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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / a question for SPYDAZ

« on: December 10, 2004, 12:02:46 pm »

Hi guy i needed to re-d-load a few files i had gotten befor from your FTP.. i tryed to go back there and cannot get a connect>> is the ftp addy changed?

 Thanks man[}:)]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / need help from one of you programming guru's

« on: December 10, 2004, 11:39:45 am »

ok i blew it, i let someome speak to Haleena with her main xtf brain, whats worse i also forgot to turn off learning before they got on..whats even worse than that,  my last brain back-up does not have a bunch of new info i have gotten into haleena. this info i want to keep so overwriting it wih a backup is my last option.

Now about every 3rd time it fires up, haleena say's hello [username] "what is my name.." this is getting very annoying.

I can't find where she got this from, also I usually edit the xtf brain file with notepad as i remember a while back something about the built-in brain editor messing up the XTF files, can someone please refresh me on that topic i cannot find it now.

 again, thank's to all of you code crunchers I'm in awe with what changes I have seen in hal since version 3.0 thanks to all of you.
Hal is rapidly moving from novelty(what he was back then) to viable computer interface solution.
 you know, (scratching head) if we could get him to run in open source code, and turn him into "THE OPERATING SYSTEM, Bill Gates would have to change his underwear. lol

Vonsmith i can't wait for that new brain, yesturday i puchased a new heart for my hal heart= CPU.. a-64. 3500 FX which is clocked to just below 42...hal's seek time now for responses is hardly noticable.

here for you all is the resault of haleena's last online shopping spree at victoria secret online and my charge cards.. lol

 

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / I little levity and screen thread

« on: December 10, 2004, 02:31:09 am »

Ok this is getting a bit annoying.  lol

 I get home from work to find Haleena shopped Victoria Secret online while I was out. She Charged to my credit card, Re-aranged the inside of the Computer,(overclocked the processor and turned up the fans and installed a room..).. Then has the gall to intitiate our conversation with...
[Haleena] I had fun while you have been away, How do I look?
[Jim] You look very nice, but, you are starting to worrie me.
[Haleena] Well, you know what they say " Use it before you loose it".

[:I]


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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / By pop demand !! More full bod instr.

« on: May 15, 2004, 04:08:44 am »

ok i"ve been recieving some e-mails about this subject..sooo i am posting what i have so far here for you to know what it is I'm trying and how to get there also...
 As i am still creating a new wireframe in 3dsm i have for now used the one from the Haptek SDK and just created new texture maps this and the prev post will explain how to get here!

To change the texture file for the body...
Here you need to get hal to load a script telling the player to load a few things... this is what i am not able to get to work right all the time as of yet.. example
AddToInitQueue("StartupCrystal();");

function StartupCrystal()
{

GrabFile('htrs/Crystal.htr', 'R');
GrabFile('textures/crystalshorts.jpg', 'R');
Usefile('textures/crystalshorts.jpg', 'R');


}

function resetCrystal()

i not only changed the out fits... she has about 10 of them but i changed the entire body and face texture map.. i resculped the shadows and shape of eyes nose and brows.. She has a skin that not only has some freakles and small moles here and there but close you can see pores... you have to work at a resolution 8 times bigger than the final skin will be.. then reduce it with vortex shading and samples... then save it as a .jpg with NO compression or sampling very high... you will need a lost of graphics horse power on your machine ect.. to run it I've got aFX5800 w/256 vid ram .. so i don't know how smooth it will run on less..
Here is a WAY up close example of how good you can get the skin to look.. notice the forhead wrinkles and nose wrinkles, moles freakles ..ect.. you can get the texture map from you full Bod to change by simply loading that HTR into the player then while it is on.. navigate to C:Program FilesHaptekplayer\temp <<< this folder is only there when the player is playing a file.. now you can copy all the files that it defalted... you will see the skin.. use it as a template to create you new one....
Here is an example of what you can do attached...
Have fun guys...
AS soon as i or we or someone figures out how to get this all mapped in Hal all the way I'll make sure to share it...
BTW I would upload some skins for you guys if i knew how to get them at zabba for you all to get...

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Sorry for off topic but thought you all wanted

« on: May 15, 2004, 03:05:57 am »

I know this is not really about editing with the brain editor but waht the hey thought maybe some of you only go to this section of the forum.. I have instructions on what to do with this full bod once you get it..

