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Nov 29, 2002, 6:16pm

"chazrad" <petrossadeletethis at msn.com> wrote in
news:Xns92D55DE821A4Epetrossa at 64.94.241.201:

> Well, that's actually exactly what i meant by making it visible, if it's
> visible you can whisper with it. I dont care if you can see it really as
> long as you can whisper to it. Chatting it can do with console messages.
> But if you have an agechecking bot it would be nice if you could whisper
> your age, amongst other things. A global bot should be visible globally
> else it's half work in my view.

I agree. If nothing else, it should be made an option to have it be
detectable in the entire world. Perhaps it would require a bit of rewriting
to allow for avatars beyond the usual 200m hearing range, but it'd be worth
it.

KAH

Nov 30, 2002, 2:12pm

"chazrad" <petrossadeletethis at msn.com> wrote in
news:Xns92D5EE33BD382petrossa at 64.94.241.201:

> Well wouldnt have to be an avatar hearing range, if just they put the
> bots name in the whisperbox i don't care about the avatar 200 mtr range.
> I see no programtechnical reason why AWserver cant display global bot
> names in the whisperbox, if the bot can detect all events it can also
> hear whispers globally IMHO.

Now it's set up to ignore everything beyond 200m, so if the server
suddently came up with an AW_AVATAR_ADD for an av outside hearing range it
would confuse the browser.

KAH

Dec 1, 2002, 2:20pm

"chazrad" <petrossadeletethis at msn.com> wrote in
news:Xns92D761A11157Apetrossa at 64.94.241.201:

> i mean: not to generate an avataradd event, or any avatarevent for that
> matter , but just add the global bots name to the whisper box of the
> browser. circumvent all events, just allow the bot to hear whispers, the
> same way it can hear global chat without generating avatar events. The
> avatarevent itself can then be generated when it comes in range.

But the AVATAR_ADD is needed to add it to the whisper list, that's what I
meant.

KAH

Dec 26, 2002, 3:57pm

"strike rapier" <strike at rapiercom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
news:3e0a3e4e at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Might just as well have a CPP bot on a CT PPW

Yeah, but his idea was to use a web page to let you in (or something like
that). It's already possible, check out the AWSDK PHP extension 9 9 9 wrote
a year back (build 22):
http://www.grimmsoft.com/aw/php/

KAH

Dec 27, 2002, 2:37pm

"ryan jacob" <ryan_jacob at hotmail.com> wrote in
news:3e0b5a29$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> I don't see how simple hardware settings could be a breach of privacy
> provided personal details like IP address, etc. are not provided.
> Anonymous user statistics never hurt anyone.

You do realise that your IP is always sent to any host you connect to? And
that it wouldn't work if it wasn't?

KAH

Dec 27, 2002, 2:40pm

"john" <johnf_the_great at hotmail.com> wrote in
news:3e0c7e0a at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Has anyone else noticed that the AWORLD.exe is forever getting
> smaller? A while ago it was over 1mb and although they implement more
> features, it still manages to decrease in size. Do aw sacrifice the
> un-bugginess of the program for size??

They're probably delegating more work to the programs that support AW (like
RW3). That might well be to get less bugs and more readable code.

KAH

Dec 27, 2002, 2:41pm

"kah" <kah at kahnews.cjb.net> wrote in
news:Xns92F1B3F5781BCkahatkahnewsdotcjbdo at 64.94.241.201:

> They're probably delegating more work to the programs that support AW
> (like RW3). That might well be to get less bugs and more readable
> code.

I forgot to mention that they're crypting the executeable now, they
probably compact it at the same time.

KAH

Dec 28, 2002, 3:09pm

"andras" <andras at andras.net> wrote in news:3e0c9a79$1
at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> The main reason of the code size decrease is the reintroduced dll-s :)

That's what I said :-D

KAH

Dec 29, 2002, 7:57pm

"john" <johnf_the_great at hotmail.com> wrote in
news:3e0ee6c4 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> I wish that aw would, before finishing 3.4, read through the
> newsgroups, take four of the most popular (and not-too-hard-to
> implement) and add then add it to 3.4.
>
> I hardly ever see anything wished for here coming up in the AW
> software:
>
> Fly & Shift to be rights
> A bit to move along with objects for trams, cars, trains, etc.. and
> lifts. Many others
>
>
> Still, it is as if AW perfer to do what THEY WANT rather than what the
> user wants... remember "the customer is always right".... lol.

