{"id":2728,"date":"2013-02-11T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2013-02-11T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:03:35","slug":"the-incomplete-pathfinding-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"The Incomplete Pathfinding Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hidden away on the Second Life Wiki, well not hidden very well, you’ll find the pathfinding cookbook<\/a>. Described as a ready made solutions for some critters, it has some interesting concepts, it’s also incomplete or written with invisible ink.<\/p>\n

In terms of interesting concepts we have such potential solutions as:<\/p>\n

Sentient Treasure Chest<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Treasure chest with legs. Sleeps, but runs and hides if anyone approaches.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which makes me wonder if a wizard called Rincewind is having some input over at Linden Lab! There are sections for dogs, cats, rats, snakes, vultures which all sound like feasible critters people may want to engage with and then we get:<\/p>\n

Hopping Scarecrow<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wanders about hopping and approaches random people, lingers and moves on.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmmmm!<\/p>\n

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I like the concept of pathfinding but like the pathfinding cookbook, it feels incomplete. The lack of a rigged skeleton for non player characters being a rather large missing piece of the jigsaw, the tier being too damn high being another because people aren’t likely to create too many creative pathfinding sims whilst tier is so high, on the other hand you can make a pathfinding solution on a small parcel.<\/p>\n

What the whole pathfinding project is crying out for is the highlighting of some good examples of pathfinding in use. I’ve seen a few comments in pathfinding discussions along the lines of “What can you do with it?<\/em>” now as we know in Second Life, people’s imaginations can run wild and come up with some chaotic solutions as to what can be done with things, it’s the beauty and beast of Second Life and user generated content. For example you’ll see something and think “Wow good idea<\/em>” and then you’ll see another use case and think “Oh come on, you didn’t have to use if for that!<\/em>“, although in the latter case some people will think “Wow good idea<\/em>” too.<\/p>\n

The whole pathfinding thing seems to have gone a little quiet, maybe the arrival of a sentient treasure chest could get the project moving again.<\/p>\n

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