Deleting Smoke

I have a noobish like question. My neighbor had built a home on their lot when the structure became unlinked. He deleted everything prim by prim and rebuilt a home in its place when he realized a plume of smoke from the previous structure remained. Neither he nor I can select the smoke to return it to inventory or delete it. I believe I figured out a way to solve this problem before but I can remember how I did it. Maybe I simply returned everything on the lot, but can't in this case because he spent a lot of time placing his new house. Frustratingly, the plume won't even highlight. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Turn on View Transparent (control alt T) or find it in the View drop down menu. When you do that, you should be able to locate the hidden prim that the smoke is coming from.

just to add to this, i made a small waterfall over the weekend and noticed that if i deleted a particle script from a prim the particle would keep running till i actually deleted the prim, is there anyway of getting the particle to stop without deleting the prim?

-Crunch

default
{
state_entry()
{
llParticleSystem([]);
llRemoveInventory(llGetScriptName());
}
}



You can create a script in your inventory by going into the create tab. Select create new script. Copy paste the above script into your new script. Then, drop the script into the contents tab of the offending prim which is emitting particles. The offending prim will have a particle script in it.

This script kills the particles script and then deletes itself.

sometimes i wish the scrubber script came wih the library stuff

excelent thanks gaybot

-Crunch

Thank you but I can't seem to select the prim that is emitting the smoke. When I use the "about land" then "object" menu I can see the hidden prim the smoke seems to be coming from but I cannot select it.

May want to try selecting it by dragging a selection box around it. Control-3 to open the Editor, then just drag around the thing till it's highlighted (I think this is enabled by default, but there's an option, I think on the Tools menu, if select-by-dragging somehow got turned off). And as suggested, it's best if Control-Alt-T has transparent things highlighted while trying this.

Thanks Qie, Gaybot, everyone! That did it.