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Jan 5, 2001, 4:37pm

Oh for F**ks sake......

[View Quote] Where do I say AW CAN do that, dopey? Read the f**king text and try to
UNDERSTAND what people are saying. AW IS NOT GAME! Can you get that into
your thick skull? You would be scared of what I know pal!

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environment
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> AW public building worlds don't allow building with ANYTHING, as you
imply, but impose restrictions on unconvered land, the ground zero building
limit radius, whether or not the world has an object registry, eminent
domain rights, etc, etc.

You're getting pedantic now ... running out of sound arguments? ... and you
CAN build with anything ... in your own world. MAKE the object, USE the
object. Pretty simple to understand I would have thought. What game allows
you to do that then?

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> You forget that AW has hardly any physics, and most 3D games don't have
that detailed enough physics, but I'm sure if a 3D bowling game had an
"alley/lane editor", the pins could be knocked down from whatever angle the
designer wanted.

Guess what "Here's an example (of the point - don't take it too literally
regarding AW)" meant? E-X-A-M-P-L-E ... meaning a method of demostrating a
point and "don't take it too literally regarding AW" meaning not necessarily
relating to AW ... because is was an E-X-A-M-P-L-E of the P-O-I-N-T.


>
> Stop acting so cluelessly inept and LEARN about things before attempting
to communicate about them, eh? God damn.

Not even going to bother with this one. You are now back on the filter list
and told to F**K OFF.

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army
are
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Mar 1, 2001, 2:07am

The amount of whining that people do about AWCI's customer support and not
caring about the citizens ... and then someone comes up with this type of
rediculous trash. Geesh !!

AW has an established user base that THEY would be short of sense to ignore.
Get some perspective!


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Apr 19, 2001, 8:53pm

Hey ... if you ask him nicely, I'm sure Andras would host a newsgroup for
you lot called "My dick's bigger than yours". Then you can keep this crap up
all day long without boring other people !!

Waddya reckon??



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Apr 20, 2001, 6:06am

I think that, for some people here, that decision has alread been made!


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Apr 20, 2001, 6:11am

The speed/type of the connection isn't the issue here ... its the fact that
hosting servers on your connection uses up more of the ISP's available
bandwidth. They've forecast the average home users bandwidth requirements
and priced the at Home package accordingly. You pay more ... for at Work ...
because its a different segment of users ... with higher bandwidth
requirements.

Its their business ... let them run it and charge what they want. If people
don't like that, then they can go elsewhere. Geesh! its only the way the
world works afterall and has done for centuries!

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Aug 4, 2001, 12:33am

Bots aren't silly, they are a key part to the overall look, feel and
functionality of many worlds. Bots require no visual component by
definition - i.e. they have no need for a dependancy on the browser - so why
make them a plugin of the browser?

Ryan obviously doesn't understand what the concepts are behind bots and I'm
afraid you may be missing the point here also Eep.

Grims.

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Sep 4, 2001, 9:06pm

Hey people, can we restrict this to ONE newsgroup please? ... rather than
all of them? The topic is kinda tired now.

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Oct 1, 2001, 4:06am

This is true, but, in my experience, using a few "create animate me . 1 1
0,astart;adone texture carpet1 name=c1,astart" commands in an area makes the
frame rate drops through the floor. An expensive solution (resource wise) to
a one-time-per-visit problem.

Not that I have an alternative.

Grims.


[View Quote] > No it's not, if the object with the "create texture carpet1 name=c1" loads
> before the objects with "c1" in it, they won't be textured. The animation
> allows it the texturer to keep refreshing. I learned that trick from Lara
> =)

Jun 13, 2002, 4:15am

For quite a while now I, and I am sure many others have tolerated the
Add/Delete combination of events when a user moves an object but its always
very inhibiting, needing to implement a separate queue inside the bot and
peek at the following events - but its still esentially a guess. Something
that would be infinitely more useful when dealing with building activities
would either be for the object number, X and Z coordinates of the previous
object (zeros if not applicable) to be included in the delete event or,
preferably, a new AW_EVENT_OBJECT_CHANGE event with the merged attributes of
the current add and delete event (using the existing AW_OBJECT_OLD_NUMBER,
AW_OBJECT_OLD_X and AW_OBJECT_OLD_Z attributes).

Ideally, I'd like to take that thought a stage further, where ALL of the
attributes of the deleted object (both in the delete event and any potential
change event) are supplied. When you're dealing with a large world,
pre-surveying is not feasible and with no prior knowledge of the object,
reversing a delete is impossible.

Being able to cause an object change but not detect one can be very
frustrating.

Grims

Jun 25, 2002, 10:54am

I know it has been mentioned before, but a way of refreshing the world
content without having to bounce off another world is becoming more and more
important to to me. The reason I'm bringing it up again is that its a huge
pain when you're in a single-world environment (SolServer or Galaxy) as
there's no other place to teleport to and this means you have to shut down
and restart the browser to refresh.

I think a development mode was mentioned a while back too.

Grims.

Jul 1, 2002, 5:36pm

Thanks Ananas .. I went one step further in the end and edited teleports.txt
to teleport me to "nowhere" which bounced me nicely.

Grims.

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Jun 30, 2002, 3:46am

Please can we have some rationale applied to the web window? When its
hidden, the page is kept active, but when its reshown, the page is
refreshed. This is especially a pain with streaming media, where hiding the
window doesn't terminate the content but it restarts if the user shows the
window again.

