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Weather algorithm. // Botsedward sumerfieldFeb 8, 1999, 5:02pm
I just thought of a cool programming problem to do with weather.
Lets say that you want a cloudy day, not too many clouds but a few doted around. It may be too much of an overhead to add clouds to every zone in the world, especially a large world like Aw. You could come up with an algorithm that worked out the optimum spread of cloud objects based on the locations of the known avatars in the world. So you would only have to add cloud objects to certain parts of the world. In most cases this would be just around GZ but there would be an occasional smattering for those adventurous souls that ventured into the green beyond. I am not sure what the maximum visibility of an bot is but the cloud bot, sorry Eep, must call it a bot, would have to station bots at a number of locations around the world to ensure that everyone is seen. Each cloud bot would maintain the same list of avatars in the world and track each of their movements. Wherever you go, the clouds will follow. Sounds like a sad ending to a weather phenomenon. Edward Sumerfield. deanFeb 8, 1999, 7:42pm
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<html> I don't know much about bots, but wouldn't clouds cause a problem with the Building Inspector in worlds with registries? How would you solve this problem without doing away with the registry? [View Quote] byte meFeb 8, 1999, 8:53pm
One idea is use tourist property so they could be removed another way is
if roland was up to programming is make a way for bots to build and when people build under or over these objects would not return a BI message... [View Quote] > I don't know much about bots, but wouldn't clouds cause a problem with > the Building Inspector in worlds with registries? How would you > solve this problem without doing away with the registry? > [View Quote] canopusFeb 8, 1999, 9:00pm
If the clouds are specially designed bots, then they can go anywhere in a
world like AW that a citizen or tourist avatar can go. So the problem becomes how to detect where the citizen or tourist avatars are hanging out. A cloud-avatar bot can't detect other avatars more than a short distance away. So you'd need a lot of bots out looking for crowds of tourist and citizen avatars to rain on. If the clouds are objects added to AW's objects list, then the cloud-building/destroying bot can only create them above land that is owned by the bot's owner, as Dean points out. A builder bot can build anywhere in the world it has been admitted to, so it could make clouds appear anywhere its owner has land to rain on, without actually being present there. But detecting whether anybody is on that land is still a problem. Could another way of detecting crowds on your property be devised (other than sending a bot there to count AvatarAdded events)? This wouldn't be a bot programming problem, it would be an object-designing problem or an object+action+webpage building problem. [View Quote] > I just thought of a cool programming problem to do with weather. > > Lets say that you want a cloudy day, not too many clouds but a few doted > around. It may be too much of an overhead to add clouds to every zone in > the world, especially a large world like Aw. You could come up with an > algorithm that worked out the optimum spread of cloud objects based on > the locations of the known avatars in the world. So you would only have > to add cloud objects to certain parts of the world. In most cases this > would be just around GZ but there would be an occasional smattering for > those adventurous souls that ventured into the green beyond. > > I am not sure what the maximum visibility of an bot is but the cloud > bot, sorry Eep, must call it a bot, would have to station bots at a > number of locations around the world to ensure that everyone is seen. > Each cloud bot would maintain the same list of avatars in the world and > track each of their movements. > > Wherever you go, the clouds will follow. Sounds like a sad ending to a > weather phenomenon. > > Edward Sumerfield. rjinswandFeb 9, 1999, 2:19am
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Yes, it seems that my idea will not be feasible. So we are limited to
generating clouds over our own land only, not so much because of the access restrictions but because of the problem of finding all the avatars to have clouds over. [View Quote] > If the clouds are specially designed bots, then they can go anywhere in a > world like AW that a citizen or tourist avatar can go. So the problem > becomes how to detect where the citizen or tourist avatars are hanging out. > A cloud-avatar bot can't detect other avatars more than a short distance > away. So you'd need a lot of bots out looking for crowds of tourist and > citizen avatars to rain on. > > If the clouds are objects added to AW's objects list, then the > cloud-building/destroying bot can only create them above land that is owned > by the bot's owner, as Dean points out. A builder bot can build anywhere in > the world it has been admitted to, so it could make clouds appear anywhere > its owner has land to rain on, without actually being present there. But > detecting whether anybody is on that land is still a problem. > > Could another way of detecting crowds on your property be devised (other > than sending a bot there to count AvatarAdded events)? This wouldn't be a > bot programming problem, it would be an object-designing problem or an > object+action+webpage building problem. > [View Quote] archon manusFeb 9, 1999, 4:04am
