User:BUTTONpUSHER Jones/pet protocol/pet protocol

pet protocol

The goal is to develop a protocol that would allow pets to communicate and interact with other pets and avatars.

1) easy to understand and modify
2) open source which anyone can copy for free from the forum.
 - Please do not post your ideas to this thread if you don't want other people to use it. =]
 - It is completely acceptable if you wish to use any or all of the code in this post in your pets and sell them for profit.

We need some scale to show where the animal fits into the food chain and show what other animals would be concidered a threat, prey, or playmate.

food chain 0.0 - 1.0
*This scale is off the top of my head and Very likely to be changed.*
0.0 grass
0.1 sheep
0.15 birds, mice
0.2 house cats
0.3 dogs
0.7 hippo
0.8 shark
0.9 lion
1.0 godzilla

A pet will chat it's status on a the introduction channel (9000) once every 10 seconds.

(If 2 pets decide they want to chase each other they agree to communicate more often on some other channel.. need to think about that more.)

Here are the attributes to be chatted every 10 seconds.
    attribute       example
    fight           0.3 what would the pet approach
    flee            0.4 what would the pet run from
    type            dog
    subtype     beagle
    action            chase, hide, beg, eat
    target          sylvester/grass/bp (use target's key instead of name?)
    offsetR     relative offset from target. <-5,0,0> would follow 5m behind target
    offsetA     absolute offset from target. <-5,0,0> would follow 5m west of target
- - - -
    inferred info (can be detected when the pet chats)
    name    spot (pet's name = object name)
    key         a0deec52-f289-7608-7064-a8bcf480e6d8
    distance   distance in meters, often a radius

now to list some behaviors or "action" (a + sign indicates a target is required - such as another pet or avatar)
+ eat
+ chase
+ avoid
+ follow/swarm/flock
+ bump/push
+ ride/perch
+ mimic
    play_dead
    speak
    sit
    stay
    sleep
+ jump_over
    dig
+ circle
+ play_tag
+ beg
    find
    give/deliver
    retrieve/fetch
    meet
    face/look

example introduction string:
"introduction + fight|0.3 + flee|0.4 + type|dog + subtype|beagle + action|watching + target|owner + offsetR| <-5,0,0> + group|6500"

example command string:
"command + action|follow + target|mykey + offsetR|<-5,0,0>"

[ question + knowncommands|1 ]

[ answer + knowcommands|1 +  follow|"" + sit|"" ]