Poofer Script Quirk on HUD

OK, I am having some strange symptoms maybe one of you can help me answer. I have written a poofer script that is in the root of a HUD object. When on the ground the HUD button to communicate to poofer script works perfectly. The HUD device on the ground starts poofing. However, when I attach the object to me as a HUD device is no longer poofs even though communications still work.

I have tried building a second object and attaching it to my avatar and that works, but I would rather simply use the HUD as my object.

Any ideas as to why the particle system does not work when I have it attached to me as a HUD?

Objects attached to your HUD are private; their prims are never sent to others' clients for rendering or anything else.

A particle system is property of a prim, when a client receives a prim for rendering, it then knows of the particle system.

So since your HUD prims are never sent to anyone, they'll never see the particles either.

It has helped me to understand why, but the odd thing is that I created a seperate object and attached it to my HUD. My main HUD object communicated to it through chat channels for turning it on and off. The surprising thing was that I am sure it worked and I could pan around and see the particles around me.

Maybe I was mistaken... But it looks like I will have to attach a poofer object to by avatar and send signals to it from the HUD.

Thanks again!

You will see the particles because the HUD is sent to your client for render. No-one else will be able to see them because the HUD is not sent to their client for render.