This doesn't help with the avatar detection issue, but remember that you can
create an object that is not centered on its 0,0,0 point. The limitation then becomes that the anchor point has to be visible. In general, this means that you could have clouds within 60 meters of land that you control, and they would usually be visible. Archon Manus Vizier D'Magienne [View Quote] canopusFeb 9, 1999, 4:05am
Don't give up yet. What I had in mind was a Bump action on certain key objects on
someone's land, so that a webpage and associated database was updated, in a way that allowed that person's central bot to take a peek at it, and see how big the current local population of Bumping citizens and tourists might be. There's a number of reasonable complaints under this newsgroup about having to program bots, but many of those non-programmers might be ready to install a readymade web-action on some of their objects, assuming that the bot and database parts will be taken care of by programmers for them. Then someone's central bot could put clouds over that person's land whenever its Bump quota was fulfilled, and rain on the Bumping citizens and tourists there. [View Quote] > Yes, it seems that my idea will not be feasible. So we are limited to > generating clouds over our own land only, not so much because of the access > restrictions but because of the problem of finding all the avatars to have > clouds over. > [View Quote] edward sumerfieldFeb 9, 1999, 10:46am
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> This doesn't help with the avatar detection issue,
If you are only adding weather effects over your own land then you do not need any avatar detection. Just a local effect. Of coarse you could get adjoining pieces of land with different weather effects which may look funny. > but remember that you can > create an object that is not centered on its 0,0,0 point. The limitation > then becomes that the anchor point has to be visible. In general, this means > that you could have clouds within 60 meters of land that you control, and > they would usually be visible. I don't get this "not centered on its 0,0,0" issue. Why can't I just have a little cloud rwx file and place it 40 meters off the ground (or 60 in your case, my vis is only 40). It can be moved and changed for other little cloud objects as the weather pattern transforms through time. > Archon Manus > Vizier D'Magienne > [View Quote] edward sumerfieldFeb 9, 1999, 10:48am
When an avatar bumps a bump object is the SDK program monitoring that zone notified
or do you have to put some kind of action the change the object for it to be notified. [View Quote] > Don't give up yet. What I had in mind was a Bump action on certain key objects > onsomeone's land, so that a webpage and associated database was updated, in a way > that allowed that person's central bot to take a peek at it, and see how big the > current local population of Bumping citizens and tourists might be. There's a > number of reasonable complaints under this newsgroup about having to program > bots, but many of those non-programmers might be ready to install a readymade > web-action on some of their objects, assuming that the bot and database parts > will be taken care of by programmers for them. Then someone's central bot could > put clouds over that person's land whenever its Bump quota was fulfilled, and > rain on the Bumping citizens and tourists there. > [View Quote] hillFeb 9, 1999, 10:06pm
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You could make clouds in the Object Registry as 0 so when citizens build thay dont get Building Inspector... And To Stop Vandiles make them like z signs ... only serten pple can use them [View Quote] > Don't give up yet. What I had in mind was a Bump action on certain key objects on > someone's land, so that a webpage and associated database was updated, in a way > that allowed that person's central bot to take a peek at it, and see how big the > current local population of Bumping citizens and tourists might be. There's a > number of reasonable complaints under this newsgroup about having to program > bots, but many of those non-programmers might be ready to install a readymade > web-action on some of their objects, assuming that the bot and database parts > will be taken care of by programmers for them. Then someone's central bot could > put clouds over that person's land whenever its Bump quota was fulfilled, and > rain on the Bumping citizens and tourists there. > [View Quote] --------------6A3C0A0F9DBE3530B309709F Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <P><FONT SIZE=+2>You could make clouds in the Object Registry as 0 so when citizens build thay dont get Building Inspector... And To Stop Vandiles make them like z signs ... only serten pple can use them</FONT> [View Quote] --------------6A3C0A0F9DBE3530B309709F-- archon manusFeb 9, 1999, 11:23pm
>I don't get this "not centered on its 0,0,0" issue. Why can't I just have a
>little cloud rwx file and place it 40 meters off the ground (or 60 in your case, >my vis is only 40). It can be moved and changed for other little cloud objects >as the weather pattern transforms through time. It certainly will work great. . .I was pointing out that you can put weather 40 meters away from your land on top of someone else's land :) Probably not a polite thing to do, but certainly feasible. Archon Manus dthknightFeb 9, 1999, 11:39pm
probably the best way to do something like this would be with a special
