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Sep 29, 2002, 2:28pm

One way to do it if you click on the object - then the SDK will receive all the info you can identify your object. Without doing that - you have to do at least an enumeration on the cell you are talking about.

Andras

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Oct 13, 2002, 11:12am

Dem2RWX can do it with a fully black bmp picture.
Andras
http://andras.net/modular.html


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Oct 13, 2002, 6:59pm

After you built with terragen you have to change the Vertical Scaling to your taste and use the Vertical Offset to move it under ground.
To make it bigger - just select a larger world (P200) or change the bound rectangle values. Terrain can extend way beyond your world's limit!

HTH,
Andras


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Oct 13, 2002, 10:53pm

I'm glad you like it. I apologize I did not mention XelaGot but I am not familiar with it. I know XelaG's bots are extremely powerful!

Andras


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Dec 8, 2002, 10:46pm

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Jan 10, 2003, 7:31pm

[View Quote] http://andras.net/tools.html

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Jan 11, 2003, 7:34am

[View Quote] <snip>

>
> A full list of what's new along with updated documentation is available at
> http://www.shoemakervillage.org/help/dwhatsnew118.html, while detailed
> technical information is available at
> http://www.shoemakervillage.org/release.html.
<snip>

After a long and heated debate with Brant, I have no other choice but warn the community about the behavior of Brant's programs.
His programs which are sharing the same splash screen "calls home" without the user's approval. Brant has a "Privacy policy" posted on his "General Info" page wich is not linked directly from the pages he mentioned above ( http://www.shoemakervillage.org/programs.html ). Read it and decide yourself if it makes you comfortable.

Here is my last post regarding to this issue. More can be read at news://news.andras.net/AW.VillageBeta newsgroup under the thread: [demeter] Security problem .

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [demeter] Security problem
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:25:20 +0100
From: Andras Sarkozy <andras at andras.net>
Newsgroups: AW.VillageBeta
References: <3e15cef8$1 at ns.storage.co.hu>


Hey folks - maybe this issue requires a clarification:

Imagine what Brant can do with your priv password! That is a caretaker account, so it puts your world into his merci!
He is clearly doesn't want to cut this option from himself (claiming it would take forever to change the code and oh yes - posting some lame privacy statement on his website!) - maybe that is the real reason he is so eager NOT to remove the call home feature?
It is true - there are spywares and all of us aware of it (and the clever ones never let them run on their machine) but I don't see ANY reason a silly bot calling home!!!
Disagree? Read again the first paragraph! Are you willing to lose everything in your world? Are you prepared to some vandalism? What if you can't access your world any longer? Who can make you sure he won't do that? His words? Well,,,,, just think about it!
I'm not accusing Brant any of that but the opportunity is there and we saw black sheeps in the past, didn't we?
If I want to update my program, I either check manually the site it supports it or I give temporary access the program explicitly (this is the so called "Opt-In" feature), so it can check itself.
I'm very disappointed that a really talented programmer (Brant) can't see the difference.

On my side - I finished with my arguments. If the program is released as it is - I'll warn the community about that and I'm standing firm behind my policy. I'm sorry to blackmail Brant, but if the security issue is not solved I have no other choice.


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Andras
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Feb 3, 2003, 8:07am

[View Quote] You have no abitlity to upload your registry to AW's world hosting AFAIK so you can't implement registry on a world hosted by AW neither can you connect with the admin tool.

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Feb 4, 2003, 12:28pm

[View Quote] You are not loosing objects if they are encroaching with the new world server but you'll have tremendous problems with the BI.


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Feb 21, 2003, 8:17pm

[View Quote] YASBB does it. It does survey, it builds with offset (and deletes too if you need that feature)

http://andras.net/tools.html#YASBB

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Feb 24, 2003, 1:27pm

[View Quote] Is the word loyalty rings a bell?

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Feb 28, 2003, 8:28pm

[View Quote] Ops sorry, I missed your post. As I explained to Strike in private email:
It is like you don't start to create your own AW browser or the spades bot or Xelagot. It is made by a respected programmer who did a good job on it. Why would anyone reinvent the wheel?
Especially since AW is charging for the bingobot if you want to rent one .

