[WF-Scripting] AI scripting

[Timothy A. Musson]

Hello,

I introduced myself about a week ago.  I'm waiting for a power supply to
arrive so I can put my Linux box together. Hopefully, that will happen
this week/weekend. My goal is to have the beginning steps that Bryce
mentions in the email below completed by the end of this weekend. I
was wanting to help with the Cyphesis Newbie's Guide, so I'll be taking
notes on how my install goes, but is the newbie guide supposed to cover
installation or just scripting? I plan to document pretty much everything I
learn anyway (for my own good). Are there any works-in-progress in
this area that aren't already up on the web page?

-Tim



At 11:19 AM 3/4/01 , Hans W. Uhlig wrote:
>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?  
>> 
>>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Bryce Harrington     bryce @ neptune.net   
>> bryceharrington @ yahoo.com
>> 
>> 
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