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Jan 16, 2004, 2:22am

Don't know where you can get Chat to speech anymore, the d/l site's
gone....but Barons Sweetman's Chazbot will do text to speech. Still
wish it were browser based tho, so it can be used in areas that don't
allow bots :)

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Feb 10, 2004, 2:28pm

PKs are not given ED, they are not able to delete anything. All they do
is fill out a GET form and get GET to do it, which you can do yourself,
you don't have to go to a pk. Just go to
http://www.awcommunity.org/get/ and fill out the form and send it in
directly to them.

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Apr 20, 2004, 9:10pm

I think Alcior means that AW should explain on its help pages where it
talks about the URL command, that if you put in something like
file://c:\ that what is shown is *only* viewable by you and not by
anybody else. It would appear that someone Alcior knows bumped into
something and saw the contents of his harddrive listed on the screen and
freaked out thinking he'd been hacked or something hehe....and Alcior
had a hard time explaining to that person that they hadn't been hacked
and that noone else could see the stuff on their hard drive from the
page that opened.


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Jun 24, 2004, 2:27pm

CD, part of the beauty of online chat is that one is able to iggy those
who you don't want to hear from or who harass and annoy....I sometimes
wish RL came with an iggy button hehee :) *mutes mother-in-law* *mutes
whiny boss* *mutes annoying next door neighbor and their stupid rap
music* hehehe. There's too much crap to have to deal with in RL, it's
nice to not have to put up with it online....this is a place to
relax...if someone is bothering you then *click*, and it's all peaceful
again :)


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Jun 24, 2004, 10:30am

I wish that they'd add texturemodes LIT to the pictwlk and pictwll set
in AW.....it would be a simple change that wouldnt take long and I think
it would improve the look of builds that use these objects in AW
alot....those objects already have surface properties on them..they have
surface .55 .3 .1, and the unsupported texturemodes foreshorten. It
would just be a matter off adding three letters-- LIT after the
foreshorten. I like to build using my own textures on pictwlls and
wlks, but when those objects are used in builds, they are not responsive
to light. If there's a house made up of the pict objects, and you put a
light inside it, the light won't shine on the walls or floors, it won't
respond to the light at all. Or say you have a darkened tunnel or
passageway or something and you want torches in it and have the light
from the torches flicker against the walls.....if you're using your own
textures for the tunnel, the lights would do nothing. Alot of people
build using alot of the pict objects, I just think it would improve the
look of the builds if they could also be light responsive...just a pet
peeve of mine about AW hehe. :)

Jun 24, 2004, 10:54am

yeppers, I have done that for my own path for my own worlds :) But I
also like to build in Alphaworld too. If they don't want to go through
and change those objects themselves I'd be glad to send AWI copies of
the ones which I've already changed, then they would just need to upload
them to the AW path :)

[View Quote] > if you have your own OP why not add that to the rwx yourself and re name
> it ? :-)
>
>
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Jun 24, 2004, 8:49pm

When you use the create light command in Activeworlds, the way in which
we "see" the light is an illusion based on its effects on surrounding
objects in the area in which the light was used. The object's color
and/or textures on the areas which face the diffuse light source are
shown brighter to give the illusion that there is a light near it. In
order for an object to be able to do this and to give the illusion of
being lit by a light source, it must be enabled to reflect light. This
is done by using the command 'Texturesmodes LIT" in the rwx file. If
this command is not present in the objects surrounding the light source,
then the objects will not reflect light, and the light will *not* be
visible. Visually, it would be as if the light were not even there.
You could stick 'create light' on your lamp or your torch, or whatever,
but it would do nothing unless the objects surrounding it were enabled
to reflect light. The problem that I was talking about with the
pictwlks/pictwlls was that the objects are used by a great deal of
builders in alphaworld as a stock object to build with so that their own
textures can be used, but for some reason, when those objects were
created, 'Texturemodes lit" was not included in them, only 'Texturemodes
foreshorten" was, which does absolutely nothing, since foreshorten is
not supported by the AW browser. What I'm wanting is for it to look
like lights which are placed are actually there, instead of the light
being invisible, or barely or only partly perceptible, as is the case
when you build with alot of the pictwll/wlk objects. If "Texturemodes
Lit" were added to the pictwlls/wlks, then you'd be able to "see" the
lights which are placed near them :)


