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Severe Whiplash
A.K.A Ywoski Khan
Join date: 3 Oct 2004
Posts: 381
07-27-2005 03:53
I'm looking for a droid scripter need it to feature for intelligent AI system

i may make more droids for as fornow i have built a sith seeker droid that needs scripting
being SITH technology needs to have that evilness to it i.e weapon capability heh

also a worn attachment to act as a "controler" or "remote" to the droid and to rez the droid and also speaking on a channel can relay commands to a droid long distance by keying the droid and the owner

Follow (Owner or other AV) and Stay are basics those can be in plus a few extra features

Offensive Mode: on/off toggle, auto attack enemies on a list on sight when enabled

Defensive Feature: the droid if violently attack will respond to attackers and attack back

Protection Feature: will defend target it is assigned to guard if taget is attack droid will intervene

Seek: if possible i would like the droid to be able to roam off on its own wether it be just fre roam or designated to keep a look out for certain AVs (if one if located it notifies the owner)

Pursue/Track mode: different to follow, doesn't stay close and stay on the offset to the AV but randomly circles around the AV at some distance they may not be as suspicous as normal follow wud arouse still being within range to listen to anything the target may say and and other AVs around, (droid can get closer if in stealth mode)

Stealth mode: a phase cloaking device, droid will fade into invisibility unable to be seen and also be phantom (disables the auto-attack back feature unless Awareness Feature is triggered)

Awareness Feature: another one of those if possibles, be aware of what others are saying and when in stealth mode try and be aware of when it has been detected by possibly listening to/intepreting things spoken about it and maybe even off touch

as for Stealth and Awareness combined if it "needs" to attack back it must first uncloak

pls advise anyone
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Clone Lieutenant in the Grand Army of the Republic


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Jon Marlin
Builder, Coder, RL & SL
Join date: 10 Mar 2005
Posts: 297
07-27-2005 07:52
From: Severe Whiplash

Pursue/Track mode: different to follow, doesn't stay close and stay on the offset to the AV but randomly circles around the AV at some distance they may not be as suspicous as normal follow wud arouse still being within range to listen to anything the target may say and and other AVs around, (droid can get closer if in stealth mode)


This sounds like a fascinating project, however, you might want to re-think this bit. Remote listeners are specifically in violation of the terms of service, and you will get banned for using one.

Other than that, this is very similar to something I want to do, once I am tired of building vehicles. I build autonomous robots as a hobby in real life, so a lot of this stuff is definitely up my alley...

- Jon
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Ledge Korvin
Registered User
Join date: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 39
07-27-2005 08:50
From: Severe Whiplash
I'm looking for a droid scripter need it to feature for intelligent AI system

(etc)

pls advise anyone


Heh, don't take this the wrong way, but you're pretty much saying, "I want someone to build me the ultimate robot that will take advantage of every trick that LSL is capable of and use lots of hacks that people have discovered about using LSL to do cool stuff, please advise."

Your requirements are incredibly ambitious. If you are actually asking someone to build it for you, expect to $pay$ a $whole$ $lot$ for it, because that's an incredible amount of work. (I know, I've recently started working on a bot that does a few of the things you list. There are a _lot_ of details in each and every one of your "requirements.";)

If you really do just want "advice" on how to go about building it, then here's what I can tell you:

First and most important, read the LSL wiki. You will use pretty much every feature of what LSL has in it to accomplish this job.

When it comes to actual implementation, take each point, one at a time, and get the fundamentals working. i.e. want it to follow you? Ok, make a script that will only handle the "follow you" functionality and start from the basics. First make it find you on rez. Then make it watch when you move and tell you where you've moved to. Then make it move to where you are when it rezzes. Then make it come to you when you move. etc.

Take each point one at a time, add features/functionality one step at a time, and keep everything simple. Don't even think about diving in and having something written up in a couple of hours by throwing some LSL code into a default script if you haven't already written at least a few LSL scripts before. Of course, if you manage to pull it off, you'll be an LSL expert by the end.

And expect to spend a loooong time doing it.

Keep us informed how you're doing.
Severe Whiplash
A.K.A Ywoski Khan
Join date: 3 Oct 2004
Posts: 381
07-28-2005 04:47
From: Jon Marlin
Remote listeners are specifically in violation of the terms of service, and you will get banned for using one.


remote listeners for recording chat is yes but maybe you did not read my whole descripton it needs to listen to be able to use the awareness feature explain here are the relevant re-caps:

From: Severe Whiplash

Pursue/Track mode: different to follow, doesn't stay close and stay on the offset to the AV but randomly circles around the AV at some distance they may not be as suspicous as normal follow wud arouse still being within range to listen to anything the target may say and and other AVs around, (droid can get closer if in stealth mode)


From: Severe Whiplash
Awareness Feature: another one of those if possibles, be aware of what others are saying and when in stealth mode try and be aware of when it has been detected by possibly listening to/intepreting things spoken about it and maybe even off touch
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A.K.A Ywoski Khan - Founder and Sith Lord of the Shadow Syndicate
Sith Lord of Dark lords of the Sith (lvl 3)

Admiral in the New Imperial Navy
Clone Lieutenant in the Grand Army of the Republic


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