On 13/12/11 13:21, Bob Wellman wrote:
Justincc said "I'm happy to listen to suggestions for further NPC functions"
As I am currently working on writing some NPC scripts in PMgrid, I would like
to suggest a few things whilst they are on
my mind.
I realise they will be low priority for some time to come, but if they could
just be added to a futures wish list that
would be great.
1) Adding OS_NPC_RUN and OS_NPC_NO_RUN options to osNpcMoveToTarget. Default
should be OS_NPC_NO_RUN which would work as
now. The option OS_NPC_RUN would move the NPC at running speed and use a run
animation rather than a walk animation.
Sounds good to me. A little difficult to do but not enormously so.
2) Adding osNpcShout and osNpcWhisper functions. Each identical to osNpcSay but
shouts or whispers the message rather
than says it. Hopefully the shout animation would be used on the NPC if he
shouts. Alternatively these could be options
added to osNpcSay to control at what volume something is said, the deafult
being Say as now.
Both good suggestions, I think. I prefer separate functions since this parallels llShout() and llWhisper(). Would be
pretty simple to do.
3) Adding an osNpcTouch(key npc, key target).This would allow NPCs to do things
like touch doors to open them before
trying to walk through them and to interact with existing scripts in object
such as light switches, machinery etc.
I think this is also an interesting idea. More difficult than 2 as events are
involved.
Unfortunately, the chance to me doing them soon is quite small since there are many other issues to address (e.g. npc
boundary problems, issues with npcs and groups). Naturally. patches are welcome.
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:59:23 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Inquiry about OpenSim NPC
>
> Hi Tan Lu,
>
> Unfortunately, the Second Life viewer doesn't (yet!) recognize NPCs - as far
as its concerned they're users like
> everybody else.
>
> Therefore, scripting NPCs in OpenSimulator is subject to a number of
workarounds. For instance, you can't place scripts
> in an NPC directly, as you would with a prim. As Garmin said for (1), a
standard idiom for controlling NPCs is to
> attach an object to them which contains the control script.
>
> And as Garmin also said for (2), being able to actually select them is not
an expected behaviour. If your viewer allows
> this then things are going to go wrong pretty quickly.
>
> I'd like to add that I'm happy to listen to suggestions for further NPC
functions if there's (1) a demonstrable need,
> (2) it's impossible via other script functions or extremely difficult and
(3) it's not incredibly complicated to do :).
> However, I'm not likely to get to them quickly due to the press of other
work and the fact there are still other
> outstanding NPC issues that I haven't yet had time to address (e.g. problems
if an NPC is pushed outside its region,
> issues with movements not being exact).
>
> Of course, I'm also very happy to look at code patches for NPC functions :-)
>
> On 07/12/11 08:30, TanLu wrote:
> >
> > Hi, OpenSim users and Justin
> >
> > I’m a PhD student and my research focus on agent-based simulation of crowd
evacuation in fire emergency. Now I’m
trying
> > to implement such a simulation in OpenSim and I found the NPCs are really
useful which can be used to mimic the
> > pedestrian behavior. So far I am able to create NPCs using the
script-based approach and make them moving around
> > according to some designed rules, but I still have some problems.
> >
> >
> > (1) I wander if the NPCs can be treated like an object, which can be
scripted? Now, I can only use a NPC List in the
> > main script to control several NPCs at once, and this leads to a lot of
“for-loop”. Is it possible to make each NPC to
> > have its own script, so that I can use the llRezObject function in the
main script to generate NPCs with script?
> >
> >
> > (2) When I click the NPC under the building mode, the three axes appear as
usual. But when I try to move the NPC by
> > dragging it along the axis, the NPC disappears once I release the mouse
button. Moreover, through the
osGetAvatarList()
> > function, I find the NPC is still in the region! I wander is this a bug on
the current NPC function, or did I do
> > something wrong?
> >
> >
> > Could you please kindly help to solve my problems? Any comments or
suggestions would be highly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Many thanks for your attention and look forward to your reply.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tan Lu
> >
> > *****************************************************
> > Tan Lu
> > Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
> > Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building
> > The Chinese University of Hong Kong
> > Shatin, Hong Kong
> > Tel: 852-2609 7257
> > Fax: 852- 2603 7470
> > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >
> >
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