Prim owner scanner?

I was wondering if there is such a thing as what I'm about to describe...

First the scenario...

I have a former builder/scripts on our group land whom I have reason to suspect of implanting spying scripts into their prims which are still on site. We're talking about 20 prims in a whole sim....and they could be anywhere or any size (including microprims).

What I want to do is find each and every one of those 20 prims in the sim...now I know I could just return all the prims she owns but that would give the game away and I also want to see if there are any scripts in those prims rather than just doing it blindly.

Now the question...

Is there a gadget or script that would save me the hassle of examining each and every prim in turn to see who owns it? Ideally it would be a bot which you tell to look for prims owned by avatar name/key and then it scans the whole sim and returns with some coordinates. Failing that, I don't mind having a bot which tags along behind you as you travel around and which indicates in some way that a target prim is close.

I have some gadgets (like Force Prophecies) which can identify the names of the closest 16 (?) prims but I'm not sure it does owner names and it certainly doesn't automate to the degree where searching a sim is easy.

Any suggestions?

If this is estate land, the estate owner can view what scripts are running on land. If its mainland, I do not have an answer, however I will watch the thread in case there is a solution, as it could come in handy for quite a few reasons.

Definitely do-able. There must be such a product already that fully automates the scan, but I've always just scripted something up as-needed and worn it as an attachment while I scampered around looking for the lost whatzits, so I'm a poor source of product info.

A couple things to keep in mind: the sensor logic really is limited to the nearest 16 results within 96m of a scan. One can limit the kinds of things it's looking for (like, say, only scripted objects) and thus get up to the nearest 16 scripted objects without the noise of all the unscripted ones. But for this application, you probably want the sensor to see the unscripted ones, too, so you can be sure it's found all 20 of the suspect prims, and then see if they're scripted or not.

Unfortunately sensors can't pre-filter for only the objects owned by a particular user, but a script can easily screen from the results those owned by somebody else. The problem is that the sensor still only sees the nearest 16 owned by anybody, so the search pattern may have to be *much* tighter than that 96m range to be sure there's not a target object hidden by 16 nearer ones. (I can imagine ways for an automated scanner to get around that problem, but it's non-trivial in the general case--imagine one tiny object in a tight shell of a few hundred other tiny objects.)

Also, just FYI, one could post-filter the sensor results not only by owner, but also by creator.

Having said all that... you might get lucky just trying to highlight the objects owned by one avatar, using the About Land / Objects tab ("Refresh List" to get all the owners, then choose and see what gets highlighted with a white surround). This is even harder than it sounds, though. For one thing, you must be at least near enough to the object that it would rez for you to see (not suppressed by distance Level of Detail).

(Oh, finally, a tiny terminology thing: "bots" are something altogether different from scripts. Bots are automated clients, so they're avatars in-world, not objects.)

Doesnt Scan-Foo do this stuff?


Look for Crystalshard Foo and go to her store.

Thanks for the great replies

It is mainland I'm afraid, and yes, the objects are likely to be hidden in areas with hundreds of other prims close by (as the sim has tight builds with a lot of free air between them), which makes manual scanning difficult.

I'll try the highlight objects method once again to see if it works a second time around, failing that I'll take a look at the scan-foo.

I'll let you know if it works

Yes it does, you can scan for scripted objects owned by a specific user.