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Mar 18, 2001, 5:57pm

That feature's already supported, jbell - you can enable avatar
teleportation or disable it at your discretion.

Mar 18, 2001, 10:25pm

Yes.

Mar 18, 2001, 10:26pm

You sound as if you wanted me to release it a long time ago - lol. I would
have, but I just didn't have enough time to debug it - maybe having an
experienced programmer testing wouldn't be such a bad idea?

Mar 25, 2001, 11:15am

LOL - more things to add and bugs to fix - see my latest post in reply
to brandon's post above.

Mar 25, 2001, 11:16am

Actually, that percentage thing is in my bot too - I disabled the menu
item because it doesn't work yet with teams - more bugs without time
to fix.

Mar 25, 2001, 11:14am

I wish I had the time to release it. Unfortunately, I've had to
concentrate on AWTeen more and more recently, and have had to put
these programs (I have seven from gatekeeping bots to the paintball
bot to the vote bot that I had wanted to release) on the back burner
to be continued during the summer.

All of the programs are finished, just not polished or debugged, so if
anyone would like to help out by debugging them, let me know.

Jun 21, 2003, 3:22pm

My E-Mail address is listed on my site at www.shoemakervillage.org, or just
use the address in this post :)

-Brant

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Jun 22, 2003, 4:17pm

Clarification: The Ultimate Paintball Bot will never use the DLL, becuase
it was programmed originally in 1999 when Grimm made OCXs. It would be far
too extensive to reprogram the application for the DLL version.

Demeter, however, was programmed originally by Grimble, who used the DLL
version, which was released just before Demeter's release.

-Brant

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Jun 26, 2003, 10:28am

20 minutes! The problem is that the DLL works completely differently than
the OCX in terms of multiple bots. You can't just use an array of DLL
"controls." If Ultimate Paintball only used one bot, then it wouldn't be
that much of a problem.

-Brant

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Jul 1, 2003, 5:35pm

Hmmm, I'll have to try that - still a LOT of work to update, but it might be
faster than writing an updated OCX as I described above :)

-Brant

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Jul 1, 2003, 5:34pm

That's a good idea - I'll have to write an OCX of this build to be used by
legacy programs - it will probably save myself and others a lot of time :)

-Brant

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Dec 10, 2003, 1:04am

Hi,

I would have responded to this earlier, but unfortunately I spent sixteen
hours over the past two days finishing four assignments, one of which was,
strangely enough, as KAH predicted, attempting to create a basic rule-based
game playing AI robot in PROLOG.

As to the code, Grimble is such a neat programmer that there's so many
functions and sub-functions in that code that it wouldn't make any sense to
you if I copied just that one routine.

-Brant

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Apr 11, 2001, 9:19pm

I'd like to announce the open beta release of the 2000 Cy-Award winning
Ultimate Paintball, located at
http://www.shoemakervillage.org/programs.html. The application had been in
a closed beta format for several months. Please note that at the current
time, the program (as it is a beta version) may contain bugs, and should be
tested only by experienced users.

More importantly, the help files for this program were written on June 13,
2000 and are badly in need of being updated. As I must concentrate on the
Gulakon RPG, the fixing of bugs in this and other programs, and the
reconstruction of AWTeen, I have little time to devote to this important
task. Therefore, I hope that someone who has a good background in English
as well as a little technical knowledge will contact me and volunteer to
write these help files. The task would only take a few hours, and would be
greatly appreciated by myself and others who have downloaded the program.

Some of the features in version 2.21 include:

-Support for up to 255 worlds simultaneously with synchronized statistics
-Grenades and frenzy powerups, with the option to set a certain number of
each type of powerup or disable either completely
-Teleport or eject users when shot, and set the teleport location to
wherever you choose, or eject users with a 2.2 browser while teleporting 3.1
users
-Add and remove bots dynamically, even in the same world
-Specify up to 15 bosses who can use special commands to control the bot
in-world
-Keep statistics of kills, deaths, and kill-to-death ratios, as well as
individual standings
-Enable team warfare, and keep statistics of teams, including kills, deaths,
and ratios, as well as team standings
-Create and join teams at will, and leave then when required
-Set specific times to start and end a match, and count down until a match
ends
-Enable a phone bot to talk between worlds in the network, or disable it
whenever needed
-Eject bots on the playing field and prevent cheating with built-in features
if necessary
-Eject cheaters or troublemakers from all worlds in one click
-Create a bad words list to keep chat clean
-Create and clean up skull objects in one or all worlds
-Specify the grenade, frenzy, and skull objects
-View all of the current players and their scores instantly on the console
or by whispering "score", "deaths", or "ratios" to the bots
-Save and load different bot, scoring, and team configurations quickly and
easily
-Never download the zip file again and upgrade instantly with the Shoemaker
Village Upgrade Utility

Apr 12, 2001, 12:40pm

As an extra incentive, I will host a world or bot without charge for anyone
who is willing to donate their time toward creating these help files.
E-mail awteen at shoemakervillage.org.

