How do I make the sparkles stop?

I keep seeing sparkles whenever my scripts are running. This is messing with the aesthetics of what I'm trying to build. Is there a way of making that stop happening?

Less drugs?

Actually, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Could you post up a screenshot of these 'sparkles'?

Your sparkles are happening becuse the prim you are using has contained at some point a llparticle systems script,

llparticle system, plenty of info here and on the wiki to explore the settings but what you reallly need to know is that if you activate the system in a prim and then delete the script from the prim, it will still remain sparkly, you have to put in a another script that asks the prim to start the particle system again with out having any further parameters so it starts and does nothing.

This is like cleaning out your particle system.

drop the following script onto your buggy object, that should do the trick

default
{

state_entry()
{
llParticleSystem([]);
}

}

FYI the same thing can happen if you set the flexible status of a prim to true and also the set text content. Both of these need to be recalled with empty parameters in order to get rid of the previous ones.

(If im wrong about any of these someone please tell me, im quite new to this!)

Best
Goapinoa Primeau

Another possibility is that you have "show updates" switched on. If you press ctrl-alt-shift-U and it stops, that is your problem.

Umm, a different way of looking at it...

The "sparkles" are also done whenever your object says something to you, either in chat or privately. If it does not say anything (or I suspect, if you do not see what it says), then you will not see these particular sparkles.

If you've been creating your own (with llParticleStream), then deal with that instead.

I thought the same thing as Odysseus when I read the original post. To be certain, are the sparkles moving in a distictive circlar pattern around the object? When I enable debugging I sometimes end up with a nice whirlwind effect as the script dumps out dozens of lines of output.

This is probably it, yes. The object is, in fact, spewing out piles of debugging information at me, and the sparkles are in a whirlwind pattern around the object. It's nice to know that they'll go away when I remove the debugging chatter. I have to do that anyway because it considerably slows down execution.