Second Life Physics Scripting - Pinball #19 - Puck Flipper Mechanic

Since the flipper mechanic just wasn't going to work I've decided for a bar at the bottom of the table where you can move what area is currently active. Sort of like pong, but more primitive. I'm hoping that people will identify with it as a puck because it's attached to a pinball machine. I wanted to use a changing texture on a single primitive to increase the speed changes since there aren't the same delays for texture changes as there are for position and rotation. This is some quick temporary art I came up with as the texture.



The image is split into four positions that will bounce the ball if it hits in the current position. I offset a little into the other colors to make it a little easier and allow for you to hit things that were right on the borders of the colors.

I'm sliding this around on a cube face much like I did the number texture. There was nothing fancy when figuring out the offsets. Hit and miss and tweaking the u/v numbers on the texture editing. I did only apply this texture to a single side of a rectangular cube. You do that by toggling the "select texture" radio button on the editor. Here is the script that changes which color is currently active.

    // texture offsets
    // h = 0;
    // v =
    // 0.375 (red=1)
    // 0.125 (blue=2)
    // -0.125 (green = 3)
    // -0.375 (yellow = 4)
integer curval = 1;
doOffset()
{
        //llOwnerSay("offset ="+(string)ftmp);
        if (curval<0)
        {
            curval = 3;
        }
        else if (curval>3)
        {
            curval = 0;
        }
        float foffset = 0.375;
        if (curval == 1)
        {
            foffset = 0.125;
        }
        else if (curval == 2)
        {
            foffset = -0.125;
        }
        else if (curval == 3)
        {
            foffset = -0.375;
        }
        llOffsetTexture(0.0,foffset,ALL_SIDES);
}

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        doOffset();
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        curval++;
        doOffset();
    }
}