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Feb 11, 2003, 5:29pm

I wish you could add a greeter in activeworlds as an object or something
simular to that in the way you dont have to host something for no reason.

This would be a big advantage for 56k users like myself.

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D a n

Feb 11, 2003, 5:45pm

Could you go into a bit more detail?


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Feb 12, 2003, 4:37pm

"Embedded"


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> to that in the way you dont have to host something for no reason.

What's wrong with using the World Welcome Message?

-Agent1

Feb 12, 2003, 6:40pm

Worlds you DONT own?


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Feb 13, 2003, 2:23am

there is a difference between hosting an owning :-)

J

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Feb 13, 2003, 6:49am

Well, at this point in time objects in Active Worlds don't talk... but the addition of a simple "talk" command (or a send chat command, speak command, or what ever you want to call it) to allow a line of text to be sent to the chat in the same way that it can now be placed on a sign would change that. I think the biggest drawback would be that it would only take one person abusing it to make almost everyone want to disable it. At the least, there would need to be a built in way to mute objects, and a limit on how many lines of chat text can be sent by objects placed by a single citizen within a given amount of time.

TechnoZeus

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Feb 13, 2003, 11:47pm

there is a way to get an object to talk through the use of a bot, kinda,
where you click on the object, and the bot sends a console message with the
text put into the string inside the object... they use it in awrpg :-)
which, btw, opens on Saturday at 6pm vrt

J

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Feb 20, 2003, 4:41am

Yep.. and you can also have a bot read commands and description text, and use them to do all kinds of things, if the bot has been programmed that way, but as I said... Objects in Actice Worlds presently don't talk. There is no such functionality built in at this time. It has to be programmed externally, and an external program has to implement it. Of course, you could always just point at description text, and call that "the object talking" ... or have someone stand around and pretend to be an object talking, but those would still not be the same either. It's just a feature that isn't part of Active Worlds at this time.

TechnoZeus

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:14am

Hey TZ ... check out the name of the newsgroup.

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:33am

If you go back and read my earlier response, perhaps you would understand why I posted the one you aparently didn't understand the reasoning behind, rather than assuming that I didn't bother to check which newsgroup this is.

The original post asked for a way to do something "without a bot" and I had responded by mentioning a way that such a thing could potentially be added. The reply that I then got to my response was one stating that it could already be done with a bot. While I don't wish to criticize anyone for their input, it strikes me as a bit unsuccessful if you have to use a bot to do something without a bot... so I attempted to politely clarify my statement.

TechnoZeus

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:51am

Well thankyou for that clarification TZ ... although I am still
none-the-wiser regarding your reasoning. I didn't mean "you stupid dope,
can't you f**king read?", I was merely indicating, in a short and sweet
manner, that you were explaining that something can't currently be done in a
wishlist newsgroup, where existing limitations are not an issue (but likely
development/implementation considerations and costs are).

Grims

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Feb 20, 2003, 12:50pm

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Feb 20, 2003, 6:49pm

Actually, I was addressing some of the development/implementation issues, in a positive manor ("...the addition of a simple "talk" command "..." to allow a line of text to be sent to the chat..."), and later pointing out that the existance of an SDK does not invalidate a wish for the ability to be able to do something "without" a bot.

TechnoZeus

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Feb 20, 2003, 7:50pm

The time has come ....

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