Jan 29, 2004, 11:45pm

That last one leaves open a lot of interesting possibilities :)

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Feb 7, 2004, 1:10pm

Well, the huge limitation here, and the reason why I won't be using the
toolbar, is that there's no way to trigger the SDK_Event command by mapping
it to a key.

If that were possible, FPS games could be programmed without the limitation
of only being able to click on avatars and objects. In my opinion, this
would be a huge achievement.

-Brant

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Feb 9, 2004, 6:41pm

That's why I removed that module from the website :) This is great that
everyone's going open source so people won't keep relying on my code alone
so heavily - when it's open source, you can fix it :) The following
function is the one that I've actually been using recently. However, your
function seems to have fewer lines, but such a function is used so
infrequently that it's probably not worth comparing the two, as long as they
work correctly.

Of course, you can't test this function, because the Location class is not
yet available (someday I'll get around to that, as soon as I'm finished with
wasting hours implementing microinstructions on 1983 MIPS machines). Still,
I'd be interested if anyone feels like comparing the two and seeing if one
has some unforseen error that could cause problems down the line :)

-Brant

-----------------------------------

Public Function coordinates(ByVal stringToProcess As String) As Location
Dim returnValue as New Location(0,0,0,0,0,0)
Dim parts(3) As String, counter As Byte, position As Double,
coordinateMeasure As Integer
Dim northWest As Boolean

returnValue.Tilt = 0.0
returnValue.Roll = 0.0 'These values are irrelevant for avatar
locations

parts = Split(stringToProcess) 'Split string by spaces

For counter = 0 To parts.GetUpperBound(0)
parts(counter) = parts(counter).ToLower()

Next

position = InStr(parts(0), "s")
northWest = (position = 0.0)
If northWest Then position = InStr(parts(0), "n")
coordinateMeasure = CDbl(Left(parts(0), position)) * 1000
returnValue.Z = IIf(northWest, -coordinateMeasure,
coordinateMeasure)

position = InStr(parts(1), "e")
northWest = (position = 0.0)
If northWest Then position = InStr(parts(1), "w")
coordinateMeasure = CDbl(Left(parts(1), position)) * 1000
returnValue.X = IIf(northWest, -coordinateMeasure,
coordinateMeasure)

If parts.GetUpperBound(0) < 2 Then
returnValue.YAW = 0.0
returnValue.Y = 0.0
coordinates = returnValue
Exit Function
End If

position = InStr(parts(2), "a")
If position = 0 Then
returnValue.YAW = CDbl(parts(2))
coordinates = returnValue
Exit Function

End If

returnValue.Y = cDbl(Left(parts(2), position)) * 1000

If parts.GetUpperBound(0) < 3 Then
returnValue.YAW = 0.0
coordinates = returnValue
Exit Function
End If

returnValue.YAW = cDbl(parts(3))
coordinates = returnValue

End Function

-----------------------------

Feb 9, 2004, 9:05pm

Another thing about this code that may or may not be a problem is that it
uses the Val() function. I myself made the mistake of using that function
extensively in programs up until recently.

The problem with that function is that it won't pay attention to
internationalization. In some countries, the decimal point is replaced with
a comma, so that in those countries "975,5n 975,5e 0.5a 0" would register an
error with the Val() function.

This problem can be fixed by using conversion functions such as CInt() or
CSng().

-Brant

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Feb 9, 2004, 7:21pm

Hi all,

After looking through the documentation on the 3.5 toolbar functions at
www.activeworlds.com/help/aw35, it seems to me that there's an opportunity
here to set a standard for using sdk_event commands before the SDK is
released and bot developers begin developing toolbars. If you're not sure
what this command is, be sure to check up on the documentation.

The event specifies a "message id," upon which a bot performs a specific
function. The id is any number between 0 and 2^15-1. You can probably
start to see the problem: everybody who develops a bot that wants to use a
toolbar will use message id's 0, 1, 2, etc. That works fine for toolbars
put out by the developers themselves, but what if someone is starting a new
world that wants to run a ChatRelayBot at the same time as a Magsbot? If
both assign an important function to id_number zero, then when the
ChatRelayBot is commanded, the Magsbot will perform an unrelated action.

Imagine trying to change your chat color when the Magsbot interprets your
button click as a command to delete your house!

