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May 30, 2006, 5:20pm

[View Quote] > Who thinks AWI should give everyone complimentary 1 week citizenship
> extensions for being so damned late >_>.
>
> Ive been up since 6am waiting damnit!
>
>

1 week deducted from Strike Rapiers account

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Andras
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Jun 1, 2006, 8:46pm

[View Quote] > I'm not sure, but I think I might have found a bug. I've been playing with
> transparent gifs, and when I use them in AW they have a dark outline
> (http://www.scentednectar.com/aw/temp-01.jpg). When I look at them close
> up, I can see that the outline is actually AW background texture showing
> through where it shouldn't (http://www.scentednectar.com/aw/temp-02.jpg).
> Has anyone else found this?
>

That is a well known limitation of AW and it exists in 3.6 too. I don't remember to the explanation but something has to be done with the rendering speed versus quality.
Took me about a week of work to find that the (then) newly added tbtree models (by tunablues and dreamer2) are OK, just the rendering can not be done properly.
You can check it out: tbtree001.rwx and it uses jpg and bmp for mask.

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Andras
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Jun 5, 2006, 5:38am

[View Quote] > I'm assuming you reinstalled your graphics drivers. However, before doing so
> did you switch your graphics driver to a generic VGA driver? Also, a while
> back, some graphics card makers gave out a utility to use as a second step
> before installing new driver, and it would completely erase all the old part
> of the driver. You might also look into downloading from microsoft that
> latest copy of DirectX, even though your automatic updates probably did it
> for you many moons ago... can't hurt to rerun it.
>
> Short of the problems with masks, facers and the like, I am having a grand
> time graphically speaking. However if I am online using the 949 browser for
> a couple of hours it eventually starts getting really slow and if I ignore
> it and don't shut it down, windows reboots. Could also be a heat related
> issue too since I may be stressing the gpu/cpu with the bazillions of
> particles I am using. *shrugs* Need to get myself a monitor for that and
> check.
>
>

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Excellent tool!

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Andras
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Jun 15, 2006, 7:59am

[View Quote] > I didn't know anything like that existed....where do I get something simple
> enough to run, without having to do all that bouncing.....and I mean real
> simple....truespace wings3d and all those just frustrated me LOL
>
> sweets
>
>

http://www.activeworlds.com/downloads/rwxmod17.zip
and
http://www.activeworlds.com/downloads/rw20dlls.zip

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Andras
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Jun 15, 2006, 8:21am

[View Quote] [View Quote] Additions:
1, Extract both zip into one folder.
2, RWXMod can use only bitmap textures, and it is looking for the path../textures folder first (you can configure where to look for them), so all jpg textures should be tconverted to bitmap format.

Advantage of using RWXMod is that if your rwx file can be rendered with it, then AWI should render it too :)

Another excellen too is Accutrans (not free but very good).


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Andras
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Jun 15, 2006, 3:17pm

[View Quote] > It is free, no nag screens or anything to stop you using it, lol
>

Well - according to its web site, it is not free. I payed my share and several of us who are not free-riders did.

Shame on you :(

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Andras
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Jun 16, 2006, 4:16am

FYI

The official Accutrans newsgroup is news://news.andras.net/accutrans
Wayne reads that and he responds to logical ideas fairly fast :)


[View Quote] > I used it for almost two years without paying (intended to but didn't have a
> job or money so I couldn't) ... I finally DID pay and I paid for 3 licenses
> rather than just one, to make up for non payment previously ... in other
> words I paid $60.00 for what I thought was three years but rather Wayne
> tells me that was good for me, and two others, it's $20.00 one time fee ...
> not bad if you use it ALOT like I do ... I practically LIVE in accutrans LOL
>
> Thanks Wayne (if yer able to read here) :o}
>
> Lady NightHawk
>



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Andras
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Jun 16, 2006, 5:36pm

Thanks for the prompt response.

What does it mean in laymen terms:

You have a single regular bot at GZ.
It can see the objects within the 400x400m square.
With the new settings it can see the avatars only at a 200m radius sphere.
So: if the avatar stands at 15N 15W, the bot will not see it and will not receive any click notification the avatar made.

This is not a bug ...


[View Quote] > 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
>
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Andras
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Jun 19, 2006, 6:42pm

[View Quote] > After discussion with the Devteam, they have agreed to reinstate the "box"
> method versus the "Sphere" method for the visual view. The change should be
> in effect later today.
>
> May the scavenger hunt continue :-)
>
> Cryonics
>

Thank you!
That was a really generous solution by the company!

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Andras
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Jun 20, 2006, 7:19pm

Hi Folks,

I just wanted to warn you the newsgroup will have a few hiccups while the transition to the 4.1 universe is made for the authentication.
I'll try my best to minimize those mishaps!

Thanks for your understanding,
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Andras
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Jun 21, 2006, 6:00pm

The new authentication is in place so new AW members can access the newsgroups too :)
Beta testers please wait at least until Friday to get access to the Beta group!

