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Dec 15, 1998, 10:23pm

Hi,

some of you have probably noticed that it has been possible for bots to use
special avatars in a world even if their owners weren't PS. I just wanted
to mention that this has been changed in the 2.1 server to enforce the
requirement that a user or bot must be on the world's PS list in order to
use the special avatars. All COF worlds are now running world servers with
this change in effect.

-Roland

Dec 19, 1998, 1:16am

This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. Is there a way,
using the SDK, to get a list of the available avatars on a world by name? Is
there a way to get the list of available gestures for a given avatar by
name?

Hambot-based bots seem to know how to do this, but I could be wrong.

Thanks!

Eli Israel
eli at promanage-inc.com


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Dec 19, 1998, 2:09am

This information is contained in only one place, the avatars.dat file. The
SDK has no direct access to this file, and neither do the servers, so it
can't be provided via the SDK. You would have to provide the avatars.dat
file directly to your SDK application.

Or, you could have your program download and unzip the avatars.dat file
itself (using the object path information from the world attributes.) This
will be left as an exercise for the reader. :)

-Roland

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