llRegionSay

void llRegionSay(integer Channel, string Text)

Broadcasts Text to entire region on Channel (except for channel 0).

Parameters

Channel (integer): Any integer value except zero.
Text (string): Message to be transmitted.

Technical Details

Return Type: void
Energy: 10

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llRegionSay(25,"This is an incredibly useless program." );
    }
}

Caveats

This function cannot transmit on channel 0; this is a design feature and not a bug.
If the message is longer than 1024 characters, it is truncated to 1024 characters. (Note that in Mono, each character occupies 2 memory bytes).
A prim cannot hear itself, which prevents recursion problems. However, it can hear other prims within the same object. Use llMessageLinked instead for intra-prim messaging.

Notes

To avoid making your object spam its neighborhood, use llOwnerSay or llInstantMessage instead.

When one object communicates with another object (e.g., a button that turns on a lamp), consider using a negative channel number, such as -5243212. Using negative channels for script communications has been a common practice because, prior to September 2016, the standard SL client was unable to chat on negative channels. Since 2016, viewers have been able to chat on negative channels with messages capped to 254 bytes.

If DEBUG_CHANNEL is used as the channel parameter, the script will display the message in the Script Warning/Error window. As of version 1.18.3, using llRegionSay on the DEBUG_CHANNEL will wrap around and display on channel 0 with a range of 100m.

If you want two objects owned by the same person to communicate within a SIM, you can compute the channel based on the owner UUID:

gChannel = 0x80000000 | (integer) ( "0x" + (string) llGetOwner() );

llRegionSay

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