No! No! And NOOOOO! They're *way* behind their release schedule, don't even
THINK of asking them to add more features before releasing 3.4!

KAH

Jan 18, 2003, 2:43pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at techie.com> wrote in
news:3e28d7a3 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Je voudrais vous souhaiter un 13ème anniversaire heureux de votre
> naissance, Jacob. :)

Now you're talking Jacob-lingo in French, dude ;-)) It's not too bad until
"de votre naissance" (though not correctly built).

KAH

Jan 20, 2003, 8:27pm

"strike rapier" <strike at rapiercom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
news:3e2c736b at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Always a paradox that... People claim they can live forever.. but the uni
> wont last forever?

Why not?

KAH

Feb 24, 2003, 10:02pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at usa.net> wrote in
news:3e5a0198 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> 10,000 what?

10k posts in this newsgroup. Thanks to post deletions and reindexes the
post shows up as #56559, though.

KAH

Feb 26, 2003, 2:08pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at usa.net> wrote in
news:3e5ba7c6 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Interesting. I don't see either of those numbers anywhere. No wonder
> I didn't know 10,000 what. Hehe.

I just know it because my newsreader shows an article count in the group
list. It also shows the article number next to each header

KAH

Feb 27, 2003, 10:24am

I wish they'd work a bit on the news server, it's very unstable and keeps
dropping my connection when I'm in the middle of reading an article. It's
annoying having to wait for a new connection, it's not like this is a large
USENET server with 20k groups and 500 concurrent connections either.

KAH

Feb 28, 2003, 11:23am

"dlp anne" <anne at dreamlandpark.com> wrote in
news:3e5f4ec6 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> I never get dropped from the AW NG's
> Nor anything else I log into, must be your connection settings or
> e-mail settings.
>
> I know with my computer in its connection settings there is an option
> to disconnect when the connection is no longer needed.
> And in the email settings for disconnect after sending/receiving.
> Both these options can be turned on or off.

In that case you're lucky :-)) I know for a fact it's no setting, as I
often get disconnected right in the middle of downloading an article. The
server is generally slow anyway. All the other servers I use keep my
connection unless I idle for a long time, except my ISP's USENET servers if
they feel like being crashy.

KAH

Mar 1, 2003, 1:02pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at usa.net> wrote in
news:3e607441$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Well, if you write a litter to Criterion Software, asking them to make
> a Linux version of RenderWare, perhaps that wish may eventually become
> a reality. :)

A litter? LOL
Would be the right way to treat Criterion, RW3 isn't all that good. Since
AWI doesn't mind incredible licensing fees, why don't they go for something
from iD Soft? They're OGL and Linux fans.

KAH

Mar 3, 2003, 3:27pm

"mix master" <2200 at bellsouth.net> wrote in
news:3e625b5a at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> unfortunately the aw_3d window as a browser is unstable, lots of times
> when i try to close it, the browser messes up and i have to ctrl alt
> delete it, and then restart it.

On my other machine it makes my cursor a 32x32 white square when I activate
it...

KAH

Mar 4, 2003, 8:25pm

"bowen" <thisguyrules at 7k2.4mg.com.ANTISPAM> wrote in
news:3e650cc3 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Then you have an empty row...
>
> A completely 255 red pixel will not make neighboring pixels 255 red.
> It's just not that noticable... how about a prefix to denote it's an
> animation. They're just ideas. Hell, why not just get an image
> format that's made for animations; GIF for example.

After you compress the JPEG, that pixel won't stay #FF0000. GIF is patented
and absolete. It might be an idea to support MNG (Multi-image Network
Graphics, the animated version of PNG), and of course PNG.

MNG homepage:
http://www.libmng.com/pub/mng/index.html

KAH

Mar 4, 2003, 8:27pm

"kah" <kah at kahnews.cjb.net> wrote in
news:Xns9334EE382418Akahatkahnewsdotcjbdo at 64.94.241.201:

> patented and absolete.

Wow, I'm tired now. That's "obsolete".

KAH

Mar 5, 2003, 3:48pm

"bowen" <thisguyrules at 7k2.4mg.com.ANTISPAM> wrote in
news:3e6621a9$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> I think it's LZH, sounds familiar.

