Poofer help

Im making a poofer, that supose to do particles right before you teleport/log out (like i see others do) problem is, I can't find the function that is called right before a person logs out/teleports... I need it to do particles at that point... I tried putting the code in on rez and changed but still does nothing when I teleport like it supose to. I seen tons other poofers do it, so I know its possible somehow.
im guessing it scans its own state or something , and knows whens your in the process of logging out/teleporting and does the particles..
Thx for any help you can provide

surely you're not referring to the circle of poofs that you see when someone chats or TP's? Because that's an SL default. I've never seen anyone with a unique particle poof on TP/logout, but it's easily doable - manually. Just have it listen for you to say "poof" maybe on a private channel. Then, when you're ready to log out, type the command and quickly log out.

attached is triggered every time you log in or teleport into a new sim.

hmm, i *think* that if a particle system is called, then the particle system is still 'active' - kind of a bug i think, but it's been around since.... uhhh 1.2 i think. The "pfft" script i made simply calls a particle system in a listen command (chat "pfft" and you get an explosion of the word pfft) - yet anytime i teleport or go into a different sim, the particles release.

The way to FIX that, is to call an empty listed particle system in the state entry/on rez event handlers (llParticleSystem([]));

So I *feel* as though it's an unfixed bug for it to continue raising particle systems even though it shouldn't be calling that function. Leak perhaps?

Anyway, if you want to achieve that effect, make a particle system, just put it in state entry. walk around, teleport. Don't close out the particle system though.

Hope that helps.

--Water

well, i retract the last post i just made. It seems like it doesn't do that anymore after i messed with it a little bit, so yeah.... just use the attach event handler (and it will work if you are teleported into the same sim as well)

default{
    state_entry(){
        updateParticles();
    }
    
    attach( key k ){
        updateParticles();
    }
}

*this is assuming you are using Ama's particle example*

The effect the OP is talking about is a rather cool one I've seen occasionally in world.

It seems to be triggered automatically whenever someone teleports AWAY from a location (i.e. disappears). They seem to leave behind either a particle system, or a few glowing temp prims, or something of that nature. I was thinking about making something similar for my AV, but I could never think of a cool unique effect, then my account got shut down (lack of funds).

Except for triggering the effect by hand just before you teleport away or log out, I can only think of one other way to vansigh with a poof of smoke, and it would be a "bad" script.

EDIT: typo

lollies... the UK'ers must be laughing

That's similar to a UK'er saying that he's making a fag.

- Ace

Making a cigarrette?

Trying to Copy My teleport Poof Particles eh??

Just go buy one.

Hehe,

DNA

Yours? They were around long before you were.

Re-inventing the wheel can be a fun exercise from time to time though.

Has no one figured this out yet? It can't be that complicated a trick heh, I'm tinkering now, if I find a solution I will post here, though I'm not going to claim to outsmart this long running trick.

I don't know what might trigger a particle system before you tp, but when you arrive, presumably you use

change(integer change)
{ 
    if (change & CHANGED_TELEPORT)
{
  //call a particle system with a short PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE
}
}

Or does that start to fire when the tp starts (or thinks it starts)? If it does, that's presumably how you get the particles at the start of the tp. Or do you start to hover when you begin a tp? I know when tps fail, i often end up hovering there (or having fallen through the floor).

Aye, when you tp IN is easy, the question for this thread is somehow triggering a poof automatically before TPing out, though technically this would seem impossible without SL building in LSL triggers for the initializing TP, though with the major changes to TP methods, I imagine current methods are impossible unless you can somehow have the object handle all TPs, which just isn't pheasible aside from it handling remembering various spots etc. I was just wondering if someone had figured this out, I know friends who had poofers that triggered on exits, but I haven't seen any in awhile.

One way to do it, I suppose, though it wouldn't for obvious reasons work at all times and at all places, would be to have your poofer, when you arrive somewhere, not only poof a burst of particles but also rez a small invisible follower that follows you round the sim.

At the no_sensor event -- i.e. you've tp'd off or logged out -- the follower releases a farewell burst of particles and then dies. That's all I can come up with.

the script is available on the forums for the taking, just search.

PS followers work for this too, but require build and script enabled land

Hmm... An admittedly quick search of the forums (this one, at least) suggests that it used to be possible to trigger particles on TPing out of somewhere by having the attachment detect it was being saved back to the database. But a change in the way TPs work some time ago broke this -- attachments don't any more get saved back and re-rezzed each time you tp -- so followers are the only way people can think of to make this effect work on TP (though presumably the old method still works when you log out).

Are you saying there's still a way for an attachment to detect you're about to TP?

hello..
i think i saw one in the script library inworld..
happy hunting