More specifically, any prim that has the mandatory script but doesn't have permissions properly set could emit a radiating particle stream to make it easy to find. Although prims without the mandatory script aren't as easy to highlight, the mandatory script could make all prims with the script glow for 10 seconds or so, allowing the user to scan for any prims that aren't glowing.

1. I switched the parcel toggle to the build parcel and rezzed a design.
2. Not being sure of how it was supposed to work, I switched the parcel toggle back to the build parcel and pressed the X button. Sure enough, the design on the build parcel was deleted, so I figured I had done it right.
3. I rezzed my partially done design on the build parcel. (All the prims had the standard script.)
4. I worked for awhile, and then all of a sudden, my design was gone and replaced by another.

I checked the mini-map to see if someone might have inadvertently done it, but there was no one else on the sim. Thinking about it afterwards, I'm guessing that the parcel toggle didn't reset after I deleting the build design, and that the timed update simple did what it would normally do on the display parcel.

I didn't lose a lot of work, so I'm not upset by this. But is there a compelling reason for automatic deletions from the build parcel? I'm sure I won't be the last one to get caught by this.

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Moving on, we come to the buttons you will use when submitting your design iterations to the archive 'canopy' above. In order to illustrate how these buttons work, i will take you through a hypothetical scenario.

1. Let's say as you were rezzing out designs from the 'canopy' onto the 'viewing parcel', and you came across one you would like to work on.

2a. If you would like to work on-site:

• Touch the 'toggle switch' at the top of the 'trunk' so the next design will rez onto the 'building parcel'.
• Since you want to rez out the same design that is on the 'viewing parcel' to the 'building parcel, just touch the 'active leaf' again. So once it's rezzed out, you can design/build to your heart's content.

2b. If you would like to work off-site: Select all the objects on the viewing parcel, right click and 'take…' them into your inventory.

3a. If you worked on-site:

• So once you're finished with your design and are ready to start the process of submitting to the canopy, touch the 'prepare to submit' button.
• What this step does, is shoot all the requisite information, such as 'location' and 'rotation' into all the prims that are currently out on the 'building parcel'.

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3b. If you worked off-site:

• When you submit your design to the canopy, it branches a new 'archive leaf' off the (leaf) design that is currently active on the build parcel. (which is not necessarily the active leaf in the canopy.) To make sure, toggle over to the 'building parcel' and touch the parental leaf you based your new design iteration off of.
• Once that parent design is rezzed out onto the 'building parcel', touch the 'clear parcel' button. Performing this step, allows you to be sure that the 'active leaf' above, is the design your new submission will be branched off of.
• So with a clear parcel, rez out your new design iteration onto the 'buidling parcel' and relocate as necessary. Once your design is positioned properly on the parcel, touch the 'prepare to submit' button.

4. Once the information has been recorded, (build control panel shouts: Information recorded) select all the prims that compose your design iteration, right click on any one selected prim and go to 'take…'. This will send what was selected to your inventory.

5. The saved design in your inventory will look something like this: TREE::1193100140::LEAF::1193116779

• To help assure that you don't select other prims outside the design, it helps checking the 'select only movable objects' under the 'tool' menu.

6. After the design has been saved to your inventory, drag the design (ex: TREE::1193100140::LEAF::1193116779) from your inventory to the 'contents tab' of the prim in the 'trunk' that says 'drop box for designs'. This is done by right clicking the 'drop box' and go to 'edit…'

7. Clicking on 'edit…' should bring up a 'dialog box' that looks like the following image. Click on the 'Content' tab of this 'dialog box'.

8. Now drag your design iteration (ex: TREE::1193100140::LEAF::1193116779) from your inventory to the 'contents tab'… as illustrated:

9. After saving or dragging your design from your inventory to the 'contents' tab of the 'drop box', touch the 'submit design' button.

10. As you will see, from when i submit my design, a new 'child leaf' will rez itself off of the 'parental leaf'. And as mentioned before, the animated texture 'shooting' between two ‘leaves’ indicates the direction in which one evolved from the other.

11. After that, congratulations, you just saved your design to the canopy.

• there's one caveat i would like to mention, however. Sometimes there's so many prims in the selection, that when you 'take' this selected set into your inventory, some prims will be left behind. This is because SL limits the number of prims you can 'pick' up at a time. If this happens you simply select the remaining prims that were not picked and repeat the process of taking these last remaining prims into your inventory. So if find yourself in this scenario, you would drag over (two) sets of objects from your inventory to the 'drop box'.

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