I learned a new attribute of the llParseString2List function today (the hard way):
When you use multiple separators, the order that the separators are listed in is important. If you want to parse a list of values like:
Squeebee Wakawaka, You User, My Friend
And also accomodate:
Squeebee Wakawaka,You User,My Friend
You need to add both “,” and “, ” […]
I’ve finished another article, this one on bringing an animated GIF into SL and showing it as an animated texture on a prim.
http://www.wakatech.com/articles/lsl-scripting-basics/bringing-an-animated-gif-into-second-life/
Enjoy!
I’ve added a new article on configuring scripts using notecards:
http://www.wakatech.com/articles/lsl-scripting-basics/configuring-lsl-scripts-using-a-notecard/
Hope you like it!
The WakaTech Tube-O-Rama is a fully automated system for bringing YouTube videos into Second Life automatically.
Users activate the Tube-O-Rama panels by paying a nominal fee (to cover server processor and storage costs), provide a YouTube URL, and the system does the rest. After a short delay while the video processes, it is then viewable in […]
When developing using states, don’t forget that the state_exit event can be used to perform cleanup instead of repeating cleanup tasks at each exit point from the state.
You can uses the state_exit to clear timers, shut off listens, reset globals, etc. While much of this cleans itself during the state change, things like timers persist […]
I’m sure this is obvious to most, but be careful when creating sensors. I found myself sitting around in my theater today getting dialogs from the other side of the island warning me to not abuse a sandbox.
And yes, plural dialogs, so the other lesson is to make sure if you are going to sensor […]
Ok, here’s what I want to produce sometime as a project. I want to create a script/anim combo where you feed it two lines you want to say. You make sure you are wearing sunglasses and have nothing attached to your hands. When you call the script with the two lines it triggers an animation […]
I’ve put my first article online, it is a bit on the beginner side but talks about how to create non-repeating random playlists using stacks.
See it at http://www.wakatech.com/articles/lsl-scripting-basics/creating-non-repeating-random-sequences-using-stacks/ and let me know what you think.
I hope to add several more articles over the next little while as I wrote down more of what I’ve come […]