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can i use bot to copy my building work in alpha world? (Bots)
can i use bot to copy my building work in alpha world? // Botsholistic1Dec 16, 1999, 11:56am
Sorry, except for extremely rare occurances, you cannot
use bots in ActiveWorlds. Terry [View Quote] > if so how plz. sagamanDec 16, 1999, 2:00pm
Not so. You can't run them near GZ and you're not supposed to use any
automated building software which even includes keyboard macros and certainly builder bots but "copy", as in record objects, why not? Of course using the recording to restore or duplicate objects would be a violation. Norm > Sorry, except for extremely rare occurances, you cannot > use bots in ActiveWorlds sagamanDec 16, 1999, 2:04pm
From http://www.activeworlds.com/terms.html
4. Using any automated building tools (including "robobuilder" or keyboard macros) in AlphaWorld. We reserve the right to suspend or remove any world, objects or properties from the Active Worlds universe which is brought to our attention and which we find, in our sole discretion, violates any of these content guidelines or otherwise is in violation of the law. AWCI does not actively monitor the content of the worlds in Active Worlds, but we will investigate complaints of violation of these guidelines. holistic1Dec 16, 1999, 4:21pm
Hmmm.... It seems that is what I said.
Terry [View Quote] > From http://www.activeworlds.com/terms.html > > 4. Using any automated building tools (including "robobuilder" or keyboard > macros) in AlphaWorld. > > We reserve the right to suspend or remove any world, objects or properties > from the Active Worlds universe which is brought to our attention and which > we find, in our sole discretion, violates any of these content guidelines or > otherwise is in violation of the law. > > AWCI does not actively monitor the content of the worlds in Active Worlds, > but we will investigate complaints of violation of these guidelines. canopusDec 16, 1999, 5:20pm
I think the rule was intended to protect AlphaWorld against runaway
robobuilders & the like. If you just copy your tourist building, nobody could have any good reason to complain (the rule specifically says that AW only responds to complaints, reserving the right to decide what is both automated & obnoxious). You should first survey your tourist building with a surveyor bot, then give the survey to a builder bot as a blueprint to rebuild under your own citizen name. This was one of the original purposes for construction bots, & many tourist-built homes have been saved this way. There are several construction bots that can be downloaded for free from http://www.canopus.org/construction/construction.html, & you can read the help files for the bots which are also online at the same site. If your tourist site is fairly small, the easiest surveyor to use is the VisualSurveyor; there also is a TouristSurveyor specially for Tourist buildings. You can edit with a VisualEditor or SurveyEditor, & when you're satisfied you've got everything you want to rebuild, save the survey as a blueprint. Then have a BuilderBot build it. [View Quote] sagamanDec 17, 1999, 12:34am
> Hmmm.... It seems that is what I said
No, what you said was... > Sorry, except for extremely rare occurances, you cannot > use bots in ActiveWorlds Which was nonsense. holistic1Dec 17, 1999, 10:27am
Well then, please be my guest. :)
[View Quote] > > No, what you said was... > > > Which was nonsense. lexxusDec 17, 1999, 11:45am
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> You should first survey your tourist building with a surveyor bot,
ok, i've dled the caVisualSurveyor.exe stuff but where is the source code? who wrote it? It starts by asking me for my priv password, which slightly unnerves me :( Many thanks for all the lucid explanation in your post. BTW i've seen the Mars stuff, very nice! canopusDec 17, 1999, 5:06pm
A bot needs a privilege password to build in your name, just like any
other citizen would. All the bot programs on the canopus website were written by me. I use them myself (the entire site at Mars 23N 500W was surveyed by a SpyBot at the original location & then rebuilt, rotated 90 degrees, by a BuilderBot); I give them away (with the usual disclaimers), & lots of people have done construction with them. Some people are even using caArtifact.exe to create their own artifacts. You're right to be cautious about downloading & running executables off the web, though. You could start by checking the SDK Newsgroup, where you can get an impression of the bot programmers at work--a more helpful & mutually open group could hardly be imagined. People have often posted sample source code there. We Delphi programmers posted a lot of source code, including an encapsulation of the SDK itself, as attachments to messages. The same applies to the C, VB, & Java bot programmers. [View Quote] seracDec 21, 1999, 10:08am
SeedBots are still accepted, correct?
==== Aaron Hill (Redmond, Wash.) Electronic Mail: serac at lightmail.com IRC Nickname: serac (on EF-Net) ICQ UIN: 46803963 ActiveWorlds Citizenship: serac bulbaboyDec 23, 1999, 1:59am
Simple. Just go to http://www.canopus.org/consturction/constuction.html and
download one of the two surveybots, editbots and the ONE builderbot so you can make a survey of what you want to copy, then turn it into a blueprint and then give it to a builderbot. And yes, I know some of this text is in blue. [View Quote] |