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Jul 13, 2002, 4:48pm

This is kind of a dumb question but what's the code for making a bot
invisible. Delphi is prefered but any language will do.

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Jul 13, 2002, 5:03pm

Do not call aw_state_change and the bot will not appear in the world.

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Jul 13, 2002, 7:42pm

True enough answer, but I think a little more guidance/info would be helpful
here.

Bots don't have "invisibility" without some sacrifices unless it enters the
world in Global Mode (AW_ENTER_GLOBAL attribute which gives you information
overload in comparison). Because the bot is not actually present as an
avatar, it has no hearing radius - because there's no centre point for the
radius, usually the avatar's position. As with the browser, this radius
usually acts as a filter for the interaction events for other avatars
(entering, leaving, moving and chatting within the local area), and so these
events will not be supplied to the bot at all.

If you have caretaker rights in the world, you can use Global Mode to stay
invisible and still receive these events, but there is still no hearing
radius to restrict which events are delivered and you get ALL the avatar
add, delete and change events and all chat events occurring in the whole
world.

Things you can do without announcing your position in a world where you
don't have caretaker rights include property surveys and object
add/change/deletes.

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Jul 13, 2002, 7:47pm

And another thing is the bot cannot use aw_say while invisible since there
is no avatar for it to come from. It cannot recevive whispers either since
it won't show in the whisper list. The main way to communicate while
invisibile is console messages.

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Jul 13, 2002, 7:49pm

Caretaker rights only

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