alice-teacher Amusement Park - making objects solid

[Emily Higgins]

I, too have trouble with disappearing into the ground.  Any suggestions?

Emily Higgins

On Thursday, October 6, 2011, Milbury, Michael <MilburM at culver.org> wrote:
> One thing you can do is to use one of the distance functions for objects
to detect when their center’s are a certain distance from each other.  If
you go inside this distance, you can essentially make it so the object
bounces off the other object it is approaching.  I hope this makes some
sense.  Our student created video games for a major project and had to
incorporate this idea.
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> From: alice-teachers-bounces+milburm=culver.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu[mailto:
alice-teachers-bounces+milburm=culver.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of
Bill Kranz
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 8:32 AM
> To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: alice-teacher Amusement Park - making objects solid
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> Hi All!
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> I am new to Alice and am exploring the program with my programming club
first.
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> I have downloaded Alice 2.2 and am running on Windows machines.
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> The students asked the following questions that I hope I can get some
answers here or at least a point in the right direction/tutorial.
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> In the amusement park example world, I have had a student add an object
(Angel for example) and then use that object as the vehicle for the camera.
He then uses the arrow keys to get the object to explore the amusement park
world.  How do you get an object to not go through other objects while using
the keyboard arrow keys?
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> Also in the amusement park world, when you explore the world, you slowly
sink into the ground (the camera angle is not level with the ground).  How
do you change this?
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> Thanks, in advance, for your help.  Also, if this is not the right forum
for this type of question, let me know where a good place would be.
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> Bill Kranz
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> Computer Technology Teacher
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> Liberty Common High School
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> 1-970-672-5500 x480
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