This problem can be easily solved by someone maintaining a simple registry
for sdk_event "message id's. " I doubt that any time soon AW's bot
developers will find a way to assign commands to all 32767 id's, so for the
time being, each command can be assigned a unique id. For example, a
Xelagot could use sdk_event message_id's 0 to 15, while a paintball bot
could use message_id's 16 to 25, and so on. This registry could be
maintained on a simple HTML page where each bot is listed along with its
assigned "id range." If the coordinator of this list is thourough enough,
then toolbar developers can simply look at that page and incorporate the
commands they would like to use in their new toolbars. Perhaps a set of
"standard" actions could also be assigned a "reserved" set of id's; for
example, id 200 could be reserved as a "teleport user to GZ" command for all
bots that want to support it.

Note that the goal here wouldn't be enforcement of these id's - if someone
wants to run a bot that's non-compliant in his or her world, then that's his
or her business to explain to users that "standard" toolbars wouldn't work
correctly in that world.

Perhaps someone (or a group of people) would be interested in taking up this
project?

Apr 2, 2004, 12:54am

Wasn't there a bot that was adapted by HamFon or so in the late 90s that
used ELIZA to attempt to hold a conversation with a user? I wonder where
that bot went....

-Brant

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Apr 9, 2004, 5:12pm

Visual Basic's "Date" class has a concept of "Ticks," where it counts the
number of 100 nanosecond increments since something like January 1, 0001
CE - even before the gregorian calendar was in use.

I'm sure that by dividing by the appropriate number to convert from
nanoseconds to seconds and by subtracting the value for January 1, 1970 you
could write a class that inherits from the Date class and provides a
conversion function to SDK/C++ format.

Take a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemdatetimeclasstickstopic.asp.
It's the more difficult way to do things, but you only have to write it
once, and then you use it over and over...
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Jan 4, 2005, 12:53am

Hi,

Since many of my bots are becoming outdated, I have decided to release
the entire codebase for everything that's listed on shoemakervillage.org
(and for some things that aren't). The following bots will now be under
the GPL:

-Ultimate Paintball
-Demeter
-Vote Bot
-Activeworlds Utility
-AWTeen Inauguration Day slideshow producer
-Thor
-Thor 2 (sun position calculator and time of day portion)
-AW SDK Functions 2.bas and bot classes

Some of the more minor projects will also be made available eventually.

Tony M is handling the conversion and is in the process of setting up a
code management system, so direct any questions to him. Hopefully some
bot programmers will jump onboard and help to improve these projects.

Keep watching here for an announcement once Tony M makes the code available!

-Brant

Apr 16, 2001, 11:07am

Someone made a bingobot that was running in NewYork about two weeks ago. I
believe her name is Xena, and she's selling it for $100.

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Apr 17, 2001, 10:41pm

I get hundreds of telegrams per day saying things like "yes", "?", "lol",
"it's here", "when is it?", etc. - do what I did with awteen - post a
message saying that telegrams won't be accepted anymore, and then only reply
to people over E-mails (that have the ENTIRE question included) - it's
worked for me, lol.

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Apr 22, 2001, 12:07am

I taught myself VB, and never read a single book, and I hope that I
don't produce trash...

Apr 22, 2001, 12:15am

I'm pleased to announce that the Shoemaker Village Vote Bot is now
available for those who were asking about the date of its re-release.
The bug in the code had originated from the use of the AwAvatarName
attribute in the Chat event, and as most know the AwAvatarName
attribute isn't updated in the Chat event, so the program looked up
the citizen number of the wrong name and thought that that person had
voted already.

The re-released bot is available at
www.shoemakervillage.org/programs.html.

To solve the problem, I created two in-depth avatar classes, which
allow a programmer to keep a session list of all avatars in a scene
(with all their attributes) with three lines of code (in the avadd,
avchange, and avdelete functions), in addition to automating commonly
used functions (searching the list, teleporing and ejecting users,
etc). I plan to release these classes and some modules that have
functions that parse location strings for the coordinates, look up
error codes with intelligent messages, make a worlds list like in the
AW browser, etc. They should be available on the site within two days
(as soon as I write the help files) for those VB programmers looking
to get a head start on their projects.

Apr 23, 2001, 5:59pm

I fixed the citnum bug myself by eliminating the problematic citizen
number lookups and writing a class to make future development easier.

May 4, 2001, 5:48pm

I made a similar post to one of the other newsgroups: Commie and Xena
have developed a BingoBot, which after inquiry they said they would be
selling for $100 per license. Contact them if you're interested.

May 11, 2001, 11:38pm

If perchance, Tony didn't get you the code, it's pretty simple. Just
say something like:

Text1.SelStart = Len(Text1.Text)

The SelStart property sets the starting point of the selected text in
the text box, or the cursor position if no text is selected. The code
above moves the cursor to the last letter of the text box.

May 12, 2001, 2:20pm

The best (and cheapest) book is the MSDN library that comes with VB.
I was able to teach myself VB simply by following the tutorial in the
help files. I would suggest that those who are looking for a way to
learn VB quickly take a look at the help files there - they're very
useful.

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