Thank you for you patience,

[View Quote] Follow Up set to Community ng
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Andras
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Jun 24, 2006, 9:44pm

[View Quote] > Immigration Officer: Welcome to AW 4.1! The Cy Awards are postboned. Date
> will be announced. Thank you all for coming. (The servers hit a bandwidth
> limit, not in our range.) We hope to see you see again :-)
>
>
>
> Postboned....LMAO got tears from laughing here ...
>
>
>
> sweets
>
>
>
>


Didn't you ever made a typo??
Shame on you :(

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Andras
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Jul 10, 2006, 3:52am

<snip bloated list>
> Can consider that the proof that they are artificially increasing account
> numbers.
>

<rant>
Another example why I have trouble with your attitude.
Such a narrow minded person you are :)
</rant>

<explanation>
Every citizen creation action generates a new citizen number which is an incremented value (auto_increment type of variable in MySQL)
When a citizen number is deleted, the sequence is not changed, the new citnum will be greater than the last one by one.
There is a way of course to reassign the deleted citnum but why bother?
Example:
In AWEurope we have a web/bot/telco based citizen creation where one can use SMS (cell phone text messaging for folks in the US:) to get a new citizenship or renew it for 3,4,9 and 30 days.
(Very handy for those whose phone bill payed by their parents and has no credit card :) )
The script reserves the citizen number when the request comes in (creates a temporary citizenship) and finalizes it only after the payed SMS received.
In case of not confirmed request, this temporary citizenship is deleted leaving a hole within the citnum list.
</explanation>

Why on earth would AWI artificially inflate the cit number base?

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Andras
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Jul 13, 2006, 10:07pm

[View Quote] It just means nothing LNH :) Strike has too much bandwidth at his hand to waste .
Another "Eep hypothesis" :)

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Andras
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Jul 5, 2006, 1:46pm

[View Quote] > ooooooh....I want a MY awards also!
> I take it that it's a play on CY award which means CommunitY and MY means
> MaturitY?:)
>
>

Maturity and sweets - that is an oxymoron <sorry - I couldn't resist> :)

This whole post sounds like a child who did not get his/her candy :)

Thanks for the laugh, sweets!

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Andras
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Jul 5, 2006, 4:30pm

[View Quote] > LOL actually what started as a joke while doodling on my notepad, has turned
> out to be one nice looking object....funny how that happens sometimes
>
> sweets
>
>

Been there , done that .

I have several objects I made as a joke and turned out a useful creation :)

Keep up the good work!
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Andras
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Jul 17, 2006, 5:56pm

[View Quote] [View Quote] I have one word only: RAID

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Jul 12, 2006, 4:23am

[View Quote] The browser assumes the file is a jpeg one because it has no explicit extension.
It has nothing wrong with the escaped characters - they are passed properly.

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Andras
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Jul 11, 2006, 7:42am

AW texture/misc cache ras format viewer / recover lost textures from your OP.

Version 1.0.1 - you know what does that means :)
Masked textures looks weird but that is not really important.

http://www.andras.net/tools.html


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Andras
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Jul 12, 2006, 4:30am

[View Quote] > The only problem with that Andras is it seems to make it easier for those
> who want to do so to be able steal custom textures easier by simply going
> into the cache on their PC after visiting a world ?
>
> Paul
>

Nothing can prevent a thief to download the textures from the OP directly - they have the OP and the texture name in their cache anyway :(

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Andras
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Jul 22, 2006, 2:19pm

[View Quote] > Thanks. I messed around with all those texture mode settings but it didn't
> seem to make any difference on the bug.
> And while foreshorten is no longer supported it still does something (though
> prolly not intentionally) - cranks the lighting on an object to 100%. And I
> think Lit is default so doesn't need to be included. Not that any of that
> matters anyway, ambience is already set to 1.0 on the object.
>
> Gotta be something else wrong with it though.
>
> - Com

As Mauz stated - putting the texturemodes foreshorted explicitly removes all the default modes.

Use AddTextureMode Foreshorted though it is not supported any longer :)

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Andras
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Aug 2, 2006, 10:06am

[View Quote] > Figuring out something.
> If I never can think of something..
> Have AWI think of something..
>
> Otherwise... I don't know. hehe
>
>

I did not plan to create this tool to help the thieves but to help the community. I never released a cache to rwx program :)
Unfortunately the textures can be downloaded by anyone having access to a browser and having the cache directory in hand.
I would like to see some kind of obfuscation of the OP in the cache but that is a long shot (and the thieves can figure it out just like they do it now)

Several attempt I made to hide the OP behind some php script failed due to some silly firewalls (Norton comes to my mind at this moment) which thinks passing referer is a bad thing :(
The original MultiPath script was checking not only the Agent but the referer, so only the AW browser is allowed to get the content of the OP.

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Aug 2, 2006, 10:16am

[View Quote] > The email is from Vicky Mauk and I wish she would please stop sending me
> emails and she is impy nk ina aw. she just sent me 2 more after she said she
> took me off her email list. I dont know what her damn problem is but she
> better knock it off! i dont even know who that little witch is!. what a
> weirdo! she must get some kind of perverted satisfaction doing this.

Let me warn you about a few things:
1, Never open an email you are not sure about the sender.
2, Never use an email client which displays the email in those fancy form (called HTML <eg>)
3, Be aware that the sender can be infected by a virus which gets the email addresses harvested from his/her Address Book and those mails are claim they are from known source.

I do have my mail server which helps to weed out the bad plants but even that is not enough sometimes.
Always use "text only" emails and never use HTML. Never open ANY attachments you are not expecting to get!
Disappearing picture folders is a sure sign of a virus which can reach your machine only if you did not take the precautions above (and that list is really very short!!!)
Use a client side spam filter (POPFile <http://popfile.sourceforge.net/> or K9 <http://keir.net/k9.html> are good choices, I use them for all my email clients - and they are free), use a firewall which marks/removes attachments which are dangerous (I can go on for hundreds of lines to give more advices but I stop here)


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Andras
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Aug 2, 2006, 10:49am

[View Quote] > Well it seems that Skype was the culprit for the dissappearing folder and I
> did finally find the folder. for some unknown reason it went to program
> files. I just installed Skype a few days ago. I uninstalled it and my puter
> is running well again. But I wish that impy would quit emailing me. I dont
> know her nor do I ever want to know someone that does what she did.

I'm using Skype since its appearance and it never gave me any headache (of course I never accept any file sent to me through it:) and you know how paranoid I am <eg>

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