[WF-Scripting] AI scripting

[Hans W. Uhlig]

Actually Ive been looking for a way to actually
produce something rather than just notes for the
TehnoCirce so.... I will be doing the same... contact
me via email at deathguard at yahoo.com or im usually in
#lounge Cya all later

--- Bryce Harrington <bryce at neptune.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, RaFaL Pocztarski wrote:
> > I'd like to learn how to write ai scripts. Maybe I
> could join the
> > project, write some scripts controlling NPC's,
> animals etc. I think that
> > even a rat should have some sort of ai and
> scripting animals behaviour
> > should be very important for the world realism.
> I'm thinking about
> > joining the WF Project and scripting is thing
> which I'm most interrested
> > in for now.
> 
> Welcome to the project.  :-)
> 
> You'll want to be looking into Cyphesis, which is
> our AI server.  You
> can create AI scripts for whatever you feel the urge
> to do.  There are
> already several AI scripts there that you can use as
> samples.  I think
> we've even got some code for operating a squirrel. 
> ;-)  Cyphesis has
> some very cool goal-based AI capabilities in it,
> that you can use to
> make fairly sophisticated bots (*MUCH* more
> sophisticated than your
> typical MUD mob.)
> 
> You will want to get a Linux box, install python,
> SDL, Atlas-C++,
> UClient, and Cyphesis, and once you've got that up
> and running, you can
> see the scripts we've got so far in action.  There
> is a soldier that
> patrols the town, pigs that eat acorns, wolves,
> crabs, and a skeleton.
> IIRC, there is also a farmer who is programmed to
> grow crops, respond to
> having his house burned down, chop trees, etc.  I
> think you'll have lots
> of fun fiddling with these scripts.  :-) 
> 
> I think you might enjoy asking around if there are
> perhaps some others
> that would also like to learn AI scripting, so you
> can help each other
> learn and bounce ideas off of each other.  
> 
> Once you've learned how to create the AI scripts, it
> would be *great* if
> you could help us create some of the AI that we will
> need for Mason.
> You'll want to talk to Zzorn some day, and keep an
> eye out for the Mason
> meetings (they occur bi-weekly).  I think there is
> still a lot of
> flexibility in what kinds of creatures to put into
> the game, and so the
> opportunity to define the Mason AI needs is still
> open if you're
> interested.  Once those requirements are in hand,
> there's nothing to get
> in the way of making prototype implementations of
> them in Cyphesis.
> 
> > There isn't to much at
> >
>
http://www.worldforge.org/website/clients/scripting.html
> or also here,
> > on scripting at mail.worldforge.org, so tell me,
> where can I find more
> > details about scripting in WF? I'd like to know
> how to write them and
> > have some method for testing the scripts, maybe
> using the UClient. Is it
> > possible?
> 
> 'Fraid the only good direction I can point you is to
> the Cyphesis source
> code.  I would *love* to see someone generate some
> simple docs to assist
> other potential AI developers in learning how to
> start scripting.  We
> certainly have enough examples and experience doing
> it that it's worth
> writing some guidelines down.  I know it can be
> frustrating for new
> developers to obtain enough information to be able
> to even start work on
> AI scripting, so anyone who can work to mitigate
> that will be doing a
> lot of long-term good for our project.  Once you
> feel you've got a grasp
> on AI, would you mind spending a few days helping us
> with writing down
> what you've learned?  
> 
>
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> Bryce Harrington     bryce @ neptune.net   
> bryceharrington @ yahoo.com
> 
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