account with a name such as "Weather" which all the clouds would be created under... the account could then have ED and that way it could create clouds everywhere. It would delete them and move them and all too of course :) [View Quote] andras sarkozyFeb 10, 1999, 11:40am
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a feeling son that you mix apples with oranges. Object Registry (the registry.txt) has nothing to do with citizens. [View Quote] > > > You could make clouds in the Object Registry as 0 so when citizens build thay dont get Building Inspector... And To Stop Vandiles make them like z signs ... only serten pple can use them --------------7F61B74ACAA0B57EDA171C33 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> I have a feeling son that you mix apples with oranges. Object Registry (the registry.txt) has nothing to do with citizens. [View Quote] --------------7F61B74ACAA0B57EDA171C33-- wullisFeb 11, 1999, 5:13pm
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------=_NextPart_000_0083_01BE55FA.F92CCB80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Uhm... If there is going to be clouds in a whole world, why not just add the = clouds to the ground object..? Then they will be repeated every 60 = meter... It works fine with snow...(: -Wullis ------=_NextPart_000_0083_01BE55FA.F92CCB80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 = transitional//en"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.11"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Uhm...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>If there is going to be clouds in a = whole world,=20 why not just add the clouds to the ground object..? Then they will be = repeated=20 every 60 meter...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>It works fine with snow...(:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>-Wullis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0083_01BE55FA.F92CCB80-- edward sumerfieldFeb 11, 1999, 5:28pm
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------=_NextPart_000_0075_01BE55CA.D445EDE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That's an interesting approach but doesn't that mean that they would not = changed? I would envisage clouds that change and move around. [View Quote] -Wullis ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01BE55CA.D445EDE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 5.00.0910.1309"' name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>That's an = interesting=20 approach but doesn't that mean that they would not changed? I would = envisage=20 clouds that change and move around.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>Wullis <<A=20 href=3D"mailto:wullis at trivini.8m.com">wullis at trivini.8m.com</A>> = wrote in=20 message <A = href=3D"news:36c32bb1.0 at homer">news:36c32bb1.0 at homer</A>...</DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Uhm...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>If there is going to be clouds in = a whole=20 world, why not just add the clouds to the ground object..? Then they = will be=20 repeated every 60 meter...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>It works fine with snow...(:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 = size=3D2>-Wullis</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01BE55CA.D445EDE0-- wullisFeb 14, 1999, 3:24pm
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------=_NextPart_000_00A5_01BE5847.35B48D60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No, they wouldn't move, but you can use animated textures for rain, = snow, etc. ------=_NextPart_000_00A5_01BE5847.35B48D60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"><!doctype html = public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.11"' name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>No, they wouldn't move, but you can = use animated=20 textures for rain, snow, etc.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00A5_01BE5847.35B48D60-- tammy joFeb 14, 1999, 7:26pm
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------=_NextPart_000_0075_01BE5836.C8B90700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Why Not use the Z object Idea and have the owner of the world use it = that way. It would work and not cause a problem with building inspector but it = would be a small problem with people who can use z objects. They could = get angry at owner while they are not there and could go on a cloud = frenzy with clouds all over the place. PS if you wish to test this bot contact me in my world and I can see = what we can do. Horizons 288611 ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01BE5836.C8B90700 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"><!DOCTYPE HTML = PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html = 4.0 transitional//en"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Why Not use the Z object Idea and = have the owner=20 of the world use it that way.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>It would work and not cause a = problem with=20 building inspector but it would be a small problem with people who can = use z=20 objects. They could get angry at owner while they are not there and = could go on=20 a cloud frenzy with clouds all over the place.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>PS if you wish to test this bot = contact me in my=20 world and I can see what we can do.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Horizons</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>288611</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01BE5836.C8B90700-- |
