Particle streams from outside prim boundaries

Hi, I've been playing around with particles a bit...making fireworks, that kinda thing...and I'm wondering. Right now, I'm making a firehose-type deal just for fun, where the stream of 'water' shoots out of the main body like coming from a cannon, figure something like that would be cool as a weapon, add a little push script to it and you knock people around with the stream. Ultimate Super-Soaker. Trouble is, no matter what I do, the water looks like it's coming from the whole nozzle, not just coming out of the tip. I imagine I could make a transparent prim a little bit out from the nozzle, have the stream come from there, but I'd like a more elegant approach than adding a prim that nobody's even gonna see if it's possible...namely, instead of the stream coming directly from the prim, having it start out just a little outside it. Not far, just enough that you don't see what looks like water coming out of the sides of the nozzle instead of just the tip.

Is this possible? Just a baby scripter here (where's my bottle...), if there's a simple 'start from here' parameter/function/capability/whatever I haven't found it. Thanks!

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llParticleSystem

I think you're looking for PSYS_SRC_BURST_RADIUS

(or just put the particle generator in a small transparent prim linked to the end of the nozzle)

Oh, cool! That was quick. I was hoping there was something like that which I could use

Yeah, I already thought of the transparent prim thing, but I'd rather not--why waste prims, plus if anybody uses the keyboard commands to show transparent objects, they'd see it. Why that kinda thing's important to me I dunno, but it is.

Thanks, I'll try the burst_radius routine tonight, see if it does what I'm wanting.

Yep, that did the trick! Great, now I can move on to bigger and better projects.