Just for clarification, could you explain what an NPC is? I know from D&D and other RPGs that its a NonPlayer Character, but I want to make sure I am not mis-understanding.
On 8/11/11, Justin Clark-Casey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks. Some of you may know that I've been working on OSSL NPC functions > over the past couple of weeks > (osNpcCreate(), etc). The main body of work has now been completed. The > existing functions, many of which had been > broken since OpenSim 0.6.9 (I think) should now be working again. Existing > scripts should work, though this is not > guaranteed. Autopilot should also be working from libomv. > > General information about OSSL NPC, the current functions and an example > script are at > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSLNPC. New additions include functions to > get avatar rotation and position, movement > options and the ability to save appearance and baked texture data > permanently so that it can be used by NPCs when the > original avatar it was copied from is no longer logged in. > > I also composed a brief wiki page on the different options available for > using NPCs in OpenSim at > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/NPC. Please feel free to add to this. > > Though my desired philosophy is to try and avoid adding osNpc* functions > that can be achieved via existing scripting and > techniques (e.g. by putting the controlling script in a prim that is > attached to the NPC for detecting the presence of > other avatars), I've no doubt that other good osNpc* candidates will emerge. > I'm very probably going to move on to > other things now, but it's worth bringing these up, either on this mailing > list or in the comments section of the OSSL > NPC wiki page, in case other people are interested in submitting patches for > them too. > > Very many thanks to David Burden from Daden (http://www.daden.co.uk) for > sponsoring this work and bumping it way up my > priority stack. > > Best Regards, > > -- > Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) > http://justincc.org/blog > http://twitter.com/justincc > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
