How to get rid of a particle?

[Pamela Galli]

I have a mesh centerpiece with particle candle flames. The location of the flames are controlled with a script, according to link # - but a fourth shows up in a mesh tassel where a flame does not belong.

 

I put a scrubber in the tassel and that seemed to work until re-rez or copy, then the errant flame appears.

 

I unlinked the tassel and put a scrubber in, the flame disappears -- but reappears when I relink it.

Is there any way to get this prim to stop thinking it is supposed to produce a flame?

[arton Rotaru]

Sounds like a script issue..

Usually I get link numbers by name in a loop function. It's independent of linking/unlinking this way. It will turn on/off any prim called "flame" in the linkset. The downside is, it will loop through the entire linkset each time.

 

integer giT;LinkNum(string _name, integer _on){    integer iP = llGetNumberOfPrims();    while(iP)    {        if (llGetLinkName(iP) == _name)        {            if (_on)            {                   FlameParticles(iP);            }            else             {                llLinkParticleSystem(iP, []);            }                        }        iP--;    }}default{    touch_start(integer total_number)    {        LinkNum("flame", giT = !giT);    }}

 

 

 

[Pamela Galli]

Thank you Arton -- I could not get it to work. It kept giving me an error saying something about name not defined, in line 11.  I tried putting in the name of the particle texture. I put the script in the root, not the affected prim.

Also all the mesh on this thing keeps going invisible, I think it just may be borked in the database.

[arton Rotaru]

Yeah, this is just an example script. The whole particle fuss and some access control and so on is missing there. If you would send me your particle code, I can put something functional together, if you like.

 

 

[Rolig Loon]

If particles are only generated in the candles, then you can safely turn off the ones in your tassel with a variation on Arton's theme.

default{    state_entry()    {        integer i = llGetNumberOfPrims();        while (i)        {            if (llGetLinkName(i) != "candle") // Or whatever your candle links are named ...            {                llLinkParticleSystem( i, []);            }            --i;        }    }}

That is ....  Look at every blessed link in the linkset.  If it's name is "candle", ignore it.  If not, turn off any particles you find.

[Pamela Galli]

Thanks Rolig! Will let you know how it turns out :-)