creating-a-hud/

and

http://secondview.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/script-snippets-8-text-output-for-a-hud/

and of course the official one:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Creating_HUDs

But you'll soon notice this topic is for scripters and designers. Good scripts without a good user interface doesn't appeal well and vice versa it's even worse ;-)

 

Have fun and good luck

[Linden help?]

You can have a look at virwox which offers you a wide range of possibilities to pay for your L$. But be aware that some methods have rather substantial fees tacked to them :-/

https://www.virwox.com/index.php

Have fun :-)

[Creating a HUD?]

I can recommend having a look at

http://secondview.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/scripting-snippets-7-creating-a-hud/

and

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Creating_HUDs

Both helped me a lot :-)

[extra meepet wanted]

That might be the reason the OP looks for a meepet - those are not eating actual food costing L$ but honey instead which is available for free. So the only thing the OP needs is a stump and a place to rezz it and the bowl of honey for the meepet.

 

[How to apply skin texture to a prim I created?]

Funny, I just tested two random human avatars from the library and both included a skin. It's not a texture per se though - it is a special item like clothings, just intended for the skin layer of the avatar. You cannot view it as a texture and download it. If you edit a skin you'll see it is composed of three textures which are displayed en miniature above the sliders.

[How to apply skin texture to a prim I created?]

A skin is a texture and has no underlying color you could possibly pickup with the color picker. If you want to put the same color as the skin on the prim, there's a setting in the developer menu: show info - color under cursor ( I guess - I'm not inworld as of now). But that would apply the same color to the whole prim whereas a natural looking skin would have a bit of structure and shading.

Maybe you could do what you want to with one of the free skin templates:

http://www.vintfalken.com/free-full-perm-female-skin-textures/

I hope that helps a bit - good luck with your project :-)

[Scripting sculpted hands.....?]

Hi,

I think you can handle that with calls to llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast and related LSL-functions (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast). This function can change the sculptmaps of the hand and fingers and thus display an animated hand...

It looks like a lot of work, but have fun with it ;-)

[How do I link separate HUDS and make them into one HUD?]

Another good source of information and inspiration for me was the tutorial at:

http://secondview.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/scripting-snippets-7-creating-a-hud/

and

http://secondview.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/script-snippets-8-text-output-for-a-hud/

Have fun ;-)

[texturing different linknumbers/faces]

As llSetTexture() doesn't provide for a prim-number I'ld like to mention the function llSetLinkTexture where the link number would be the prim number as of Roligs beautiful example. That's what makes 

...

// Do something to face #face on prim #prim

...

actually happen...

[Editing a Sergal skin?]

You might also consider creating a tatoo-layer for your avatar if the modifications wanted are more like additional marks on the skin. That way your modifications won't need access to the original skin textures.

[rezzer packager wanted]

Maybe the "Builders Buddy" would be right for you then. The scripts are open source and GPL licensed so there is no real problem exporting them to any grid. Some grids are using different dialects of the LSL script language though. Maybe you should ask for support at your target grid too...

 

The Builders Buddy is available at the Builders Brewery in the Freebie section

[Intan Dance Ball Critisism]

At least for the last part there's a remedy: you can use the Filter (main menu - tools) to select specific dance categories if you (or the creator of the notecard) added proper tags. Thus you can even have individually selected categories of your own ;-)

 

Have fun

[Problem deleting a bunch of objects with unknown locations]

1) If the objects contain scripts you can use "Land Info - Scriptinfo" to display the locations of the objects.

 

2) TPVs often have a feature called environment search. If you use i.e. FS you can find it under "World - Environment Search" (or something like that - I'm on a german language system...). There you can put in the name of the object et voila a list of all your objects appear... You can double click on an entry to get a beacon.

[how to make a touch to change sculpt script]

The script works for me (mostly). I just added a touch_start() to handle the shape change due to touch-events.

integer numsculpts;integer sculptindex = -1;default{    state_entry()    {        numsculpts = llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_TEXTURE);        llSetTimerEvent( 5 );    }    touch_start(integer num_detected)    {        sculptindex++;        if(sculptindex >= numsculpts)         {            sculptindex = 0;        }        llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_TYPE, PRIM_TYPE_SCULPT, llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_TEXTURE, sculptindex),  PRIM_SCULPT_TYPE_SPHERE]);        llSetTimerEvent( 5 );    }    timer()    {        sculptindex++;        if(sculptindex >= numsculpts)         {            sculptindex = 0;        }        llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_TYPE, PRIM_TYPE_SCULPT, llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_TEXTURE, sculptindex), PRIM_SCULPT_TYPE_SPHERE]);    }}

 I kept the coding to your style ;-)

 

Rezz a box, throw in two sculpt maps (I took the banana and the apple from the library), create a new script and replace the dummy-script by the above. After saving you can watch the object alternate between the two shapes every 5 seconds and every time you touch it. I hope, that helps...

 

Have fun :-)

 

Edit: hehe - beaten by seconds - I write too much ;-)

[Maths Help :(]

It should help if you work with floats:

 

touch_start(integer total_number) { float percent = 10.0; float amount = 100.0; float new_amount = (100.0 + 10.0) / 100.0 * amount; llOwnerSay((string)new_amount); }

 

Doing math with integers can be tricky as LSL - as a lot of languages do - treat the expression (100 + 10) / 100 as an integer division thus discarding the remainder ^^

 

Have a lot of fun!

[Proper Vending Machine script]

Hi there,

 

you could also visit a class at the NCI: "Scripting a low lag vendor" on monday 10:00am. Seems the right thing for your purpose - or search the LSL-library for a free LSL vendor script. Google comes up with:

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=LibraryVendor

 

Have fun

[Simple furry building kit.]

Hi Aeriq,

 

you could try a peek at the script library: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/LSL-Library/Neko-Tail-Script/td-p/1329311

or at marketplace. There are several Neko-scripts availlable. Have fun!