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Annabelle Babii
Unholier than thou
Join date: 2 Jun 2007
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11-07-2007 16:02
Ok, I'll be noobish for a second.
What is a bot? (I mean besides the standard answer "a fully automated autonomous avatar"  Is it running a special client version? What keeps it from logging out? How do they work? Is it a program scripted in LSL or an outside program controlling the client? |
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Gomez Bracken
Who said that??
Join date: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 479
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11-07-2007 16:09
Ok, I'll be noobish for a second. What is a bot? (I mean besides the standard answer "a fully automated autonomous avatar" Is it running a special client version? What keeps it from logging out? How do they work? Is it a program scripted in LSL or an outside program controlling the client? A bot is just an Alt. The person running it will normally use a program to log it in and control it in an automated way based on the open source client, so they won't normally "see" the world as we do. They could however use the bot's alt account to log in as that AV in the normal client and contribute to the SL community just as any other AV can if they wanted to. Gomez _____________________
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Annabelle Babii
Unholier than thou
Join date: 2 Jun 2007
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11-07-2007 16:16
A bot is just an Alt. The person running it will normally use a program to log it in and control it in an automated way based on the open source client, so they won't normally "see" the world as we do. So it's running on a modified client which is reprogrammed to do the bot things. Gotcha. |
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Gomez Bracken
Who said that??
Join date: 12 Apr 2007
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11-07-2007 16:21
So it's running on a modified client which is reprogrammed to do the bot things. Gotcha. Yep  Gomez _____________________
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Trout Recreant
Public Enemy No. 1
Join date: 24 Jul 2007
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11-07-2007 16:22
In practical terms, it's an avatar that's being controlled by a script or a program rather than a human. There's no person on the other end. They can be used to do any number of things, none of them particularly appetizing as far as I'm concerned, ranging from searching out and buying land to camping, to griefing, to...you pretty much name it. My opinion is when you take the operator out of the picture, nothing really positive can come of it, but I guess I'm open to argument to the contrary if someone can come up with a good use for bots which outweighs the bad uses.
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Nika Talaj
now you see her ...
Join date: 2 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,449
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11-07-2007 16:34
Yes, bots are based on the libsl software created by the libsecondlife open source project. Here is their page on how to create a bot, if you're a software developer:
http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_basic_libSL_bot Inworld, they look just like any other avatar. Nowadays, you can buy bots that do various things, or even custom order special commands for existing bots, from people who sell them. The bots can be controlled either by command line interactions on the workstation on which their client is running, or inworld via interactions (e.g. IMs) that they've been coded to understand. Here's a sample command set for a bot, notice it's hierarchical: -=animation =- repeatanims, stoprepeatanims -=appearance=- clone, detach, fixlook, wear, wearnum -=build=- deletethis, rezmap, thiskey, thispermissions -=communication=- dialoglisten, dialogreply, listen, say, saychan, shout, stoplisten, whisper, who -=finances=- balance, buythis, givecash, paythis, sellthis -=friendlist=- allrights, invitefriend, resetrights -=info=- help, helpnote, programstats, regioninfo, version -=inventory=- cd, ls, mkdir, rezinvo, rmdir -=movement=- fly, follow, land, sit, sithere, sitkey, sitnum, stand, stopfollow, teleport, teleportav, teleportme, touchhere -=status=- busy, forceresit, logout cool, huh? |
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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11-07-2007 17:05
Yes, bots are based on the libsl software created by the libsecondlife open source project. Here is their page on how to create a bot, if you're a software developer: http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_basic_libSL_bot Inworld, they look just like any other avatar. Nowadays, you can buy bots that do various things, or even custom order special commands for existing bots, from people who sell them. The bots can be controlled either by command line interactions on the workstation on which their client is running, or inworld via interactions (e.g. IMs) that they've been coded to understand. Here's a sample command set for a bot, notice it's hierarchical: -=animation =- repeatanims, stoprepeatanims -=appearance=- clone, detach, fixlook, wear, wearnum -=build=- deletethis, rezmap, thiskey, thispermissions -=communication=- dialoglisten, dialogreply, listen, say, saychan, shout, stoplisten, whisper, who -=finances=- balance, buythis, givecash, paythis, sellthis -=friendlist=- allrights, invitefriend, resetrights -=info=- help, helpnote, programstats, regioninfo, version -=inventory=- cd, ls, mkdir, rezinvo, rmdir -=movement=- fly, follow, land, sit, sithere, sitkey, sitnum, stand, stopfollow, teleport, teleportav, teleportme, touchhere -=status=- busy, forceresit, logout cool, huh? cool, but confusing. |
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Nika Talaj
now you see her ...
Join date: 2 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,449
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11-07-2007 17:15
cool, but confusing. Maybe this'll help: when the bot client starts, in addition to running in SL, it opens up a command line window (like a dos window) on the local PC it's running on. The person controlling the bot can type the commands I listed into that window, and the bot will perform the command inworld. Like say I typed something like: teleport (hahne 0,0,0) the bot would teleport there. I've kind of simplified above, but that's the idea. There are bot manufacturers on the forums - maybe one of them can be clearer |
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Void Singer
Int vSelf = Sing(void);
Join date: 24 Sep 2005
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11-07-2007 17:37
I guess I'm open to argument to the contrary if someone can come up with a good use for bots which outweighs the bad uses. group invite handling (which can be abused) land RENTAL/SALES (which can be extended to abuse using buys etc) land grief monitoring(think sand box bot that auto-detects oversized mega prims, or viral rezzors and auto returns them with a msg not to use them and perhaps ban + AR repeat offenders) A better vendor server that never has to worry about changing keys just off the top of my head like anything, we automate repetitive tasks we can't be arsed to handle ourselves _____________________
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Day Oh
Registered User
Join date: 3 Feb 2007
Posts: 1,257
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11-07-2007 18:11
"Bot" has seemingly become the buzzword for any third-party client...
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Gaybot Blessed
Heavenly Input Collector
Join date: 3 Oct 2007
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11-07-2007 18:57
Bots you rang? |
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Alyx Sands
Mental Mentor Linguist
Join date: 17 Feb 2007
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11-07-2007 19:04
you rang? Awwww, you're just a cute little gaybot...you're not one of them evil ones....  _____________________
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