Verbal Commands
The following verbal commands are available to use with Demeter. All commands must be prefixed by "d:" in order to be recognized by the application.
| begin | Instructs Demeter to open a terrain session for the current citizenship. You may not place any markers before a terrain session is opened. Terrain sessions are closed after two minutes of inactivity. |
| show | Instructs Demeter to make visible all the terrain.rwx markers within a fifty by fifty meter square surrounding the user. |
| hide | Instructs Demeter to hide all the terrain.rwx markers within a fifty by fifty meter square surrounding the user. Useful when terrain editing is complete for a particular area and seeing the terrain markers is no longer necessary. |
| show ed | Performs the same function as the "show" command, but shows all terrain objects regardless of citizen number. You must have eminent domain to access this command. |
| hide ed | Performs the same function as the "hide" command, but hides all terrain objects regardless of citizen number. You must have eminent domain to access this command. |
| show all | Performs the same function as the "show" command, but on all the terrain markers with the privilege password you are using you have visited in the entire world. Because the number of markers you have visited can become very large, this process may take several minutes, and no other commands may be used during this time. |
| hide all | Performs the opposite of the "show all" command. May take several minutes; use sparingly. |
| seed | Seeds a terrain marker in the nearest cell at your current altitude. This command is also useful for seeding an object to begin a new building in the middle of nowhere - simply change the model to whatever you would like. |
| version | Returns the version of Demeter running in a world. |
| stats | Instructs Demeter to display statistics about the location and number of terrain markers throughout the world, as well as the percentage of the world that has been queried by Demeter. |
| end | Instructs Demeter to close the current terrain session, and to disable terrain editing functions until another session is opened. |
| help | Instructs the Activeworlds browser to open these help files for reference. |
| delete all ed | Deletes all known terrain objects in the entire world, regardless of citizen number, and restores all of the known terrain in the world to the default height and texture zero. You must have eminent domain to access this command. |
| delete ed | Deletes all terrain objects in a fifty-by-fifty meter square surrounding you, regardless of citizen number, and restores the terrain in this area to the default height and texture zero. You must have eminent domain to access this command. |
| delete all | Deletes all of your known terrain objects in the entire world and restores the terrain in this area to the default height and texture zero. |
| delete | Deletes all of your terrain objects within a fifty by fifty meter square surrounding you and restores the terrain in this area to the default height and texture zero. |
| show all ed | If the user has eminent domain, shows all terrain objects in the world regardless of citizen number. |
| hide all ed | If the user has eminent domain, hides all terrain objects in the world regardless of citizen number. |
| hide ed all | If the user has eminent domain, hides all terrain objects in the world regardless of citizen number. |
| show 'Citizen Name' | If the user has eminent domain, makes visible all terrain objects owned by a certain user within a fifty-by-fifty meter square surrounding the user. |
| hide 'Citizen Name' | If the user has eminent domain, makes invisible all terrain objects owned by a certain user within a fifty-by-fifty meter square surrounding the user. |
| delete 'Citizen Name' | If the user has eminent domain, deletes all terrain objects owned by a certain user within a fifty-by-fifty meter square surrounding the user. |
| show 'Citizen Name' all | If the user has eminent domain, makes visible all terrain objects owned by a certain user in the entire world. |
| hide 'Citizen Name' all | If the user has eminent domain, makes invisible all terrain objects owned by a certain user in the entire world. |
| delete 'Citizen Name' all | If the user has eminent domain, deletes all terrain objects owned by a certain user in the entire world. |
Note: The citizen number of a user may be specified in place of a citizen name for commands that are aimed at a certain property owner. To show Demeter that you are asking it to read a citizen number instead of a citizen name, simply omit the quotes around the citizen number of the owner.
Thus, "d:hide 'Strike Rapier' all" and "d:hide 334303 all" accomplish the same goal.
The "show," "hide," and "delete" commands, along with their "ed" and "all" variations, will return the number of objects remaining to be processed if a huge request has been submitted that will take some time to complete.