Totally embarrassed to have to ask, but I have no idea and I am desperately trying to educate myself in all things SL!!
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Barrowness Beaumont
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04-03-2007 01:06
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bilbo99 Emu
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04-03-2007 01:12
Hi BB, plenty of threads about them .. if you're that much of a masochist LOL
Basically, they are scripted avatars (I think) that automatically scan the 'land for sale' lists and buy that which falls below a certain price/sm and transfer it to the owners posession for subsequent pricing up and reselling. |
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Barrowness Beaumont
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04-03-2007 01:14
So kind of 'robot avatars' then?!! lol
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bilbo99 Emu
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04-03-2007 01:24
So kind of 'robot avatars' then?!! lol Thanks bilbo99 BB x my pleasure ma'am <bows> |
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Morwen Bunin
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04-03-2007 01:26
Hmmm.... why does this make me ponder about books as "I Robot"...
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Alazarin Mondrian
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04-03-2007 02:35
Bots don't even come remotely close to Asimov's Robots and seem to be lacking the '3 laws'. You'd get a decent conversation out of one of Asimov's robots. Don't expect anything even as sophisticated as a grunt out of a bot.
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Cindy Crabgrass
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04-03-2007 02:45
Bots are not simple 'scripted' Avatars.
The Second Life Scripting Language (LSL) can't control an Avatar like a Robot. At the Moment, libsecondlife is the Way to go. With libsecondlife, a Programmer can write Programs, in C# Language, to act like a SL client / viewer. Another possible Way would be to modify the Open source second Life Client (openSL) - but thats a huge Pile of C++ Code and there is no built-in scripting, so it would be a lot of hard work to do. |
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Morwen Bunin
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04-03-2007 02:50
No, but if I recall right in the book the 3 laws were removed from them so they go be used for not so nice tasks? Or am I getting stories mixed up? (It is at least more then 15 years ago I did read the books from Asimov).
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bilbo99 Emu
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04-03-2007 04:32
Bots are not simple 'scripted' Avatars. The Second Life Scripting Language (LSL) can't control an Avatar like a Robot. At the Moment, libsecondlife is the Way to go. With libsecondlife, a Programmer can write Programs, in C# Language, to act like a SL client / viewer. Another possible Way would be to modify the Open source second Life Client (openSL) - but thats a huge Pile of C++ Code and there is no built-in scripting, so it would be a lot of hard work to do. Thankyou for correcting me Cindy. Not having 'met' a landbot I guess I was getting confused with the equally notorious copybot inasmuch as they I gather actually looked like avatars. |
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Sys Slade
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04-03-2007 05:09
CopyBot was also a product of libsecondlife.
Theoretically though, with the protocol open for inspection you are not limited to c#, but could write a bot in any language you fancy. |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-03-2007 05:33
One can actually look Copybot up in wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copybot Landbot doesn't have a page yet. Landbot must need a new publicistbot.
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Reverend Herzog
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04-03-2007 09:24
One can actually look Copybot up in wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copybot Landbot doesn't have a page yet. Landbot must need a new publicistbot. I wrote one, but the powers that be at wikipedia told me such language was inappropriate for their general readership.  _____________________
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