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Jun 21, 2006, 1:38pm

[View Quote] I have decided that in light of some pretty huge changes that I will be
working on (adding scripting, enhanced zones, querying etc) that Evolution
269 will be the last update for a while while I work with my beta team
adding the new features.

You will find 269 quite stable, I do not know of any big problems with it.

I cant say it has query, but if you are missing your X1s then Evo might be
just the bot you are looking for :)

FULL INSTALLER:
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk/downloads/evo41_269_full.zip

UPDATE ONLY (EXE):
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk/downloads/evo41_269_update.zip

Eclipse Evolution is nominated for a CY, will see who wins :o)
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> FULL INSTALLER:
> http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk/downloads/evo41_269_full.zip
>
> UPDATE ONLY (EXE):
> http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk/downloads/evo41_269_update.zip
>
> Remember that Eclipse Evolution is CY nominated and would very much
> appreciate your vote :o)
>
> --
> - Mark Randall
> http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
>
> "We're Systems and Networks..."
> "It's our job to know..."
>

Jun 21, 2006, 4:46pm

[View Quote] No (well yes, but its horrifically complicated using XML Script), but you
are welcome to try the Beta that contains such methods easily.

> Can your bot allow unlimited chat between all users in a world regardless
> of distance....global chat but not just to the bot owner, for visitors as
> well?

It provides a global relay (although its kind of MSN like, with the way it
produces chat), against you are welcome to use the beta which has a standard
BVR mode.

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Jun 21, 2006, 8:31pm

[View Quote] Part of making things incredibly complicated is providing simple and
advanced ways of doing things. You should find the bot quite intutative to
use, best way to find out is to give it a try for an hour.

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Jun 21, 2006, 9:07pm

[View Quote] Probably took longer than that to learn AW :O)

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Jun 25, 2006, 3:10pm

Due to FastHosts screwing about (Now under German ownership, fun eh?)
several million sites are offline at the moment, including mine...

I will be moving all of the Evo stuff over to awportals (to fit with the
rest of my aw content) soon, however the download isnt currently available
for the bot.

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Jun 27, 2006, 12:59pm

w00t, FastHost sucks.

www.awportals.com/eclipse/ is much better.

You can get to this page by saying ^help in AWTeen.

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Jun 16, 2006, 7:05pm

The following constitutes an open letter to JP McCormic.

JP,

Please allow me to express my absolute *horror* at this change, I thought
something was up but only Andras just pinned it down, but God only knows
where you are getting your advise on these things.

Historically Active Worlds has always used a 400x400x400 cube, every single
bot ever made that includes a beyond-visual-range calculation has used this
formula, it is hard coded into most bots. Not only is the cube method faster
in terms of processing time (a simple condition check vs. square root ) but
it also has other advantages.

Consider the area that a bot can view; with a 400x400x400 cube this is
64,000,000 cubic meters area, that fitting within a sphere of radius 200m is
167,551 cubic meters.

Imagine, therefore, that 200m of ground zero needs monitoring in each
direction. Under 3.6 we could monitor this with a single SDK instance (bot)
located at 0n 0w 0w, under this new system it would require a minimum of 4
bots as your 'cube' you can monitor is reduced to that bound by a chord at
45 degrees. In lemans terms you now have a 283x283x283 box and bang now you
need 4x the number of bots to monitor the same area, that's 4x as many
connections, 4x as much bandwidth on the uniserver and world server, 4x as
many bots to monitor over.

To be blatantly honest JP what with this ridiculous licensing, the self
destruct SDK and now this you are plain begging for the Active Worlds SDK
users to turn away from the SDK and move to other platforms. The SDK users
are the most powerful group of users in Active Worlds, more powerful than
Active Worlds Inc itself, regardless of which galaxy or universe they are
in, for every feature put into the browser or world there is almost
certainly a bot which one of us has made that does it twice as good as
whatever your own developers can come up with and hell, its what you would
expect, there's about 20 SDK developers vs the 2 programmers you have.

The company I am working for is soon to blow about $40,000 on developing a
massive RPG using the Active Worlds technology, and with the help of perhaps
100 custom bots I have even helped convince them that the platform has a lot
more potential - what I refuse to do is to waste their money by spending 40
thousand dollars on a project that Active Worlds Inc is going to sabotage by
destabilising the SDK by making stupid changes, adding low grade security
and logic bombs and other such things.

The SDK coders provide the majority of your income (at least for the main
universe); as you would have far fewer worlds if we did not make tools for
their owners to support them, nor would you have places like AWRPG, AD&D or
AWBingo etc with 40 users a piece.