[View Quote] > Please clarify what you mean by LIT and foreshorten. Sorry, but I can't get
> a clear understanding of exactly what you want, Kathryn. O_o
>
>

Jun 25, 2004, 11:00am

yeppers :) The texturemodes lit makes it lit. And these objects
already have "surface .55 .3 .1" (the command that says to what degree
it will be lit), so yeah they just need the 'lit' added.

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Jan 15, 2004, 9:43pm

That record for the jury trial cannot be the one in regards to M A T T.
The case you posted is going to trial today. M A T Ts case hasn't gone
to trial, there has not even been an arraignment on any charges yet.
The purpose of the grand jury is to determine whether there is
sufficient evidence for indictment against the defendant and whether to
proceed with a criminal case. If the grand jury decides to proceed with
an indictment, then the defendant is formally charged and arrainged.
Afterwhich point he will have the opportunity to enter a plea on the
case. If he enters a plea of guilty or no contest, then the case is set
for sentencing. If a plea of not guilty is entered, then the case is
set for trial. This whole process can take several months and require
many court appearances before the final trial date.

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Feb 27, 2004, 8:15am

The lighting is back to white and white again, nice and bright in aw :D
ty ty AWI :)

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Feb 26, 2004, 2:18pm

That addy is like the gibberish addy's spammers are using now....they
stick alot of random characters into it and often into the subject.
Spammers have gotten more ruthless, they have started to send viruses in
an attempt to infect computers so that they can use other people's
computers to send spam from so that the spam will show as coming from
your computer and not theirs. What I do to avoid all that junk is have
different addy's. I have junk addy's and my real addy. I give the real
addy out only to family and friends and am very careful with it. If a
company or site asks for an addy I give fake info and fake addy unless
they need a confirmation email then I give them a junk addy. They can
spam the junk addy all they want, I never check the mail there or open
anything there. That's worked really well for me, I never get any spam
at all in my real addy.

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Mar 4, 2004, 12:53pm

omg here's a good one too http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame46.html
lol. That site is so funny, I know alot of those people there hehe. I
get the feeling this one may be M A T T:
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame15.html hehe

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Apr 8, 2004, 6:54pm

Andras has a cool little tool for that:
http://www.andras.net/tools.html A command line utility called
3danim.exe that will generate a sprite object and scale it to the size
you want all in one step. (lots of other neat tools on that page too :) )

[View Quote] > Could someone post the URL to the program that generates sprite models.
>
> Thanks bunches.
>
> Sharon / Lady ORB
>
>

Jun 2, 2004, 12:54pm

The statues have been gone for months, I noticed that a longggg time
ago. It happened awhile back when they changed the object password for
aw but didn't rezip the statues with the new password, the object errors
show that it's not loading because it doesn't have the right password.

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Jun 2, 2004, 1:05pm

Oh, you can still use it, nearly all the objects in aw have no password,
you just wouldn't be able to use the cy statue object or any other
object that has a password...everything else you can use.

[View Quote] > Yeah I noticed that. Why did they make a password for the OP? It was once
> public, and I used it in all of my worlds.
>
> Why?
>
> Jaguar Hahn
>
>
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Jun 3, 2004, 9:35pm

geeeez don't give AWI any ideas. "Large swathes of undeveloped online
property.....are selling for up to $550 an acre" The day I have to
start paying 100 freaking dollars for a stupid little plot on Alphaworld
or something like that is that day I'm outta here.

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Jun 17, 2004, 1:51am

Ferruccio, E N Z O said what the problem was. They were running routine
maintenance, and during that discovered a part that needed replacing but
they needed to send out for the part. What further info are you trying
to badger out of the poor man, do you need the part number or what???
Give it a rest already geez. These things happen. Computers have
probs, you fix them, sometimes it might take a little longer than you'd
like, but you DEAL with it.

