AI and APCD

[Stephen Sullivan]

We had an intersting presentation on AI and libraries at our staff conference yesterday, and I immediately thought about the possibility of using it to run alongside APCD

[Colin Jones]

Yes, I think so. The possibilities now seem endless Stephen.

I am now using it alot in my work and I am just astounded at how far it (I only use very basic stuff) has come in the past 2 years.

In my younger life I can remember being told that the robots were going take over everyone's job one day. They made movies about it. Well that didnt actually happen to the extent predicted did it? But that day now looms large, just looks a little different than we (and Hollywood) ever could have imagined.

A new APCD and a new LInks 2003 maybe or stuff that runs alongside them to make them brand new. New APCD courses built in a day? A rogue Links tour - where privacy, intellectual property and copyright protections are ignored - and we all just play the latest courses in a new whizz-bang version of Links?

If AI is already now more reliable at diagnosing an illness compared to most of your local GPs (and that rate is steadily climbing), Links 2003 is hardly going to be much of a challenge for it eh?

[linkster]

It is far from utilizing the potential of AI but I did build a script using pyautogui to help automate the clicks needed to "Add vertices" to shapes for doing the terrain edges. It is not perfect, but it does help.

https://linkscorner.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2496

I have a newer script that has a move portion to the add vertices action. It is an improvement on the original and does about 75% of the clicks needed to do terrain edges. Automation is not perfect and still needs some mesh clean up after running the script.

Utilizing pyautogui with the APCD is a very real possibility. Anyone interested should look it up with a search.

My dream would be using AI with a program decompiler to get at the guts of the APCD. This would open up lots of possibilities for old software. But it is only a dream and likely not to happen.

[dwg]

A better APCD has been a long held dream.

[Colin Jones]

The current texture list drives me insane - its just too difficult to navigate in courses that have a large texture set. So I 'd just be happy with a new interface for managing the textures - drop down lists, active/inactive, a section to store notes/description about each, a tabular look at all your textures so you can see at a glance which you've seam blended and how they've been used, a default setting when creating new textures (not this copying caper), adding proper texture properties that can easily be modified etc etc etc. Perhaps even a smart feature where it use the optimum texture size based on its current use (best graphics v space).

If someone can ever get to the core of the APCD (Linkster?) and just give me a proper texture management system, I'd take it before eliminating any of the bugs and crashes.