metabot

Virtual Reality bot with scripting.

Building

Libraries

You will need openssl, lua5.1, and json-c development libraries installed.

Compiling

autoreconf -i
./configure
make

Will produce the binary src/metabot

Commands

open

open('/home/user/MyBot.bot')

Loads bot configuration file, connects to specified server, joins specified room.

list

list()

Lists currently running bots.

select

select("MyBot2")

Selects the bot you want to interact with for other commands (say, kill, etc.)

say

say("Hello")

Sends a chat message through the currently selected bot.

kill

kill()

Shuts down and unloads currently seleted bot

Bot configuration files (*.bot)

{
  "server": "beta.vrsites.com",
  "port": 5567,
  "name": "MyBot",
  "owner": "Me",
  "avatar_file": "/full/path/to/avatars/bot.avatar",
  "room": "http://www.janusvr.com/index.html",
  "position": {
    "pos":"1.5 0 -5.0",
    "dir":"0 0 0",
    "view_dir":"0 0 0",
    "up_dir":"0 0 0",
    "head_pos":"0 0 0"
   }
}

Avatar files (*.avatar)

<FireBoxRoom>
  <Assets>
    <AssetObject id=^body^ src=^http://avatars.vrsites.com/chibii/body_male.obj^ mtl=^http://avatars.vrsites.com/chibii/mtls3/body_male13.mtl^ />
    <AssetObject id=^head^ src=^http://avatars.vrsites.com/chibii/head_male.obj^ mtl=^http://avatars.vrsites.com/chibii/mtls3/head_male13.mtl^ />
  </Assets>
  <Room>
    <Ghost id=^BOTNAME^ js_id=^2^ scale=^1.00000 1.00000 1.00000^ head_id=^head^ head_pos=^0.000000 0.750000 0.000000^ body_id=^body^ />
  </Room>
</FireBoxRoom>

Note that Ghost id is set to BOTNAME. This will be replaced with whatever name is defined in the .bot file.

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