I call it a loyalty to the fellow programmer and to AW - maybe a wrong choice of the wording.


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Andras
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Mar 14, 2003, 12:52pm

Hi folks,

I added a new feature to the YASBB (Yet Another Survey Build Bot):
It can survey terrains now. The result can be saved as a BMP or as a Terragen file for further processing (preferably in Dem2RWX:).

Enjoy,

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Andras
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Mar 15, 2003, 3:21am

[View Quote] Darned Mozilla (1.3b beta) - it deleted the webpage after composing it again :(
The page is back - thanks to Hal9000.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
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Andras
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Mar 15, 2003, 1:45pm

[View Quote] Brief is misses the convenience to post from the edit window :) Actualy I'm not good in HTML, so I let mozilla take care of the quirks there!
Actually - I'm not good in webpage design either but ... someone have to put that page up!!!

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Andras
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Mar 25, 2003, 4:05am

[View Quote] <snip>
Unfortunately neither of us wrote the RWXMod. The author, Dataman, lost the sourcecode of the program and he is not willing to work on it any more.
You have to convert the textures to BMP and store it in the folder "textures" on the same level your RWX files are (or edit the options to specify the texture path).
Several new RWX files won't play in RWXMod due to the new "pseudo" RWX commands introduced by AW (if they are not prefixed with #! character sequence) causing the RWXMod just simply crash :(



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Andras
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Apr 16, 2003, 9:31pm

[View Quote] > Are there any bots that will make randomly generated terrain for you (but so
> it looks natural)?
>
>

Use Terragen to generate the terrain and Dem2RWX will build it for you. (both programs are free :)

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
http://andras.net/modular.html


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Apr 18, 2003, 12:05pm

[View Quote] > heh, i need a truly random generating one too, cus well, im really not the
> artistic type, sos dem2rwx doesnt really help me
>
>

Terragen can generate it for you.
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

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Andras
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May 24, 2003, 7:51am

Bug fixes: Upgraded to SDK build 31 to accomodate 3.4 world servers.
New features: One can change the caretaker list and the registry and can start/stop the world from the GUI. To change any values you have to check the "Enable Change" checkbox first.

Enjoy
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Jun 3, 2003, 5:29am

- V 1.2.1.14
- Added zip feature to conserve storage space
- Added progress indicator


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

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Andras
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Jun 25, 2003, 8:23am

[View Quote] 2) http://andras.net/tools.html#YASBB


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Jul 14, 2003, 12:40am

[View Quote] > Sorry about the crossposting, but really need help, not sure where to put it
> :) so put it in both bots and sdk! :)
> ____________________________________________
>
> hey, im having this problem with c++, problem is hard to explain, but it
<snip>

try the following syntax:
std::cin.get(PPW,25) >> PPW;


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Andras
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Jul 14, 2003, 3:48pm

[View Quote] > hey, i need help breaking up strings in c++, anyone know how to? im making a
> bot, that changes the avatars of tourists when they say /avatar # (where #
> is the avatar number), how do i get the # as a int? i looked throughtout my
> c++ book but couldnt find it anywhere! >_<
>
> thanx, and sorry for being such a n00b :)
> -SWE
>
>

char *l, *chat;
int val;

l=strtok(chat," \t,"); // points to the /avatar and replaces the " " (or comma or tab) with the NULL character
l=strtok(NULL," \n"); // points to the number and replaces the " " (or comma or tab or newline) with the NULL character
// effectively l will hold only the second token in the chat line
val=atoi(l);


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Syntax

#include <string.h>
char *strtok(char *s1, const char *s2);

Description

Searches one string for tokens, which are separated by delimiters defined in a second string.
strtok considers the string s1 to consist of a sequence of zero or more text tokens, separated by spans of one or more characters from the separator string s2.
The first call to strtok returns a pointer to the first character of the first token in s1 and writes a null character into s1 immediately following the returned token. Subsequent calls with null for the first argument will work through the string s1 in this way, until no tokens remain.
The separator string, s2, can be different from call to call.

