My Tardis needs help :)

[Sari6t]

Hi there

I'm a 5 day LSL scripting professional...lol,  Anyway I've cobbled together loads of nifty things for a super ambitious project ...TARDIS...and nearly have the materialization thing working. 

Here is where I am stuck ,or not sure about. What I have duct taped together works well enough....once. What I mean is I can say on a channel "/77 show" and it fades and glow and appears with a working timer and all that. Yay!

But.. the second time it gets stuck in a loop of appearing, its like the timer().. llSetTimerEvent isn't stopping. I used a counter that seems to work fine the first time but not after that. I have to manually reset to stop it. I've tried llResetScript() but so far it just kills the timer counter totally. Not sure where its wrong. I'll post the code for it and keep banging away.

Thanks in advance :)

 

integer count;  // Count function
integer channel = 77;    // channel number
string showcmd="SHOW";    // show command - use uppercase only
string hidecmd="HIDE";    // hide command - use uppercase only

integer links = LINK_SET;

 // This is the show and hide that I need but don't know how to use properly
 show() {
         
    }



hide() {
        
      
    }

default
{

     state_entry()
            {
      
                llListen(channel, "", NULL_KEY, ""); // Listen on a channel
                llSetTimerEvent(0.0);
            }

    // Listen on the channel given at the top and do things
        listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message) 
        {
            string m=llToUpper(llStringTrim(message,STRING_TRIM));
            if (m==showcmd)
             {
                show();
                     llSetTimerEvent(0.1); // Wont work without it so far
                 
                
            } else if (m==hidecmd)
            {
              
                hide();    
                
               
           }

        }

    // Makes wonderful glow and fade of the prim over a set number of seconds. 
    timer()
    {
    
        float glow = 0.0;
        while(glow < 0.5) {
            
                 glow+=0.01;  
                llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS,[PRIM_GLOW, ALL_SIDES, glow]);
                llSleep(0.01);
                }
            
                 glow = 0.5;
            
        while(glow > 0.1)
                {
                    glow-=0.01;  
                    llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS,[PRIM_GLOW, ALL_SIDES, glow]);
                    llSleep(0.01);
                }
 // Swapping the fade in and out does what I want in that it reversed the effect.       
       // fade out
        float alpha = 1.0;
        while (alpha >= 0.0)
        {
            llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET, alpha, ALL_SIDES);
            alpha -= 0.001;
        }
      
        
        // fade in
        while (alpha < 1.0)
        {
            alpha += 0.001;
            llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET, alpha, ALL_SIDES);
        }
     
     // Down here we have some Prim Params again cause more is better??       
       llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS,[PRIM_GLOW, ALL_SIDES, 0.0]);
         
         llSetTimerEvent(0.1);
         ++count;  // Start Counting
           if(count == 3) // this is the timer that might cycle this for me
           llSetTimerEvent(0.0);   // Kill the Event at the set time
           
          
    
        }



}

 

[Rolig Loon]

That's mostly because your counter is never reset.  It starts at zero, and then stops at 3. The next time it starts at 3 and never stops.  Your told to stop only when count == 3. 

[Sari6t]

Ok thanks,

 

So llSetTimerEvent(0.0); doesn't reset it  . So I need to figure out how to reset it to 0 after counting to 3. 

 

Ok cool thanks

[Rolig Loon]

No, llSetTimerEvent(0.0)  stops the timer.   You want to reset Count.  To do that, you need to set Count = 0 at a logical place in the script.

[Sari6t]

Got it, thanks

 

[Rolig Loon]

Yay team! :smileyvery-happy: