Materialization Effects

Description

This script is useful code to implement rezzing events where you want the items rezzed to exhibit science fictiony teleportation or materialization effects. It starts off with alpha (transparency) being set to 0.0 (fully transparent) with glow at 1.00 (full glow), and transitions over 20 steps to zero transparency and 10% glow (you can modify the final glow by setting the glow value inside the "if" statement to 0.0, and the stepping value from 0.045 to 0.05, if you want it to have zero final glow).

Script

// Materialization Script 1.0 by Overbrain Unplugged
// This script is placed under MIT X11 Open Source License
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float time = 0.01;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetLinkPrimitiveParams(LINK_SET,[PRIM_GLOW,ALL_SIDES,1.0]);
        llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET,0.0,ALL_SIDES);
        llSetTimerEvent(time);
        
    }

    on_rez(integer parameters)
    {
        llSetLinkPrimitiveParams(LINK_SET,[PRIM_GLOW,ALL_SIDES,1.0]);
        llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET,0.0,ALL_SIDES);
        llSetTimerEvent(time);
        
    }

    
    timer()
    {
        
        float alpha=llGetAlpha(0);
        
        list params = llGetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_GLOW,0]);
        float glow = llList2Float(params, 0);
        //This next line you can uncomment to use for testing purposes to view the alpha and glow values during each step.
        //llOwnerSay("Glow = " + (string)glow + "Alpha = " + (string)alpha);
        llSetLinkPrimitiveParams(LINK_SET,[PRIM_GLOW,ALL_SIDES,glow-0.045]);
        llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET,alpha + 0.05,ALL_SIDES); 
        if (alpha >= 1.0)
        {
           llSetTimerEvent(0.0);
           llSetLinkPrimitiveParams(LINK_SET,[PRIM_GLOW,ALL_SIDES,0.1]);
           llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET,1.0,ALL_SIDES);
        }  
    }

    
}