Shoutbox

Showing those crazy MS agent characters


First the user must have a MS agent installed for this example we will use Merlin
Download him here...
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/d/b/1dbe...f3c4669/Merlin.exe

for more agents see here http://www.msagentring.org/chars.htm


Code to load your character

code:

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//open a new object of the agent control
var Agents = new ActiveXObject("agent.control.2");
Agents.Connected = true;

//now to load our character into that control.
Agents.Characters.Load("Merlin","C:\\WINDOWS\\msagent\\chars\\Merlin.acs");
var merlin = Agents.Characters.Character("Merlin");

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To show him you do

code:

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merlin.Show();

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To hide him you do

code:

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merlin.Hide();

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To make him speak you do (must be showing to speak this)

code:

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merlin.Speak('dt is your master now');

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To make him think

code:

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merlin.Think("Oh wow im thinking ");

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each character also has gestures which they can do like...
to make merlin lift his arms and then point to the right..

code:

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merlin.Play("GestureUp");
merlin.Play("GestureRight");

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To move a character you do

code:

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merlin.MoveTo(300,200);

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which makes merlin to a crazy flying animation to that point



This code shows merlin  makes him fly to a point  then say hello , raise his hands and then hide.

code:

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//open a new object of the agent control
var Agents = new ActiveXObject("agent.control.2");
Agents.Connected = true;

//now to load our character into that control.
Agents.Characters.Load("Merlin","C:\\WINDOWS\\msagent\\chars\\Merlin.acs");
var merlin = Agents.Characters.Character("Merlin");

merlin.Show();
merlin.MoveTo(300,200);
merlin.Speak('Hello');
merlin.Play("GestureUp");
merlin.Hide();

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To make your agent speak what hes saying outloud you need to install the MS speech stuff
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/agent2/tv_enua.exe
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/sapi/spchapi.exe