[Script] Any way to create flickering, dynamic light sources?

As the description says. I never made a script on roll20 myself, got no real experience with java, but programmed in C++/C#  But before i sink a lot of hours into something that might not work to begin with, might not be advisable in terms of ressource usage or is already available somewhere. I wanted to shout out if anyone knows if it works, if it is advisable or perhaps if there is something already existing that might fill my needs.

The Aaron's ' Torch ' script can produce flickering light sources I believe, he based his addition of that to the torch script on Jack Taylor's  Flickering Lights Script .

I gonna try this out right away. Thanks Ziechael!

You're correct on both counts.  The commands are: !flicker-on !flicker-off

Should my players be able to that function?  Aslo, if I use the API does it override the settings on the token?

Players should be able to use those commands.  There are additional arguments to !flicker-on that are the same as !torch.  !flicker-on does not change the settings of the token.  It creates a transparent token beneath the token that moves about randomly beneath it (within some minor threshold), and follows the token when it moves.

Here is the original post:&nbsp;<a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1104897/script-torch-a-simple-script-for-giving-lights-to-tokens-and-turning-off-and-on-dynamic-lighting" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1104897/script-torch-a-simple-script-for-giving-lights-to-tokens-and-turning-off-and-on-dynamic-lighting</a>

Hey Aaron. Can you give me some straight macro code for torch? I try to utilize your syntax, but i get errors all the time. (this and that expected, but that found error).&nbsp; both !flicker-on [20 [ 10 [yes [@{target|Target 1|token_id}|--360 ... ]]]] and !flicker-on [20 [ 10 [yes [@{target|Target 1|token_id}|360 ... ]]]] give me: SyntaxError: Expected "(", ".", "[", "abs(", "ceil(", "d", "floor(", "round(", "t", "{", [ |\t], [+|\-] or [0-9] but "l" found. or SyntaxError: Expected "(", ".", "[", "abs(", "ceil(", "d", "floor(", "round(", "t", "{", [ |\t], [+|\-] or [0-9] but "o" found. Thanks!

Hey Kalle, don't use inline rolls for everything, try this: !flicker-on 20 10 yes @{target|Target 1|token_id} You shouldn't need the --360. This is my torch macro that I made for my game: !flicker-on ?{Radius|40} ?{Dim Start|20} on @{target|token_id} And my darkvision/constant light sources macro: !torch ?{Radius|60} ?{Dim Start|60} ?{Visibile?|off|on} @{target|token_id} Let's me choose what sort of light source I'm making each time.

Thanks Scott! Now we all need to wonder why he put those inline dividers in there in the first place in the examples, when they are not necessary. To me, these looked like necessary to the syntax in the example.

Hmm, didn't notice any dividers in his syntax examples. He's got brackets around the argument descriptors to show that they need to be one argument even though the description is two words (I think)

I copy pasted his example in my macro and replaced the &lt;&gt; stuff with values as described in his documentation. so yeah.

I can't find a better reference from my phone, but basically I try to use standard command line syntax in the help:&nbsp; <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc7710" rel="nofollow">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc7710</a>... [ ] surrounds optional arguments. If an optional argument can be followed by another optional argument, you get nesting: [ optional [optional]], etc Sorry for the confusion, I'm working on a help system this will be easier to understand, out sometime after summer.&nbsp;