Actually, it is LZW. BTW, there are two patents on the same thing (the
USPTO is such a great example of competetent civil servants, isn't it?),
one owned by Unisys and one owned by IBM. The Unysys patent expires in the
US on June 20th this year, the IBM patent expires sometime this year, I'm
not sure when. Even if those patents expire, GIF is still inferior to JPEG
and PNG/MNG. I think AW really needs support for PNG, as it's compression
is lossless, and often the end result can turn out smaller than lossy-
compressed JPEGs.

KAH

Mar 5, 2003, 3:49pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at usa.net> wrote in
news:3e65c4c5 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> To answer your question about how the ActiveWorlds browser knows how
> many frames are in one animation, it divides the height of the image
> by it's width. If the result is an exact integer, that's the number
> of frames. If not, the texture isn't treated as a texture. As I was
> saying though, it would be "possible" to add extensions to existing
> commands that would allow the number of frames and the maximum frame
> rate to be specified directly.

It's considered a texture anyway, just not an animated one.

KAH

Mar 6, 2003, 2:46pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at usa.net> wrote in
news:3e664dae at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> GIF may not compress as well as PNG, but it's really not such a bad
> format if you actually take advantage of it's capabilities. I think
> it would be nice to have support for a format that allows compression,
> animation, individual frame delays, optional looping, and
> transparency, all built in without loss of image quality.

That's what MNG does :-)) It's got a bunch of other advanced (and may I say
rather unnecessary) features too. Check the link I posted a few replies
back.

KAH

Mar 7, 2003, 9:32pm

"yami trunks" <Chris101d at attbi.com> wrote in
news:3e692784 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> http://www.petitiononline.com/ejectTW/petition.html
>
> Please many have been wronged by this theiving hacker, go here and
> sign it! Please Suport our cause in getting rid of this monster.!

Oh come on, I'm sure that person hasn't "hacked" anyone. Please don't post
to all newsgroups, especially as it's off-topic in most of them.

KAH

Mar 10, 2003, 3:10pm

"jstone2004" <j at jlife.net> wrote in
news:3e6ba707$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> and Honestly, how on earth will a petition get AW to ban the dude?
> Have any petitions ever worked before?

Online petitions are really just a waste of time and bandwidth, as they
have no power, unlike a real petition.

KAH

Apr 12, 2003, 10:31am

"equin0x" <equin0x at activeworlds.com> wrote in
news:3e97578f at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> You cant spell, your attampt to kick him out is stupid and he is not a
> hacker. If he can hack Aw software, then...hell, im not even going to
> bother... He can't hack it.

And you don't know how to check the post date. The latest post in this
thread over a month old...

KAH

Mar 11, 2003, 4:33pm

"strike rapier" <strike at rapiercom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
news:3e6d0316 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> ummm Dosent the uniserver already have a database of world attributes,
> 1 more is not gonna hurt after a 5 min conversion to add the extra
> byte needed.

Thing is that all the changes made to AW seem to generate ten strange bugs
each... Even the bugfixes make bugs they're meant to fix worse.

KAH

Mar 12, 2003, 2:58pm

"jstone2004" <j at jlife.net> wrote in news:3e6ea5bb at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> It would be sooo nice to have settable chat ranges :-) so that it doesn't
> have to necessarily be 20 coords :-)

This is possible in 3.4. It's been called chat zones.

KAH

Mar 14, 2003, 12:30pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at usa.net> wrote in
news:3e714808$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> That's not a 3.4 feature. You need a bot for that... and even if it
> was a version 3.4 feature, being able to set up chat zones and being
> able to customize the chat range are two totally different things.

It requires a bot, but it wouldn't work well without 3.4.

KAH

Apr 25, 2003, 9:20am

"calhoun" <coen at charter.net> wrote in news:3ea86188$1
at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> some people have their worlds hosted so they should have it in the World
> Options too for people who have it hosted, you could transmit broadcasts
> from there

Broadcasts are just console messages sent to everyone. Those worldowners
can use bots (send it to session number 0 and it will be sent to everyone).

KAH

Apr 30, 2003, 2:18pm

"strike rapier" <strike at rapiercom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in news:3eaec491
at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> I really wish we could have this, a way of telling the browser to play a
> sound regardless of an object or area event. For example when I click on
> someone in paintball we both hear gunfire.

You *might* get away with sending the URL.

KAH

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