Copying textures to child prims

Hi

This is my first scripting attempt so bear with me.. although i am a java coder by profession....

Ive got a 3 prim object, the root prim has a script that sends messages to the child prims to update their textures. The textures have been dropped into the linked object and therefore only appear in the root prim. However, the child prims cannot reference the textures as they are held in the root prim.

Is there any way to copy the textures to the child prims when they are dropped in, or is there a way to get a reference the textures from the child prims?

Regards

Dreamoutloud.

If you have FULL permissions on the texture, you can obtain and use its UUID key, and send that to the child prims. Then you won't even need the textures to be in any object at all.

OK, im probably being stupid, but i cant find which call to make to get the UUID of the textures. Had a look in the wiki but cant find it. Help!!

thanks

Dream

right-click the desired texture in your inventory, then select COPY UUID from the popup menu.

Then use that key to reference the texture instead of its name.
Just paste it into the script where you reference the texture.

If you have full permissions on it, that will work perfectly fine.

ahh, but the textures will be dropped into the object by the owner of the object, so i need to be able to get the texture id from the name

Or is there an alternate to llgetinventoryName?

EDIT: worked it out.. use llgetinventorykey on the name.

Thanks

Dream