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Jun 15, 2004, 7:47pm

I am an American. I love my country, but it is troubling to see such
attitudes here, and it is disappointing to find that the country has not
yet matured enough to be able to see anything outside of itself,
populated with so many narrow-minded citizens incapable of seeing beyond
their own backyard, who see the world as only existing in their nice
little bubble that they live in and refusing to see that there is much
more to the world. It is you Sharon who is being hateful with your
xenophobic attitudes about foreign cultures and beliefs. Not everyone
is going to think just the way that you do and you can't force them to
only think as you do, or to be silent about things that they believe in.
Sorry to burst your bubble Sharon, but the world does NOT revolve
around the United States of America. There are many, many more cultures
in the world, each deserving of it's own voice and place in the world.

<snip>"I don't want to come to my NGs each day and listen to this
anymore."<snip>

ps Sharon, it's not YOUR ng, it belongs to *all* of us, not just those
of us born on American soil.

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Jun 15, 2004, 11:50pm

ummmm zeofatex, did you even read my post? What you just said was the
point that I was making.

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Jun 16, 2004, 12:47am

that's ok, np :)

[View Quote] > yes, meant sharon. I saw your post and reading it, thought it was talking to
> xelag. It's ~23:00 here...
>
> sorry
>
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Jun 24, 2004, 1:27pm

it seems to be back online now.....maybe this means they're going to
update it soon? Too much to hope for? hehe

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Jun 23, 2004, 10:27am

Let's just ban the TROLL. Everyone, stop feeding the Sisko troll.
Responding to anything he says is pointless, he doesn't give a damn
about anything that's being discussed anyways. He's just saying
anything he can to try to try to inflame a war, trying to come up with
the most inflammatory idiotic comments that he can to try to spark
something so that he can sit back and enjoy watching the ensuing battle,
he gets a kick out of it. It's what he does for entertainment. And
he'd really get a kick of causing so much destruction with what he does
that the NG's are shut down because of it. It's obvious from his post
that that's what he was trying to do, trying to get the ng's shut down
out of his own sick need to destroy something to make himself feel good.
He's a classic troll, employing the standard troll tactics to try to
cause trouble, and people are taking his bait and responding to him.
Just ignore his idiocy.


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Jun 24, 2004, 7:26am

cool.....works great, and fast! I was never really able to use the one
for AW...too many objects under this cit...400k, browser would keep
timing out searching through that many objects. I have about the same
number of objects in awteen that I have in AW but with yours there's no
timeouts, it gives the results quick...now I can find my lost city hehe.
One thing's kinda wierd tho...it's showing property for me built in
2002...I didn't join Activeworlds until 2003....

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Jun 24, 2004, 1:58pm

wow thanks for looking into that....
Well, I went out to the site in teen, and was able to find the
terrain.rwx's....they were invisible, and I was able to see them after I
made an object nearby to click on....in the object properties window,
the dates on the terrain objects did show as being from 2002...so yeah,
it's definetely something on the awteen side of things and not from the
search script, it accurately showed the info that the world server had
for the objects. Those objects were demeter built objects, put there
through use of the demeter bot, so Im guessing that it's prob some
glitch in the terrain bot that gave them the wierd date....could be I
was trying to copying too many terrain objects at once and broke the bot
hehe

[View Quote] > Kathryn,
>
> I popped your name into my contact list, grabbed your cit num, and ran a
> search for property built only in 2002...
>
> I came up with 23 results.
>
> What's even more weird, is the 23 results are split between two specific
> times:
> 2002-08-20 04:07:40 (10 objects)
> 2002-12-04 03:07:18 (13 objects)
>
> They're also all terrain.rwx objects.
>
> It get's weirder....
> I tried actully teleporting to the location of these objects to see what
> the AW browser says about their time stamps, but they don't exist. The
> place I teleported to was where you had built some underground land
> cover. The terrain texture has definitly changed though, meaning that
> at some point there were terrain.rwx objects there.
>
> So, i'm not sure what's going on. But I don't think it's the property
> search's fault. The way I create the database that is uses is to have a
> script go though a propdump line-by-line and insert it into the MySQL
> database. So it must have come out of the propdump with a 2002 date on it.
>
> See if you can use the property search to teleport to those objects (use
> the date fields between 20020101 and 20021231) and let me know if you
> can find those terrain objects.
>
> -Jeremy
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jeremy Booker - Owner / Webmaster
> JTech Web Systems
> www.JTechWebSystems.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
> itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5:34
>
>
>
>
>
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Jun 24, 2004, 2:34pm

