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 (adjustable by the Demeter operator). |
| show | Instructs Demeter to make visible all the terrain.rwx markers within a 50x50 meter square surrounding the user. |
| hide | Instructs Demeter to hide all the terrain.rwx markers within a 50x50 meter square surrounding the user. Useful when terrain editing is complete for a particular area and seeing the terrain markers is no longer necessary. If you wish to delete unnecessary terrain markers and preserve the underlying terrain, use the detach command. |
| 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; please 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). |
| seed as 'Citizen Name' | If the user has Eminent Domain rights, this form of the seed command allows a terrain marker to be built as another user. |
| 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. New in version 2.0.8: Using the stats mem command will show memory usage statistics. |
| 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 50x50 meter square surrounding you and restores the terrain in this area to the default height and texture zero. |
| detach all ed | Deletes all known terrain objects in the entire world, regardless of citizen number, and leaves the underlying terrain unmodified. You must have eminent domain to access this command. |
| detach ed | Deletes all terrain objects in a fifty-by-fifty meter square surrounding you, regardless of citizen number, and leaves the underlying terrain unmodified. You must have eminent domain to access this command. |
| detach all | Deletes all of your known terrain objects in the entire world and leaves the underlying terrain unmodified. |
| detach | Deletes all of your terrain objects within a 50x50 meter square surrounding you and leaves the underlying terrain unmodified. |
| 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 50x50 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 50x50 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 50x50 meter square surrounding the user. |
| detach 'Citizen Name' | If the user has eminent domain, detaches all terrain objects owned by a certain user within a 50x50 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. |
| detach 'Citizen Name' all | If the user has eminent domain, detaches all terrain objects owned by a certain user in the entire world. |
| sessions | For users with Eject rights: Lists all users who have
active terrain sessions. For users without Eject rights: Lists users with sessions under your privilege. |
| texture | Assigns the specified texture in all markers inside a 50x50 meter square. A texture can be assigned to all markers that you own in a world by using 'all'; i.e., texture 41 all will assign texture 41 to all terrain markers built by you. |
| clickmode | New in version 2.0.8 If no parameters are given, returns your current clickmode -- the action Demeter will perform upon clicking terrain markers. The default action is to hide the clicked marker. Possible modes: delete, hide, show, detach Example: To use the 'delete' mode, use the clickmode delete command. |
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, delete, and detach 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.