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Dec 15, 2003, 2:53pm

Hey, I've not been in AW for a long time (actually, I don't even have an
account any more, just newsgroups from a friend's account) but I used to do
a lot of bot coding in C/C++. Anyway, I just learned Python so I could embed
it in a platform I'm working on to make it programmable. I was wondering if
anyone had a version of the AW SDK for Python?

-j

Dec 18, 2003, 2:59pm

mmm, alright, i'll check it out. i gotta admit i don't actually know much at
all about python, but i found it looking for a scripting language i could
easily embed in C, and i've gotten excited about it. nice language.

-j

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Dec 17, 2003, 12:40pm

how can an avatar contain malicious code? the models arent executed, they're
read and then parsed. you're not going to get a virus from an rwx file...
but customizable avatars will allow for giant penises and naked chicks
(though the latter might be what AW needs to survive... sex sells.)

-j

Dec 18, 2003, 2:57pm

mmm, that's true, but i imagine it'd be easy to have a size filter... that's
much easier than a virus scanner. and, in fact, i believe the AW software is
capable of it anyways

-j

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Dec 17, 2003, 12:00pm

i had suggested this it must have been at least a year ago... thing is, a
worldowner can already do this, assuming competent bots (cant set backdrop,
but if what you need is a small world, just get a small world) and by
building it into the software, that sort of makes it something people should
do... when there's not really any reason to want
countries/continents/regions/... unless you have a specific reason for them
in your world. if you want a bot to do it and need help... im sure i could
figure something out... but reply to the ng, i didnt set my actual email
address...

-j

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Dec 21, 2003, 8:59pm

not even all that difficult... make an action line command "create matrix
foo" to multiply the objects matrix by the matrix named foo (sort of like
"create name") and then you could have "create rotate.." as normal to rotate
alone or use an optional attribute "create rotate ... group=foo" to have
that transformation applied to the matrix named foo. i like it too... maybe
we'll see it some day

-j

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Jan 8, 2004, 1:32pm

Yeah, I had wished for them myself at some point in the very distant past,
but as I got thinking about it more and more.. Why would you *really* want
mirrors in the first place? They're pretty, yes, but for the difficulty of
implementing reflections in a 3D engine that doesn't divide space into rooms
(an indoor engine)... there are other ways to get your stuff pretty..

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Jan 8, 2004, 1:35pm

Outlaw beer?! What is the world coming to (again)?? I thought AW was
supposed to be a community of geeks... :P

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Mar 6, 2004, 12:59pm

What's wrong with binding combinations where the first term is already used?
Check the list of bound combinations that begin with control, and before you
consider control to mean "run", check the state of those other keys... sorta
like double clicking, except I'm not 100% certain of the details of that so
I can't say it's exactly like double clicking.

-j

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Jan 22, 2004, 12:21pm

Yeah, I was reading GEB:EGB over the summer... let me tell you, that was one
spectacular book. Very thought provoking, sometimes a struggle (I skipped
the chapter on molecular biology... the theoretical programming was more
interesting) but overall quite fun. It also makes the second Matrix movie
make a lot more sense ;)
-j

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