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a note about bots and special avatars (Sdk)
a note about bots and special avatars // Sdkroland vilettDec 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 elias israelDec 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 [View Quote] roland vilettDec 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 [View Quote] |