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Nov 19, 2002, 5:54am

*SUGGESTION*
the NEW Server that will be programmed (Build 47 Once) should have
"Limitless" Citizen Number entries allowed in the Rights List under
Entry and Build
and "Light Corona" movement that makes it either rotate the world, or
move up/down at sertion speeds (For Example: the Sun setting, or a
Planet-Corona rotating around the World)
it wouldn't be too hard?
*SUGGESTION*

Nov 19, 2002, 6:12am

A moving solar corona already exists.

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Nov 19, 2002, 6:20am

Limitless anything is much more easily said than done, but as for having the sun rise and set, I've talked with both Shamus and Grimm about it and made suggestions. They didn't say directly weather something of that nature would or would not be added any time soon, but since it would be pretty simple to add at this point, I'm expecting we'll probably see it by AW 3.5 or sooner.

I figure if the initial position of the directional light source is converted to a vector and used as an initial orientation, then orbit around any one axis should be enough to achieve an infinite number of possible angles for rising and setting, so one rotation speed should be enough. Of course, much more complex orbits could be achieved using separate speeds for each axis.

TechnoZeus

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Nov 19, 2002, 5:41pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at techie.com> wrote in
news:3dd9f463$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Limitless anything is much more easily said than done, but as for
> having the sun rise and set, I've talked with both Shamus and Grimm
> about it and made suggestions. They didn't say directly weather
> something of that nature would or would not be added any time soon,
> but since it would be pretty simple to add at this point, I'm
> expecting we'll probably see it by AW 3.5 or sooner.

I think he meant pseudo-limitless... Due to the 255 byte max lenght of data
in the AW protocol this restricts the number of 6 digit citizen numbers to
about 16 entries for each privilege field.

KAH

Nov 19, 2002, 5:52pm

> I think he meant pseudo-limitless... Due to the 255 byte max lenght of data
> in the AW protocol this restricts the number of 6 digit citizen numbers to
> about 16 entries for each privilege field.

Reasonably you could quadruple that I believe (which should be enough).

--Bowen--

Nov 20, 2002, 3:50am

255 / 7 = 16 ?


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Nov 20, 2002, 1:36pm

36

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Nov 20, 2002, 3:02pm

[View Quote] Don't forget spaces and/or commas.

--Bowen--

Nov 20, 2002, 7:38pm

Well you come up with a way to add that to the protocal without a major rewrite of the packet lengths and sure...


> the NEW Server that will be programmed (Build 47 Once) should have
> "Limitless" Citizen Number entries allowed in the Rights List under
> Entry and Build

Nov 20, 2002, 10:01pm

If you don't put spaces then the comma is the 7th digit.

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Nov 22, 2002, 11:20pm

okay.. how about this for a way around packet lenght problems... if the field is more than 255 characters long, treat it internally as more than one field. Split it up... send the packets for each "virtual field" and splice them together on the other end. Of course there is probably a much better way, but without looking at the source code I'm sire this one would at least work. :)

TechnoZeus

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Nov 23, 2002, 8:14pm

"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at techie.com> wrote in
news:3dded7e6 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> okay.. how about this for a way around packet lenght problems... if
> the field is more than 255 characters long, treat it internally as
> more than one field. Split it up... send the packets for each
> "virtual field" and splice them together on the other end. Of course
> there is probably a much better way, but without looking at the source
> code I'm sire this one would at least work. :)

Quite unnecessary. Why not just add a header specifying packet/data lenght,
like most other (semi-)binary protocols?

KAH

Nov 24, 2002, 5:27pm

Well... I did say there was probably a better way. Hehe. Since I don't know what better ways there are I had to work within what I did know.

Thanks for the input. :)

TechnoZeus

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