The fact is this, you must:
* Remove the logic bomb for debugging
* Remove the license file (or at least make one that actually works)
* Convert back to the 400m cube range
* Complete the 4.1 documentation for the SDK
* Fix the crashes in the SDK on world disconnect etc.

If you need a financial reason why here it is: The SDK developers,
professional designers etc control 80%+ of all resources in or relating to
Active Worlds in terms of technology, designs and objects, now when we
consider that the platform has become unstable due to ridiculous and poorly
judged decisions from AWI we will have an extremely high chance of getting
together and building a new 3D platform from scratch - hell most of the
interactive systems already exist in most of our bots anyway, and it
wouldn't take long to add every feature Active Worlds has and that means
your business would drop very, very fast.

Stop sabotaging the damned SDK and its users, we are the one group of users
you cannot afford to lose.

- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk

"We're Systems and Networks..."
"It's our job to know..."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cryonics" <cryonics at activeworlds.com>
Newsgroups: beta,community,worldbuilders
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: scavenger hunt


>
> The visible radius of avatars and bots in world has changed in 4.1. It is
> now a sphere around the
> avatar's location, unlike in 3.6 where the visual view was represented by
> a
> box. This is not a bug and there are
> no plans to change it.
>
> Cryonics

Jun 17, 2006, 10:29pm

[View Quote] Realise that... so instead of 3 subtractions 3 abs and and a maximum of 3
comparisons you need 3 powers and 1 comparison.

I wonder what that would work out as in real-terms.

Regardless, when you are blowing 5 minutes querying a 40x40 area, and then
getting less than half of it observable and cutting down the range you can
monitor with a single bot its still an incredibly bad idea.

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Jun 19, 2006, 6:52pm

[View Quote] Excellent News.

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Jun 20, 2006, 1:21am

[View Quote] JP mentioned to me in a private email that removing the license was a no go,
therefore what I have requested is a method to select the license file to
use before calling aw_create, something like:

int aw_sdk_license(const char* _FilePath);

Im sure they will get around to killing that horrible horrible self destruct
and that ghastly unpacker temp file that is dropped before we have to lynch
them :)

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Jun 20, 2006, 9:32am

[View Quote] "presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible"

Thats what programmers are all about :o)

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Jun 20, 2006, 7:25pm

2 problems down, the biggest one left to go

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Jun 28, 2006, 9:56pm

Global Mode

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Jul 7, 2006, 6:23pm

Hi all,

A beta upgrade to Eclipse Evolution is now available on the website at
www.awportals.com/eclipse/

This upgrade contains the basic scripting system and it gives some features
similiar to Preston bots and can be accessed via the support > simple script
controller menu option.

Examples are available at:
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/bscript/example_1.php

There are also enhanced tools such as listing power-users.

Also introducing global-command-services, a set of special commands designed
for world owners to give their users abilities such as seeing who else is
using their privilege password, auto-join capabilities, finding their
coordinates etc.

Eclipse Evolution is AWTeen's primary services tool, to find out about the
new global command services visit AWTeen to try them out by saying...

^ratios
^version
^myprivs
^coords
^myrights
^identify
^world/about
^jump/near

For more information on jump points see
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/verbal/jump_1.php

Jump points are one of AWTeens most popular features with over 230
individual jump points and almost 1000 jump commands used a week.

Later on this weekend I will also be publishing a case study on using the
inbuilt MD5 cryptographic-hash function to positivly identify citizens to
web servers (no more need for them to give their privilege passwords to
authenticate via the non-existant COM DLL)

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Jul 7, 2006, 10:02pm

[View Quote] While I have the new thread, I would like to bring up one of the best
selling-points for using Eclipse Evolution in your worlds.

A lot of people come to me and ask me is there any way to find out who
ejected someone if I do not host the world and the ejection has already
expired, and I have to say that it would require contacting the hosting
provider.

<techsnip> The OO nature of Eclipse Evolution means that actions taken by
the bot can be handled in a uniform and consistant style, such as having the
eject method itself write an ejection report </techsnip>

Anyway, for those world owners that are concerned about giving out eject
rights you should consider using a bot such as Eclipse Evolution, its
inbuilt eject log capability means that you always know who has made
ejections and for what reason in a format that is easy to use.

No more having to contact world hosts to find out who ejected who.

For more information see:

http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/security/eject_db.php

You can download Eclipse Evolution at

www.awportals.com/eclipse/

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Jul 8, 2006, 6:48pm

There are now several new help sections available:

Introduction to Verbal Commands:
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/verbal/

FreeJoin mode (used in AWTeen):
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/verbal/gcs_1.php

Thrusting (used in AWTeen):
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/verbal/gcs_2.php

Changing World Attributes:
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/verbal/world_1.php

World Information:
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/verbal/world_2.php

Also..
...
...