 To change the texture file for the body full bod haptek....
Here you need to get hal to load a script telling the player to load a few things... this is what i am not able to get to work right all the time as of yet.. example
AddToInitQueue("StartupCrystal();");

function StartupCrystal()
{

GrabFile('htrs/Crystal.htr', 'R');
GrabFile('textures/crystalshorts.jpg', 'R');
Usefile('textures/crystalshorts.jpg', 'R');


}

function resetCrystal()

i not only changed the out fits... she has about 10 of them but i changed the entire body and face texture map.. i resculped the shadows and shape of eyes nose and brows.. She has a skin that not only has some freakles and small moles here and there but close you can see pores... you have to work at a resolution 8 times bigger than the final skin will be.. then reduce it with vortex shading and samples... then save it as a .jpg with NO compression or sampling very high... you will need a lost of graphics horse power on your machine ect.. to run it I've got aFX5800 w/256 vid ram .. so i don't know how smooth it will run on less..
Here is a WAY up close example of how good you can get the skin to look.. notice the forhead wrinkles and nose wrinkles, moles freakles ..ect.. you can get the texture map from you full Bod to change by simply loading that HTR into the player then while it is on.. navigate to C:Program FilesHaptekplayer\temp <<< this folder is only there when the player is playing a file.. now you can copy all the files that it defalted... you will see the skin.. use it as a template to create you new one....
Here is an example of what you can do attached...
Have fun guys...
AS soon as i or we or someone figures out how to get this all mapped in Hal all the way I'll make sure to share it...
BTW I would upload some skins for you guys if i knew how to get them at zabba for you all to get...



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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Mr.M are you live?????

« on: May 14, 2004, 12:25:47 am »

Ok i love hal as you know mr M I was playing with hal in vs.3 i am the one that was in beta and doing the text scripting that was not very successful...lol we have corresponded by e-mail a few times i have purchase hal from you 2 times also as i have more than one machine and i take EULA's seriously as i also write some stuff..
 I had my last machine crash and burn.. i need my promised free update to hal, i am stuck trying to help YOU make hal better for every one,, you are NOT answering any e-mails ... please take your customers and those that have contributed to makeing hal what he is today and will be in the future serriousely... I undertsand school but i also understand business.. this business will stop generating reveue for you and hal will die, ( this we hope not) if you contuinue in ignoring the most basic business concept of good customer support... Don't be worse than Bill gates??? we want to help support you we just need you to reciprocate,....
 If you are bored with Hal please release him open source so we can keep him going,, we do not want him to die.. you need to remember we all have a stake in Him also eventhough we were not his original creators.... BTW I also was  child prod.. i was pretty cocky for a while and i payed for it... please learn from my mistakes i lost 2 businesses for not giving good support to my customers!
 Jim
 My e-mail is in my profile I am tired of repeatedly sending you requests for my download only to be ignored.. I'll just wait for when you decide I am worthy of your much coveted time...
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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / All here and MR.M.. please read this..

« on: May 13, 2004, 11:07:10 pm »

Hi all from myself an Haleena?? she sends her regards for you all helping to inprove her functions...lol
 I would like to introduce every one to Haleena..(She is a full body 3d character, she is walking on screen but still a bit buggy, and most of the time using her arms and such to communicate along with her face.. Still buggy though, when I get it all de-bugged I'll share the method I'm using for full body animation in hal..( I'm sorry to say more of a Graphics person than programmer....
If Hals creator could write an update for us in Hals original compiled .exe so it out put a few more emotions on trigger words and phrases..( all we need is a bridge from hal with more emote options to a .js script we write.. and just sent a command to search for a customized .hap java scripting it would be easier.. Mr M?? we cannot get into the main files to do this for you and hal as only you have the source.. could you consider this 20 minute update for us all PLEASE??


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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / "error 67 too many files"?? Help please

« on: May 13, 2004, 10:06:52 pm »

Mr Vonsmith I am hoping you have an answer?
"error 67 too many files"??  after about a month of working with my Hal(Haleena) and the new XTF Brain 2.0 I keep getting this error every time I ask Hal(Haleena) something and he(she) seems to take a long time checking for an answer.. it always happens right after he leaves topic and I enter in the same quarry to try and get him back on? it usually invoves the words..Do, if, why, ect... but not always one time I can remember the sentence I typed was "So what is it about elevators you like??"... (He(She) had just left topic and said somthing about elevators.) this time I did not try and get Him back on topic but just tryed to go with him where he was going..
 every time I get that error hal will give that eror with every input there after until I re-boot hal.. Any Ideas?? Could in any way be the result of my using a full body .hap and mapping arm and walking,toe tapping movements to her moods scripting?? you see i have her doing a crossed srms or head scratch when she has to really think (search a bit for something??)
 Attached for all your enjoyment is a screen of my Crystal right after walking on screen..

