[Opensim-dev] NPC Module?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

John Sheridan wrote:
> I've been doing a bit of digging around inside the OpenSim code these 
> past few days and I noticed a few sections which appear to be sort of a 
> built in non-playing character.  It almost appears to be a sim based 
> avatar or bot.  I was wondering how far along this is and if its ready 
> for use?  If so, would anyone happen to have a quick tutorial or example 
> to work off of?

I can't remember seeing one off the top of my head - I'm not sure exactly how functional those sections of code are 
right now.

> 
> Right now as an alternative to using the inventory based library as I'm 
> running in grid mode (not to mention each attempt at importing directly 
> to the library has failed horribly) I'm currently storing an aweful lot 
> of assets in world using freely copyable boxes.  While this works well 
> as a temporary fix until a better solution for the inventory based 
> library can be formed, it also tends to eat alot of the server's memory 
> - so much so that I've had to limit that one server down to three sims 
> meanwhile another of the same configuration is able to handle eight. 
> 
> While poking around I came up with the idea of an OS function that could 
> be used to give inventory items out of a script owner's inventory, 
> however I cant seem to figure out how exactly to get that to work.  So 
> far the only functions I could find only seem to work using a prim's 
> inventory.  While I'm still digging around for a solution on that one 
> (my apologies as I'm a bit of a newbie to the OpenSim code base), as an 
> alternative I wonder if an NPC / bot based method could also work 
> wherein an NPC module could be setup to respond to certain chat commands 
> and then give items or folders from its own inventory. 

Perhaps you could give it a bit more detail about this.  What problem are you looking to solve that can't be handled by 
prim inventory or the built in library?  I don't yet understand why you need to take this approach.

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