Cryptographic Hashing for 3rd Party User Authentication:
http://www.awportals.com/eclipse/docs/bscript/example_3.php


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Jul 15, 2006, 11:39pm

I keep getting bugged for previews, so here one is (build 276):

* Zone based events allowing you to exclude users from areas of a world
* Advanced graphing capabilities (see below)
* More commands including sound-sending
* Easier access to change the CIS keys

Time Charts:

http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk/mark/awteen/graph1.png
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk/mark/awteen/graph2.png

(Arcadia apparently died at some point)

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Jul 17, 2006, 5:56am

IT LIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS AAGGAAAIIIIINNNNN!!

>: )~

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Jul 17, 2006, 2:34pm

[View Quote] Ok, so maybe I lied...

Last night I encountered a catastrophic hard disk failure (ie: somehow my
drive got formatted while installing a new drive).

Several of the latest Eclipse Evolution source files became corrupted,
however I made some pretty large changes in those files -

Its not the end of the world, I managed to recover 90% of it using Stellar
Phoenix and am trying to replace the lost files.

It does however mean the next update may take a while.

Jul 17, 2006, 6:36pm

[View Quote] Its my fault really - I did not notice that my laptop was disconnected from
the network, and hence the backup across the network wasnt working.

Jul 17, 2006, 10:11pm

[View Quote] Update:

Full investigation has revealed that the evo core has been corrupted.

It therefore makes more sense to re-write the bot (or at least its core) and
import what can be salvaged from the old project, rather than attempting to
fix the current project.

Sufficed to say I have learnt one hell of a lot in the process of making Evo
and moved from C++ noob to a proper designer, so I should be able to rip
through the redesign and get something back out within a few months.

Until that point I will likely release the last build I produced for the
beta which is, sufficed to say, more stable than my hard disk.

Sorry to everyone that uses it,

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Mark

Jul 8, 2006, 6:50pm

[View Quote] Use a graphical user interface to do it, that way you can set up what is
called a message loop timer WM_TIMER which you can then trigger aw_wait
for - no more use of while loops. Avoid threading if you can, horrible
horrible thing in most cases - certainally not something you want to try and
tackle if you are new.

I suggest you download Visual Studio 2005 express, its a good price (Free!)
and although its .NET for a new user its a good thing to use.

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Jul 8, 2006, 8:40pm

[View Quote] ..NET has one major weakness (especially on the C++ side)...

Lack of multiple inheritance support, especially for major bots its useful
to pile layers and layers on top of a base class to add extra functionality
etc.

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Jul 10, 2006, 9:34am

[View Quote] Thanks!

I have been working on query, however its an absolute bugger to write
appropriate wrappers and tests etc while the SDK has its logic bomb built
in.

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Jul 10, 2006, 9:24am

Hi,

I have noticed recently that bots seem to be dissapearing from the SDK; ie:
an avatar add event is never receieved for them.

So far I have noticed this with a Preston and an Evo detecting an Evo and
Hambot respectivly - the avatar can just see them perfectly but sometimes
its like the bot doesnt exist to the other. One bot can see the other, but
the other cannot see the first bot.

Has anyone else encountered any behaviour like this?

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Jul 14, 2006, 12:49pm

[View Quote] Evo, of course! :)

Actually, on Evo its basic scripting is more along the lines of a sequential
list of commands, they are just based on the verbal commands ie:

To make the bot whisper to someone via a command, you say:

#whisper <the persons name>, <the message>

In the 'scripting' it basically executes sets of commands via the GUI
command input, the 'CIS Key' for these in the scripting language is always
$, so...

$whisper {user.name}, Hi there {user.name}

Quite simple, theres just sets of tags in brackets that you use.

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Jul 18, 2006, 4:50am

[View Quote] Pftt, some people are just so hard to please.

- Mark

Aug 7, 2006, 2:19pm

You mean someone out there doesnt know he is called XeLaG? Even based on the
bots name?

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[View Quote]

Apr 8, 2003, 5:25pm

Maybe Bill could find his email from cit options and go and tell him? :o

- Mark
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Feb 22, 2002, 6:01pm

(To start with, for any of you know MM and have dirty minds it is NOT what I
mean!!! So dont even think it!!!)

How about including MacroMedia Flash in AW? It would open up MASSIVE
developments in AW< you can have games and such like straight onto objects.

like

create flash macromedia.com/aw/flash/swf/game1.swf (non existant)

:P

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