Really Useful Chatbot Animesh Pro Edition Version 8.0

A chat bot script to create simple NPCs (Non Player Character) in your sim. For hours of interactive roleplay fun!

The Pro Edition is more powerful than the Standard Edition with more memory and more features:
- set how near or far your NPC will detect avatars in its proximity to interact with
- configure different greetings (or emotes) for avatars your NPC 'meets' for the first time vs return visitors
- configure different greetings (or emotes) your NPC will say to the owner
- provide chat phrases (or emotes) which your NPC will say randomly and how often (using a notecard)
- provide responses to key words / phrases which your NPC hears in public chat (using a notecard)
- interactive chatter capabilities with configurable weights to multiple possible answers (using one or more notecards acting as 'brain files')
- SmartAttention feature to detect distance and direction of speaker to decide if bot is being spoken to

The Animesh Pro Edition has all the features of the Pro Edition, PLUS more new features:
- have your animated object ("animesh") NPC to play an animation
- have your animesh NPC to rez an object from its Contents
- configure a private channel which your users can talk to your NPC

If you don't like the look of the mesh model, you can move the scripts to another object you own.

☀ KEY FEATURES
• Configure different greetings (or emotes) your NPC will say to the owner/new visitors/return visitors by specifying in *Chat notecard
• Ability to support exact or partial match for keyword/keyphrase to give a response by specifying in *Responses notecard
• Response supports clickable links to SL locations (slurl)
• Response supports clickable links to avatar profile pages
• Ability to support emotes (ie. /me turns its head toward you) ✓
• Ability to incorporate avatar names (choice of display name or legacy name) the NPC detects in its greeting or response ✓
• Ability to specify pauses between chat responses ✓
• Ability to give out landmarks, notecards and other inventory items ✓
• Ability to guess gender based on avatar body shape, and use appropriate gender title (eg. Sir or Madam) by specifying in *Chat notecard ✓
• Ability for owner to 'take over' chat silently by using a owner channel to make the NPC say something or emote something ◆
• Periodic chat phrases can be turned off / on through verbal command (ie. quiet mode or chatty mode) ◆
• Switch for NPC to become invisible when it does not sense any nearby avatars ◆
• Ability for anyone to communicate to NPC via private channel ◆
• Switch for NPC to rotate to face nearest avatar it senses ◆
• Touch by owner will make script report on which avatars are in their sensor range and which avatars are in their long term memory ("met" before)
• If memory is low, the long term memory (list of avatars met before) will be flushed to avoid script error
Instructions for features marked ✓ can be found in the notecard called "2. User Guide for *Chat and *Response notecards".
Instructions for features marked ◆ can be found in the notecard called "3. Advanced Instructions".

☀ ANIMESH PRO EDITION FEATURES
✶ More memory than Standard Edition
✶ Interactive chatter capabilities with configurable weights to multiple possible answers (using one or more notecards acting as 'brain files') ▶
✶ SmartAttention feature to detect distance and direction of speaker to decide if bot is being spoken to ▶
✶ Ability to set name of NPC by specifying in *Chat notecard (use #BOTNAME). This is used for Interactive Chatter feature ▶
✶ Ability to turn SmartAttention feature on or off for Responses and Chatter by specifying in *Chat notecard ▶
✶ Ability to change default owner channel to any integer by specifying in *Chat notecard (use #OWNERCHANNEL)
✶ Ability to switch textures on NPC by specifying link number and texture UUIDs in *Chat notecard (use #BODYTEXTURE)
★ Ability for animated object (animesh) to play animation