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Mar 29, 2004, 2:32am

Hi Everyone,

I am an experienced C/C++ programmer new to bot programming. I have
created a bot which seems to login OK, but I can't "see" the bot when
I'm in the same world. I handle the AW_EVENT_AVATAR_ADD and the bot
gets a callback for my avatar - good. When I make the bot try to say
something or whisper something to my avatar, I get 439 -
RC_NO_CONNECTION - bad.

Do I have to have certain permissions to run a bot (I'm a new citizen)?
Do I have to be in a particular world (I am testing in AW)?
What is the AW_MY_STATE attribute for (my bot seems to have state 0)?

Thanks!!
- me

Mar 29, 2004, 3:17am

If you're calling aw_state_change(), and your bot appears within the range of the [Customs Aide] robot, it will be auto-ejected. You have to keep your bots at least 300m away from 0N 0E.

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Mar 29, 2004, 3:54am

If your state is 0 then your walking, 1 is running etc. You'll want to
impliment some event handlers, specifically AW_EVENT_WORLD_DISCONNECT.
Sounds like CA is throwing a tissyfit then ejecting your bot, and cause you
dont have the event set it thinks its still connected and so you'll get
RC_NO_CONNECTION.

-Ep0ch

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Mar 29, 2004, 4:18am

You have to call aw_wait regularly. I set the parameter to 0, and use
a windows timer to call it. I call this the bot's hearbeat. Once a
second is minimal, in my opinion. If you don't call it within a
minute or so, you get a no connection message. I'm not sure how you
handle your code, so I can't say much more :)

By default, you have a 3 bot allowance as a cit, this should not be a
problem. You can test in Xelagon if you like (my world), there is no
creepy Custom HIV bot there to eject yours.

AW_MY_STATE is simply the sort of implicit sequence (animation) type
that the bot will show to browsers, by default 0 (walking). It can be
walking, running, flying, etc. Each state has it partical set of
animations, for example, walking includes the walk, idle and wait
sequences, flying includes the movement of flying (fly= in the
avatars.dat file), and hovering when the bot is not moving (hover=).
Check the enums AW_AVATAR_STATES in the H file, they only work in 3.4
or higher worlds and browsers.

Alex

On 28 Mar 2004 23:32:12 -0500, "roomie" <lisastump at netscape.net>
[View Quote] >Hi Everyone,
>
>I am an experienced C/C++ programmer new to bot programming. I have
>created a bot which seems to login OK, but I can't "see" the bot when
>I'm in the same world. I handle the AW_EVENT_AVATAR_ADD and the bot
>gets a callback for my avatar - good. When I make the bot try to say
>something or whisper something to my avatar, I get 439 -
>RC_NO_CONNECTION - bad.
>
>Do I have to have certain permissions to run a bot (I'm a new citizen)?
>Do I have to be in a particular world (I am testing in AW)?
>What is the AW_MY_STATE attribute for (my bot seems to have state 0)?
>
>Thanks!!
>- me

Mar 29, 2004, 5:24am

I'm not a programmer so I can't help you with your question, but I just
wanted to say welcome to AW (you said you were a new citizen) and that
if you need another place to test your bot in, telegram me and I'll let
you use my world if you'd like.

Builderz
http://www.3dhost.net

Mar 29, 2004, 1:10pm

Yayy!!!!!!!!!!!!

It worked! It worked!
*jumps up and down laughing

I tried my bot in Xelagon and all works great now! (I also increased
the frequency of calling aw_wait and called it with param 0 - so that
might have been it too) Thanks everyone. You have a great community here.

By the way, I played around with a Xelagot several months ago when I was
working on some webpages for someone else's aw project. I logged in and
logged in the bot and told it to "come here." While I waited around for
the bot to show up I was creepily reminded by that short horror story
about the old couple whose only son is lost tragically at sea (or
something like that). The man finds some kind of genie lamp with three
wishes and brings it home to his wife. They wish for something
innocuous to test it and it comes true with some kind of unforseen twist
(can't remember the details). So the wife grabs up the lamp and wishes
for her son to come home. Nothing happens, but the man is filled with a
sense of foreboding. In the middle of the night, they hear this
horrible scratching and moaning at the door. The wife runs to open it
and the man in horror realizes that they have raised the undead. He
snatches up the lamp and just before the door opens, wishes the son back
to the grave. The door opens and nothing is there...

Anyway, the bot was very nicely behaved and all - nothing like an undead
corpse. :-) Thanks for the great application!

I'll let you all know how it goes. Anyone know of any natural language
processing bots out there? (cuz that's what I'm working on)

Thanks again everyone!

- me


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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 2, 2004, 5:28am

On 1 Apr 2004 21:54:02 -0500, "brant" <awteen at shoemakervillage.org>
[View Quote] >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

Hopefully to the trashbin, it was the most annoying bot I've ever
encountered :)

Alex

Apr 2, 2004, 7:28pm

And Megahal?

~John

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Apr 17, 2004, 5:25pm

i remeber a story like that, except it was about a monkey's paw (the story
called the monkey's paw) and thier first wish is for money, then they get
the money, but it's compensation to thier sons death, then they wish him
back, can't remeber all the details, took in school like 5 years ago :)

-SWE

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