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Jul 10, 2003, 2:26am

Dear devteam, Bill, E N Z O,

a couple of weeks ago, testing SDK 31, I corresponded with Bill about
a serious bug in the forced avatar change code regarding tourists.
This bug has NOT been fixed in SDK 32, and leads to much confusion.

I will give an example, to show the bug.

Supposing the world server, and the clients are 3.4 compliant. An SDK
32 caretaker bot can change the avatar of other clients. When it
comes to tourists, this happens
"Cheng" comes in with avatar 1 (female tourist in most worlds)
[Creep] that is a caretaker, changes her av to avatar 7
all browsers see her wear avatar 7 (including herself)
bots see something different
they get first an avatar_change event with avatar 7 (same as browser
do), followed almpst inmediately by an avatar_change event with
avatar 0 (the male tourist avatar).

That means that the information bots get does not correspont with what
browsers get. It may be that some code is left over in the bot SDK
which does not correspond with the code in the browser.

In any case, I would like to ask you to check this. I have tested this
myself and with Anne of DLP. I am posting this in the relevant
newsgroups too, so that bot makers and users know about this SDK 32
bug, hoping it will be removed soon.

Alex

Jul 10, 2003, 2:54am

LOL in the mean time the tourists in A!!CT are loving this bug, because they
are not stuck to the same avatar all the time.
To bad this "bug" can not be a regular feature that only a caretaker bot can
impliment.
MrBruce

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Jul 10, 2003, 3:14am

You are making the same mistake AW is making.

I do not care whether tourists can have more avatars or not (I do, but
it is not for me to make policy): I am concerned that bots can not
see this. This makes the whole bot concept buggy: if a bot does not
see that an avatar has changed body, it is NOT RELIABLE. I have tried
to point this out to AW, and now to you :)

An unreliable bot is no bot, it has no reason to exist.

Alex

[View Quote] >LOL in the mean time the tourists in A!!CT are loving this bug, because they
>are not stuck to the same avatar all the time.
>To bad this "bug" can not be a regular feature that only a caretaker bot can
>impliment.
>MrBruce
>
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