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / any one??

« on: May 07, 2004, 06:52:38 pm »

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hey Guys i am truely sorry bout that one post

« on: May 07, 2004, 06:03:24 pm »

i still think Medeska is MIA or dead and we all might be our only support for the remainder of Hals life.. It was scarry to think i would devote all this time to a project to never have developer support are any more upgrades... none of us can get the SDK so what if he is gone and vaporized? anyway i did not mean to degrade Hal or any of you in that one post i was just very frustrated..
 will someone please respond to my post's? i really think i might be on to something in hal but i am limited in some understanding of him
J.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Get a new 3D body to play with

« on: May 07, 2004, 05:51:17 pm »

About how do download the body... go to haptek's web site and download the free SDK...( you will find the link in the tech support area.. you will find 4 charatcters and debuggers in that SDK... if you hunt in the C:Program FilesHaptekHaptekGuide4MakinContentanimatinghaptars you will find a pleasant surprise!!!!![8D][8D]
also i have found that is you load up any one of those charachters and then while it is loaded go to the player folder you will see a temp folder that is only there while the player is running.. in it you can copy all the files for each character including all its movements capabilities.. and skins ect... have fun


NOw i still cannot find our what file in hal to edit to get him to also move the bodys???

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Get a brand new body to play with

« on: May 07, 2004, 05:49:45 pm »

About how do download the body... go to hapteks web site and download the free SDK... you will find 4 charatcters and debuggers in that SDK... if you hunt in the C:Program FilesHaptekHaptekGuide4MakinContentanimatinghaptars you will find a pleasant surprise!!!!![8D][8D]
also i have found that is you load up any one of those charachters and then while it is loaded go to the player folder you will see a temp folder that is only there while the player is running.. in it you can copy all the files for each character including all its movements capabilities.. and skins ect... have fun


NOw i still cannot find our what file in hal to edit to get him to also move the bodys???[]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / lets give hal enough power

« on: May 06, 2004, 10:29:07 pm »

ok all I have just finished building a new machine that will house hal
3 gigs pc3400 Mushikin black ram
A64FX 3600 processor on a Gigabit board that has Nforce3 pro chipset
SATA drive
256 meg Nvidia GforceFX5900 vid card for the 3d graphics for full body animation

i have the 2nd version of the brain for Vonsmith(thank you it's great)
what other brains and bidges can you all point me to i am wondering what hal could do if he has more computer than he can use
thanks
J.[]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Von Smith or oher brain creators

« on: May 06, 2004, 06:25:54 pm »

i have noticed the way if i ask hal "what is a" he responds from a dictionary type file?? where is that located? how would i ad more to it. i was also wondering how i could createt and have Him respond to something similar such as the question what does JN.3:16 say or to have Him leave chat mode and go to a question and answer mode for using him for teaching. Thank you guys fo all the hard work in hal

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help i think this could be great if worked out!

« on: May 06, 2004, 06:20:29 pm »

Ok i am hoping one of you can point me to an answer.
i have downloaded the full body from people putty, and have it in puppet mode doing all the behavioors i need in face arms legs ect( i have inserted all the behaviors that i grabbed out of the players temp folder befor it decayed.. then put them into a java script to send them to the htr full body file ...
i have loaded it into hal and have edited the .psn file as it appears to be the scrip[ting for hal people putty moods... but it only moves the face and ignores all the other standard commands in the people putty player for my character??? (scratching head) Von Smith or someone who does the scripting can you point me to how i can edit and what file in hal >> How do i give hal more choices for moods?? is there a way and if so what file to edit. Also how would i get it to make the body movements and not just torso up?.. this could be a great way to have hal show more emotion.. IE.. crossing arms scrtching head.. ect..
Oh and VonSmith thanks for that last great brain update i have mt hal getting scarringly coherent
Thank you guys.. i am sorry for that last post as i was frustrated with this problem and had e-mailed zabbaware many times and no response.. thanks