Note: Calls to strtok cannot be nested with a function call that also uses strtok. Doing so will causes an endless loop.

Return Value

strtok returns a pointer to the token found in s1. A NULL pointer is returned when there are no more tokens.
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Andras
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Aug 7, 2003, 12:59am

[View Quote] > Does anyone know why when i wipe the world with Xelagot the whole world
> poofs off the face of the earth for about 10 min?
>
>

Wiping the world (erasing the database) causes the world server not to respond for any request for a long time if the database was large. The same can happen when deleting large terrain.
I experimented this problem several times during the last 4 years <I did not have a large enough database before :)>
The same problem happens if a bot issues to much request to the server in a short period of time (creating terrain, mass building, etc).


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Andras
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Aug 8, 2003, 1:20pm

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>
> That would explain why 50 people at a New Year's Eve party could bring down
> the server, especially if they're all talking at once.
>

naww - that wouldn't bring the server down - maybe congest the pipe it is connected. I had 80 users clicking and chatting like crazy for 36 hours on a P2 300MHz with not a single hickup.
OTOH I can bring down the server with a single bot (if it is on the LAN!) simply building too fast.
The problem lies on the database management IMHO.

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Aug 8, 2003, 7:32pm

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> That's odd. My server is a Dell PowerEdge PIII 800Mhz (running Red Hat Linux
> 7.2, what OS are you using?). So if that's the case then it should have
> plenty of processing power.

Well,,,, I had problem with the Linux version, so I run that particular event on a w2k machine. Linux crashed the same way than the original post claimed, so I just switched to the windows version.

>
> What bot do you use to do this? Approximitly how fast do you have to build?
> I'd like to be able to reproduce this with a linux test machine I have on my
> LAN.

I use DEM2Rwx bot to create terrain (LARGE ones!) and sometimes when I used it to build (or use YASBB to build) it caused the same problem.
They can be found on my website: http://www.andras.net

>
>
> This would open up the doors to many neat web applications, with PHP, PERL
> and other programing languages that can interface with MySQL.
>

That would be nice but the server uses C-Tree for database handling (and that reflects to Baron Sweetman's post too).

> -Jeremy
>
>


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Andras
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Aug 19, 2003, 9:00pm

[View Quote] > GAHHHHHHHH SOS!!!
>
> I have a problem, and its a big bloody problem! Brants PB bot is attacking
> VB and absolutly everything made from it on my PC! When I try to load up the
> VB IDE It loads up 5 instances of the PB bot installer, when I shut down a
> debug, it loads up an instance of the PB bot installer, whenever the hell, I
> even load a compiled VB executable Ive made... PB bot attacks the exe and
> loads up 3 or 4 instances of the installer!!!!
>
> Gahhh I can't get rid of the thing!!! Hey I wouldent mind if it was a decent
> program installer but its not! Anyone got any idea how to fix this?
>
> - Mark
>
>

Remove VB and install it again. Most likely Brant's little toy is tinkering with VB library/dll/whatever VB uses.

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Andras
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Aug 23, 2003, 5:10am

[View Quote] >
> Yeah, all OS' have exploits... name one that has as many as Windows that
> are exploited minutely.
>
>

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013

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Aug 24, 2003, 7:36pm

[View Quote] > At the request of Eigna, I have made a webpage for basics of "Saving Your
> Builds" and "Moving Build to New Area", as projects in Xelagot (by XelaG).
> This is not to serve as documentation that you can and do receive from the
> Xelagot Official Site, which I do include the link to on my page. Its just
> a simplified docs for novices. You can find them at my site at:
> http://www.afantasy.us/xelagot.html
>
> Please feel free to check out the website too. Lightwave's avatars, and of
> course any and all of our resources for Activeworlds.
>
> Sexy Eyes
>

Excellent job! I wish someone would do the same with my bots :)

Thank you!

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Andras
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Sep 14, 2003, 5:41am

[View Quote] > is there a bot that makes atdumps of 3.4 worlds that are compatible to the
> admin tool atdumps ?
>
>

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

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