[Opensim-users] OSSL NPC functions available here

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 12/08/11 05:35, Henry Wills wrote:
> 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.

An NPC is a Non Player Character, as you say.

>
> On 8/11/11, Justin Clark-Casey<jjustincc at googlemail.com>  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,
>>
>> --
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