No mod textures on mod prims?

Is it possible to make a texture no mod, while keeping the prim itself moddable, so people can stretch/resize it?

Asking, because I would like to avoid people accidentally retexturing my products. (=

Thanks in advance!

Even if you made the texture itself no-mod, it wouldn't stop anyone from retexturing any modable prims that happen to have that texture already on them. Remember, when you "apply" a texture to a prim surface, the prim doesn't get the actual texture put onto it. What it gets is a small database link that says "display this asset along with that one". When you retexture the prim, you simply break that link and create a new one. The actual original texture file itself, the asset, never changes.

What you're really asking for is a far more robust permissions system. Right now, it's either all or nothing. An object is either modable or it's not. You don't get to dictate which parameter fields are changeable and which aren't.

You could somewhat fudge it, though, via scripting. You could rig up a system whereby the user can change certain parameters via text command (or something more elaborate if you choose), while the object itself is actually no-mod. You'd of course have to include instructions so the user knows what to do, which right away would somewhat limit your customer base (not everyone is that smart or that patient), but it's definitely doabe. It would just be a lot of work to set up initially, and likely a lot of customer service hassle down the road, as a certain percentage of people would inevitably be confused, no matter how well written your instructions are.

You could create a script that re-applies all the textures the way you want them.

Or just tell the user "rez a new one" if they break it.

By coincidence, I just needed exactly that solution this past week. I was building an object that incorporates a display panel that I wanted to allow the object's owner to change at will, but I didn't want the owner to mess up the object itself. I grabbed a simple script off the Scripting Library and modified it. Here it is:

//Listening Texturer script by Aldar Rayner
//Modified by Rolig Loon
default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		llListen(0,"",llGetOwner(),"");
	}
	on_rez(integer start_param)
	{
		llResetScript();
	}
	
	listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string msg)
	{
		list parsed = llParseString2List(msg,[" "],[]);
		string text = llList2String(parsed,0);
		string texture = llList2String(parsed,1);
		if (texture == "")
		{
		texture = "012feb38-4e63-5bee-5988-8bfef2da1fd7";
		}
		if(text == "photo")
		{
			llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_TEXTURE,ALL_SIDES,(key)texture,<1,1,0>,<0,0,0>,0.0]);
		}

	}
}

The user has to find the UUID of a texture he/she wants to display (go to inventory, right click on it, and select "Copy Asset UUID" and then paste it into a chat line that says "photo xxxxxxxxxxxx," where xxxxxxxx is the UUID. If the user simply types "photo" without a UUID, the object displays a default picture of the Taj Mahal.

It works, it's simple, and it gives the new owner control over the texture without having mod rights to the object itself. I'll keep my fingers crossed to see whether customers can follow instructions.

That's what I thought, thank you both. (=