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Jul 21, 2002, 4:09am

good idea, you could just make a setting to block all tgrams sent to
multiple users. To avoid accidentally blocking a tgram that was just meant
for a few people and wasn't spam, though, you might want to have a setting
that made it so that only msgs sent to 'X' number of people or more would be
blocked. That way you can set that to like 15 or 20 and not worry about
getting much spam at all but at the same time get things from people that
are mass-tgraming but not spamming (something you might actually want to
read :-P).

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Jul 21, 2002, 1:59am

Interesting name, isn't it? Anyway, it's a new idea I came up with while
posting a reply to Strike Rapier's "Extended Viewing Range" topic. What it
would be would be a mode in which it only searches for objects within
viewing range once. So any change in building would not be downloaded by
your client and actually make the Active Worlds Browser much faster since
it's not searching for new objects that may have been placed by people while
you are exploring. It would be very useful for when you're looking at
historical builds which won't be changed (or at least not while you're
looking at them) or just any area that you may feel like exploring and don't
need to see any objects being placed down.

Also, the Active Worlds Browser currently (I think) compares what's in it's
cache with what the world server has so the speed of your cache really isn't
as fast as it could be. It is only the cache of models and textures but not
the landscape. It would be a good feature if you could force the browser to
use what's in it's cache without comparing it to the world server. And if it
doesn't cache landscape now, it most certainly should!

Another way of making it faster for some worlds would be to download the
objects, textures, terrain, and placement of them all before going into the
world. When you're playing Quake or Unreal Tournament online and you go to a
game that is using a map you don't have, it downloads all of the information
before letting you in. It would be helpful in Gaming worlds where speed is a
must and the world is small (so that the download doesn't last for weeks!
:-P).

Now just a little thing to add to the wishlist which doesn't really have
anything to do with what I said above. It would be cool if I could get all
the information of a person just by putting my mouse over his/her name in my
contacts list or in the chat for a moment. Then a little box would open up
telling me the citizen number, coords the person is at, and any other small
bit of information that could be enetered into your settings such as age,
gender, or interests.

I did enough yapping for today. Let me know what you think.

-Dion

Jul 21, 2002, 4:05am

> I'm not waiting on a download BEFORE I can chat. I usually enter
> worlds with the most users to chat with, I don't really care for
> exploring personally.

It would be an option. You could go in and bypass the world's settings that
recommend you download before entering and you would be able to chat while
you downloaded, you just wouldn't be able to see the world. But if you
bypassed it, you'd just be as slow as usual. :-P

Jul 22, 2002, 2:47pm

> AW already DOES cache everything and only "compares" it with the object
server if the object refresh limit has been reached.
>
So I assume it's the RWX Rendering that is slowing everything. AW needs to
support a new and faster 3D model format.

Jul 22, 2002, 3:21pm

put bluntly you are saying: RWX is fast, AW is slow?

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Jul 22, 2002, 11:52pm

I think there should be a feature to allow you to let everyone but a
selected few do something. So you could give build to everyone but by
putting a '-' in front of their citizen number, it would disallow them from
building. Could be pretty useful.

Jul 24, 2002, 2:00am

I'm sure they do.

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Jul 25, 2002, 6:38pm

I'm sure making a bot to do this would be easy but it'd be much simpler as a
feature of the world rights.

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Jul 29, 2002, 1:36pm

It's better that way, allows for a lot more configuration.

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Jul 24, 2002, 4:20pm

it wouldn't take much work at all. just a little textbox for you to put in
the name of the file to be used for that world's avatars.dat

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Jul 24, 2002, 8:33pm

I think at least simple vertical and horizontal collision detection with
moving objects should be pretty simple.

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Jul 29, 2002, 1:33pm

He's got a point. Rather than changing the terrain light settings, the light
settings of other objects in the world need to be changed to match.

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Jul 29, 2002, 1:47pm

It would be useful if there could be certain variables in the WM like the
avatar's name, citizen number, etc. Just a few things that would be useful
at welcoming people to the world. :-)

Jul 29, 2002, 1:47pm

Oh, and also an option to disable the WM. That way I can just make my bot do
the WM. :-)

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Jul 30, 2002, 12:06am

Welcome Message is a long thing. Normally I would type it out but I woke up
at 6 this morning and drove 3 hours after being on a weekend vacation at the
beach so I'm just a bit tired. *snore*

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Jul 30, 2002, 12:44pm

should be! :-P

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Jul 31, 2002, 4:53pm

I think this should be automatically added upon installation of Active
Worlds so that noone needs to manually add this sort of thing. :-)

Aug 1, 2002, 3:50am

it didn't for me. I had to manually add the AWT extension.

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Aug 2, 2002, 4:10pm

You'd have to create your own way of rendering the RWX files based on
querying the area and the distance between the bot and the object. That
would be one hell of a bot!

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Aug 2, 2002, 6:15pm

Hey, if you can make a bot that can see in AW, I'm sure tons of people could
use that. That would be awesome, even if it can't view cob objects. Most
places don't use cob anyway, I've found AW to have quite a few issues with
COB formatted objects.

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Aug 2, 2002, 6:19pm

Unfortunately, it's always random. Even if you have a database, multiple TVs
refreshing at different times will screw it up.

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Aug 2, 2002, 10:27pm

If you ever do it, take a couple screenshots, I would love to see it. :-)

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Aug 3, 2002, 1:46am

Could you explain all of it? I can't seem to see how it wouldn't be random.

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Aug 3, 2002, 5:57am

Oh, cool! :-D
Now I don't even know why I didn't understand it... LOL :-P
Thanks for that :-)

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Aug 19, 2002, 8:05pm

Would you please stop stereotyping all people from AWTeen as being immature
and disrespectful? Not all people who go to AWTeen what you stereotype them
as.

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Aug 2, 2002, 4:01am

double-clicking on the name in the contacts should bring up the telegram
box.

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Aug 2, 2002, 6:11pm

I meant it should, but it doesn't. :-P

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Aug 2, 2002, 6:12pm

Nah, that's a pain to confirm, then you just start confirming everything.
Maybe it should ask for a confirmation to change your avatar or walk
forward. :-P

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Aug 6, 2002, 1:59am

LOL :-D

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Aug 2, 2002, 4:12pm

Bleh, there's Windows Media Player and Winamp for this sort of thing.

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