I've been building with demeter for over year, this is the first time
I've seen it give the wrong timestamp....it's always done ok before....I
think the bot was just having problems the day I built those ones.

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Jun 24, 2004, 6:17pm

re: 3) In the Imabot's forums for the AW prop search which also uses a
ppw, it was suggested that if someone is uncomfortable entering their
password onto the site, to make a temporary password just for use at the
site then change it back when they're done :)

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Jun 28, 2004, 11:18pm

Credit cards may not be the best solution, I agree. But still, one
can't just throw their hands up in the air and do nothing. Why does it
have to be one or the other, either the parents or the website or world?
That seems pretty black and white, why can't there be a middle ground?
Why can't it be both, both trying to do whatever they can do, as best
they can. Of course nothing is going to be 100% effective, nothing ever
is. But that is no reason to throw your hands up in the air and do
nothing, simply because you can't control everything. It's like, if
someone reallllly wants to get into my car, they can find a way. But
just because I can't protect it 100% doesnt mean Im going to park it by
the side of the road with the doors open and motor running and keys in
the ignition either. Each doing as best they can, helping one another.
That's what a community is all about.

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Jun 29, 2004, 2:50am

Of course there's no substitute, Im not talking about substituting, Im
talking about there being things *in addition to*. You're still
thinking of terms of it having to be all one or the other, black and
white. Just because a parent is concerned about things in society that
their child is exposed to does NOT automatically mean that they are lazy
parents who expect the internet or tv be their babysitter and don't
give a damn about what they do or don't know what they do, or that they
must not being doing a very good job at home with the child, or that
they are expecting others to raise their child for them. Im NOT talking
about replacing the parents role in caring for their child. Im talking
about 150% concern for your child at home, and 150% concern for your
child's environment out of the home, or online. Children first, always.
Society can't turn a blind eye to children and trample over them
treating them any way they feel like, not caring, because the child is
'someone else's problem' so why care to treat them with respect. Im
talking about the parent building up trust in the home and doing all
they can to teach their child right at home AND about there being
concern for a child's environment and the roles that others play as well
in their child's life. There needs to be both.

[View Quote] > Kathryn,
>
> There is no substitute to trust. If a parent can not build up a
> relationship of trust with his/her own child, who will?
>
> I'm not advocating unequivocal trust to everything that comes by you.
> I'm just stating something that seems to me inherent in the human
> race: take care of your children. Do not rely on external means to
> control them, the best is that you, as a parent, become aware of
> possible dangers and teach your children to avoid them. But also, that
> you realise your own limitations in seeing the world, and accept when
> your own make a different decision than what you would have liked them
> to do.
>
> False securities are the worse securities.
>
> Alex
>
>
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Jun 28, 2004, 11:36pm

Andras had a smart idea with his ng's :-) A 'flames' ng's for people to
rant and blow off steam, giving them a place where they can do that, to
keep it out of the regular ng's. Maybe we should have something like
that here...for those who feel compelled from time to time to blow off a
little steam :-)

[View Quote] > I'm just going to say this now before we have dozens of flames...
> Please, don't reply to this thread. Please? Pretty please with sugar on
> top? If everyone wants to moan at this or bitch at that, please start
> your own forum or newsgroup and do it there, okay? *hopes there aren't
> six flames when he reads the newsgroups again*
>
> Builderz
> http://www.3DHost.net

Jun 29, 2004, 2:54am

lol

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