The *logical* solution is to terminate the page when its hidden, but in this
case I'd prefer it to be kept active (swings and roundabouts really as
sometimes it would be preferable for it to terminate and sometimes not).
Unfortunately, we seem to have half of one side and half of the other at the
moment and it makes it pretty much impossible to guarantee the results at
the client side. Of course, my current woes with the streaming would go away
if AW fancied implementing SureStream RealAudio support within the browser
heh heh.

While I'm in a "wish" phase and on the subject of the web window, there are
two other things that come to mind...

Firstly there's the "Target" argument. Now considering that the window needs
to be kept quite small to keep some reasonable access to the 3D and chat
windows, I would imagine that the vast majority of people use the "Target"
argument primarily to open a new browser window. But the web window opens at
the same time (and the address bar of the integrated browser is changed to
the new url without changing the page content), meaning you have to make
sure that the integrated browser has at least *some* content so it doesn't
look bad. Not forcing the web window open when the target isn't for that
window would clean things up nicely.

Secondly, there's the SDK aw_url_send method, which only seems to set the
url for the web window and not activate the window itself if its not
visible. The url isn't called until the web window is opened. Again, this
seems a bit half and half to me. I would expect (personal opinion) that
either the window would open or the page would load in the background.

Ideally for me, a couple of additional optional arguments to the browser's
URL action command and the SDK aw_url_send method would be just dandy, to
indicate (a) whether to open a new IE/Netscape(?) window directly and (b)
whether to open the web window on either a browser click/whatever or receipt
of an SDK command.

This seems to have turned into a bit of an essay but I really don't get on
with this window at all. Linking to the "outside world" through the web
window has such potential in a controlled environment but its hard to
exploit that potential with the way it stands at the moment.

Grims.

Jul 1, 2002, 6:11pm

Configurable I hope ... not everyone is as excited as some at the idea of AW
resembling a kiddies chat toy.

Grims

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Jul 1, 2002, 6:57pm

"Unfixing" the negative light bug from a few versions ago would be useful
right about now.

Jul 2, 2002, 12:41pm

Checking proximity in the code is a less "laggy" solution than having to
handle all the events of walking on floors for all avatars (my opinion). You
can always speed up the code by adding some creative indexing based on the
objects location ... but handling the additional "bump" events (most of
which will be irrelevent and ignored) can't be tuned at all.

Grims

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Jul 2, 2002, 10:04pm

Its only just occurred to me as odd to be honest, but why is it the
Immigration Officer that says the universe and world welcome messages? Maybe
a legacy thing, but there's certainly no need now, especially for the world
message.

Could it just be a message without a "speaker"?

Grims

Jul 2, 2002, 10:22pm

Tiny one this, and I don't know if it may even be a bug ... but the name
used in the chat window for the person logged into the browser (i.e. me)
seems to be the one entered on the logon screen and not the one for the
citizenship in terms of case. If I log in as "gRIMBLE" then that's what
appears against my chat in my browser rather than "Grimble".

Too petty a request?

Jul 6, 2002, 7:34pm

Having two-sided terrain (or a world setting for it) would be for the whole
world, just so that one area can have a cave. The use of a cave the same
shape as the hill (not a common feature in the world as we know it) is
questionable too really.

If you want a cave, I think the best solution is to build one with suitable
objects under the terrain. Looks better and more easily made to look like
you want.

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Jul 7, 2002, 5:38pm

Obviously its possible, but every frame would have to render your viewport
and the view from every local camera ... which will take a comaprable time
.... halving the browser's framerate with just the first camera.

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Jul 20, 2002, 3:20pm

That's the last place I'd put it. If its running remotely, creating JPGs for
the camera then as far as AW's concerned its just a "create picture blah
update=x". Hardly worth the effort for something so "frilly". HabboHotel is
Flash, so its a damned site easier to implement in that toy.

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Jul 9, 2002, 3:54pm

I can see the press release now ... "STOP THE PRESS ... New Inverted View
feature added to Activeworlds to enable people to build an upside down
house". Gonna write that one down ... Its a Classic! Thought about turning
your monitor on its head if its so difficult?

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Jul 9, 2002, 3:48pm

How about letting Tourists into AWDemo and associated worlds, since they're
meant to be there to "show off" the environment.

Grims

Jul 13, 2002, 7:47pm

Is this really relevent to the wishlist?

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Jul 13, 2002, 7:47pm

I don't think "refused" is really the word here - implementing GIF support
in commercial products involves license fees which makes it a corporate
decision of AWC as to whether they see sufficient benefit in it to pay them.
Apart from the principle of paying for the "right" to use a graphics format
(which is outrageous in itself) I don't the licence fees come that cheap for
a product that until recently was supported by those that use it by way of a
$20 a year fee.

Maybe now there's a more realisitic pricetag on the product, they would
consider it.

Grims

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Jul 22, 2002, 12:06am

Now you've totally confused me. I don't see how the format that the model is
stored in would affect the speed at which the model is handled. Its what you
do with the information in the model that's important, not the way you got
the information in the first place.

[View Quote] For starters, RWX isn't the best way to go. It may have been when
ActiveWorlds was beginning but right now it's not, it's much too slow.

Jul 22, 2002, 2:58am

That's obvious and not the point I quoted.

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Jul 22, 2002, 11:35am

Forget it, you're missing the point.

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Jul 21, 2002, 11:57pm

What? You get dafter with every post!

[View Quote] aw wants to squeeze ever dollar out of us, and theres a chance that people
who have more than one cit ould renew the old one for a month every once in
a while to check their tgrams.

Jul 20, 2002, 3:03pm

agreed

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Jul 21, 2002, 11:12am

Unfortunately, AW is a small community populated with a number of people who
think they're clever. As usual, it only takes a few idiots to spoil the
whole idea ... and there are plenty of them around in AW.

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