At Surina's suggestion I am going to start a thread about my own efforts to develop an artificial life creature.
My first creature is a hovering land creature. It's current form is a 0.5m, red, reflective sphere. I'm using this as a test bed and will add a more natural looking model later on. I will probably keep this creature as a land creature and try to emulate insect behavior.
So far, by following Surina's posts about her fish, I have been able to get my creatures to group tegether and follow an avatar around. This was helped a great deal by me discovering the dot product operator in LSL. (I'm just not very good with vectors yet)
After talking with Surina this morning, I am going to try adjusting the method of movement that my creatures use to get a more natural looking behavior. I would also like to add more behaviors to them so they don't just follow an avatar around.
A special thanks goes out to Surina for taking the time to show me her fish and discuss how they behave.
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Zak Escher
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06-08-2005 08:09
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Moopf Murray
Moopfmerising
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06-08-2005 08:57
Zak, do keep us informed as to how you progress!
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Surina Skallagrimson
Queen of Amazon Nations
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06-11-2005 03:45
Come on Zak, I know you've made progress... where are the updates??
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Zak Escher
Builder and Scripter
Join date: 3 Aug 2003
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06-11-2005 09:08
Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been lazy
 I have pretty much gotten my creatures to swarm. I am still having a problem with keeping the swarm from "exploding" (flying off in different directions). I'm still working on that problem. _____________________
Zak Escher
Unity Shapes http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hatteras%20Island/125/46/31 http://unityshapes.blogspot.com/ See what I have for sale at SLExchange |
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Llauren Mandelbrot
Twenty-Four Weeks Old.
Join date: 26 Apr 2006
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05-07-2006 12:30
Anythin` since?
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