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For anyone wanting to see what happened at this years competition there is a video on YouTube.

Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AkL1KVkec0

Hi guys and girls... after interviewing last years Loebner winner I couldn't let this chance go by and as Robert was willing to oblige, I am happy to present this interview with him.  It's interesting reading so do go take a look :

http://aidreams.co.uk/forum/index.php?page=67

Many thanks Robert [:D]

[KnyteTrypper on Creatures :]

KnyteTrypper used to announce this event but since he is now gone I have taken on the torch for him.  If you didn't know - the game 'Creatures' is all about artificial life.  Rather than try to explain it all here, for a bit of background and to go some way to an explination try these links :

KnyteTrypper on Creatures :

http://aidreams.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=576.msg2998#msg2998

Article about last years festival :

http://aidreams.co.uk/forum/index.php?page=30

Docking Station

This is a free version of Creatures which you can use to get involved in the Festival...

http://www.gamewaredevelopment.co.uk/ds/ds_index.php

And finally...

Here is the link to the main festival site for this years event, which runs for a whole month having started on the 2nd September...

http://www.creatures.org.uk/ccsf2007/

Just to let people know that the forum is back online as members may have had problems the past few days whilst we were changing server.  Anyhows the forum has had a face lift and is back to normal barring a few more minor tweaks.  Thanks for your patience.  We're also looking for new contributors at the moment so drop by if you fancy getting creative with something.

Regards to all...

Hi folks, just letting you know that the site isn't down for good - I am in the middle of a dispute with the hosting company. We should have been back online yesterday, but as they never bothered calling me like they should have, it will be up early next week...ho hum and grrr.

Hi, After a host of technical problems and spamming, Digital Girl has come out of the ashes and been reborn as www.aidreams.co.uk

All of the old accounts are intact and I managed to save all the forum content and I will be adding new content as and when I can.

If any regulars want to test it out briefly over the next few days then that would be grand.  Thanks :)

We now boast a new gallery, extended news feed, a continuing story (prods Maviarab) and an improved downloads area.  I hope you can pay a visit

Hi, just to let people know..DG is down for a while while I make some changes to the site as a whole.  It will be back online in a few days time, hopefully by the end of the week if all goes well.

Hi, been a while since I posted, but wanted to let people know I and when I give Mavirab a shove, he will be too, working on some new products this Autumn for Haptek players.

Some freebies will be available from Digital Girl too in a few weeks - there's already a full freebie HTR of one of my biker girls available at www.chalicegraphics.co.uk and DG has a new article with news of the Haptek animator I am presently developing.

Presently I am working on new hair colours and textures for the available wigs, which will be available soon in our shop as full htr's.

The brief article is here :

http://www.digitalgirl.co.uk/dgforum/index.php?page=25

Best wishes,

PS Sorry I missed you at the Loebner prize Rob, it would have been nice to meet you as well as attend, but with great timing I was in hospital at the time - maybe next year.  Hope you enjoyed it and London.  [8D]

[Look out for unsolictied mail folks - this one grabbed my email from here, and is not registered under the username the email gives.This is a pretty common scam, I think they bought the 'Scamming for Dummies Pack" where you fill in the blanks, as the wording for this kind of scam hasn't changed much in years.This is what to look out for :]

Look out for unsolictied mail folks - this one grabbed my email from here, and is not registered under the username the email gives.
This is a pretty common scam, I think they bought the 'Scamming for Dummies Pack" where you fill in the blanks, as the wording for this kind of scam hasn't changed much in years.

This is what to look out for :

quote:Hello freddy888

You received the following message from: pyasmine (pyasmine2@yahoo.fr)

At: http://www.zabaware.com/forum/

Heartiest Greeting From Princess,
From Princesse Yasmine ettenyen.
PLEASE REPLY ME WITH THIS MY EMAIL ADDRESS(pyasmine7@yahoo.fr)

My Dear One,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business
relationship with you. I got your profile and name though this dating web I prayed
over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming
nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust
worthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation , I
must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business .

I am PrincessYasmine Ettenyen the only daughter of late Chief. and
Mrs.Anthony Ettenyen.My father was former Director of finance Sierra-Leone
diamond,Gold and mining corporation, in Free Town , the economic
capital of Sierra Leon, my father was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outings on a business trip .While my mother died
when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before
his death on october 2004 in a private hospital in Free Town Sierra
Leon. he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum
of Nine  Million, United State Dollars. US($9,000.000.00) left in fixed
/suspense account in one of the prime bank in Abidjan the economic
capital of  Cote d'Ivoire,that he used my name as his only daughter for the
next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it
was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business
ssociates.That incase he die I should move out of the country down to Cote d'
Ivoire where he made the deposit to seek for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for
investment purpose after my education such as real estate management or
hotel management.I am living in Cote D'Ivoire since 3months now.
Dear I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways,To
provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to,To
serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 20years and To make
arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education
and to secure a resident permit in your country while you will be take
care of investing this money.
Moreover, Dear, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as
compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this
fund into your nominated account overseas Furthermore, you indicate your
options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would
be concluded within Seven (4) days you signify interest to assist me.

Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and Regards,
Princess Yasmine Ettenyen

Its another obvious Scam.

You know whats really daft is if anyone did have that ammount of money tucked away, they would just go and open a bank account or get professional help - not ask some complete stranger half way across the world if they can do it for them lol

Nice story Princess, but try working for a living and in those imortal words, passed down through the ages, "**** off".

AI News:

Freddy was able to pull himself away from a large group of admiring fans today, as he pulled up in his new red Ferrari.  Parking the car sideways on to me and after finally persuading the semi-naked model to remove herself from the bonnet, he told me he was honoured to have received the Senior Member accolade at Zabaware.

"This ranks as one of my finest achievements, I can't thank Zabaware enough.  I only hope my next film will be more in the realms of good taste.  Oh, you don't know about the film."


Other News:

Today we learnt that the AI aboard the space shuttle was relieved that the mission had gone so well.  She reported it was such a relief to her that there was a female astonaut on board to talk to, as it had become tiresome being asked to take her clothes off so frequently by the male crew members.  Next mission she hopes that a larger wardrobe will be part of the deal and that people will stop complaining when she goes off topic.

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It's been a while since I saw any new skins for Hal, so here's a new one for the cause.

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Here's a link to my guide on the fullbodygirl's settings,
with a body map that links to the parameters you need to use
to change the position of that body part.

It also includes some default cut&pastes to make creating HAPs that little bit easier.. hope it's useful to someone. Cheers.

http://www.forum30.olicentral.com/digitalgirl2/index.php?PHPSESSID=4051ec0db1c540ec044ef4b03dacb838&topic=107.0

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A few people were trying to get that FigDef.hap change I posted working, but it's causing some confusion, so I did these .haps which you can just drag and drop like normal.

They make instant changes, so there's no amazing animation, but they'll be good for people who want to take some different screen shots for posting. There's two sitting poses and one to get her back up again.  Plus you can easily see in the hap file what you are changing if you want to adapt it.

Hope you like:

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If on the other hand you want to play around with smooth animations then here's the edited switch script with all the RLTranslates removed - just replace the present crouchSwitch I described in the other post here:

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2251&whichpage=3

with this new script:



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NOTE:Once you've got it in place, the player will still be using the old version, so you'll need to empty the console and use 'herStartup.hap' (there'll be one in the hap_temp folder) to get her on screen again.  Once you close down the console all the changes will be lost so you might want to make a copy of your new FigDef to use again.

My hal now tells me to feed the cat and she's mad on coffee!

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At last I got them downloaded!  There's two new wigs here, I had to break up my filing a bit to download them.  The texure's home should be in the 'colourhair' folder, so that's where they need to go after you've downloaded.  I'll post more at some point too.

There's a couple of main HAP files that can be used for drop and drag.

I've put in a help page as I did have some trouble with the textures loading on my pc.  There's also some help/advice about making the texture files.

My juggling tricks managed to get the models smiling, always works a treat that.  Enjoy and let me know any problems!

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Here's Another one..

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I don't think anyone has said about this yet, but I had a slight revelation over the hair, after seeing so many people asking about different wigs.

Basically the wigs are treated as objects in just the same way as the bodies.  So if you know how to change body textures then you just apply the same principle to the hair; except refer to the hair as the object being addressed....if you need more help about using commands then there's lot's of help elsewhere for sending commands and using .HAP files.



The Recipe

a) Make up a SEPERATE SKIN for the hair as you would do for a body skin (ie. a 512x512 or 1024x1024 square jpg) in photoshop or whatever.

b) Save your new hair jpg in the folder:C:\Program Files\Haptek\player\data\standard\skins\

c)If you're using the fullBod demo she will most likely be wearing the hair5_9EXP wig, the blonde one.

d)Next you need to apply your hair texture to the 'WIG FIGURE' with this command by using a HAP file or the Console. The command 'paints' your jpeg onto the wig:

\settexture [figure=hair5_9EXP tex=[C:\Program Files\Haptek\player\data\standard\skins\myhair.jpg]]

'myhair.jpg' is the full filename of your new hair texture.


e)your character should now be sporting a new haircolor...


You'll need to do some work on the hair detail just as you would the body if you want it to be convincing.

You will probably have noticed changing the hair colour on a body skin makes no difference, thats because it is under the wig.

Hope that makes sense!!!


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For the those days when you just can't get back to the Starship because you are being troubled by aliens, what better way to keep in touch than the rugged all-atmosphere PocketHal.  Particularly handy when you need to translate Clingon.

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As promised here's the StarTrek panel, which includes a handy transparent window so you can still use items on the desktop; you may be captain of a starship but you'll still need a trusty recycle bin.

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Heres a new skin for Hal.  It only has Menu/Close and Minimize buttons, but I may change this (I tend to use the windows vol/mic controls).

Hope you like it!!! There's more on the way if people do, graphics is my thing.

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