From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Mon May 4 15:17:58 2020 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 12:17:58 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 Problems with vehicle and collisions In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <7DCD8352-7B07-4907-8B38-DBEE975F5B57@andrew.cmu.edu> James, Thank you very much for sending us these worlds. It has exposed numerous issues with our collision handling and setVehicle behavior (layers of exciting problems to fix). We had been focusing on a couple of these issues as they really came to the forefront when implementing hand object collisions and pick up for VR. This example is actually way easier for us to visualize the problem and test the fixes. We will update when we have a better idea of what is going on and fixes on the way. We look forwarding to sharing out a fully functional frogger game. We greatly appreciate it when people call out these types of problems and share their worlds with us so we can improve Alice for all. Thank you again. Sincerely, Eric > On Apr 30, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Don Slater wrote: > > James, > I will be interested to see if the community has any better ideas than mine? > > I created my own version before looking at your student solution, to think about how I would do this. > > Instead of using the object mover method, I used keypress listeners to have my skunk jump forward or backward a certain amount with each press. > > I did use the collision-start listener to set the vehicle of the skunk to the log, which worked generally well, but there was some weirdness, I suspect because I was using the irregularly shaped log models from the gallery. Your student may have better luck using the blocks he has created. > > However, instead of using a collision-end event to reset the vehicle property of my skunk, I reset that property whenever there was a keypress event, (forwards or backwards). > > You may also want to play with the event optional variable ?multiple event policy? (see the attached screen shot, and set it to Ignore. I had my best success with that. I have also attached ?skunker.a3p? for you to examine. > > I also looked back through my archives to see if I had wrestled with this before. It turns out I did, but I begged the whole question by having my critter jumping across a road dodging vehicles that were moving back and forth. Those collisions were easier to manage ;-) > > Let me know how it goes? > > Don Slater > > Alice Project > > > > > >> On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: >> >> I have a student who is trying to make a Frogger-style game in Alice 3. The player needs to be able to ride logs across a river. He came up with an approach to set the vehicle of the player character to a log, when a collision event occurs. Then when the collision ends, set the vehicle back to the scene. The approach seemed sound, so I tried it in a simplified program (attached). There seems to be problems both with collision end events and with setting the vehicle. Maybe because the player character is moving? >> >> I came up with a partial fix that is still unstable but works more reliably (attached). It uses a 0-length timer to check for collisions every frame, instead of using the collision event. >> >> Any other suggestions? Or anywhere I should file an Alice 3 bug report? >> >> James >> ? >> James Vanderhyde >> Associate Professor and Department Chair >> Computer Science >> Saint Xavier University >> 3700 W. 103rd St. >> Chicago, IL 60655 >> 773-298-3454 >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > From iluvmoon at gmail.com Tue May 5 10:58:14 2020 From: iluvmoon at gmail.com (Samantha Oliver) Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 07:58:14 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Kindness Message-ID: <3F96C2CE-5090-4626-992F-FFE173A09366@gmail.com> https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/miss-samantha-oliver Please help. Thank you. A kind stranger may just donate. I don't have Facebook - would you kindly share out please? Much appreciated! May you be blessed ???? Sincerely, Samantha Oliver SPED Teacher, ILS Program Encina Preparatory High School 1400 Bell Street Sacramento, CA 95825 916.971.7538 cc: s.siebeneicheroliver at sanjuan.edu > On Apr 10, 2020, at 9:34 AM, Samantha Oliver wrote: > > ? > ? > > Dear Collegues, > > > > Good morning! I hope this email receives you in great health. I am reaching out to you for your kindness please if you may help me promote my classroom through our group list, your email, or facebook. I am but a humble new teacher without much clout and influence, hence I reach out to you to kindly help me please fund my SPED classroom. I don't know too many people in high places, but I know I have this group. Strangers helping strangers. Humanity works. Kindly help me please. I am swallowing my pride for the sake of my students. Thank you so much for your kindness and willingness to just put out my project into your universe. I appreciat it so much. My students will appreciate it very much. Please always stay safe and healthy. God bless you and thank you for everything!!! > > > > https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/miss-samantha-oliver?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=sendFriend&utm_campaign=teacher_profile&utm_term=teacher_3090012&rf=sendFriend-dc-2020-04-teacher_profile-teacher_3090012&challengeid=20637034 > > > Sincerely, > Samantha Oliver > SPED Teacher, ILS Program > Encina Preparatory High School > 1400 Bell Street > Sacramento, CA 95825 > 916.971.7538 > cc: s.siebeneicheroliver at sanjuan.edu > > > > > > Take a look at what I've requested for my students. > > If you chip in to help, you'll get awesome photos and our heartfelt thanks. > > Your support would mean so much to us. > > Thank you, > Samantha > > > > > Check it out: what I've requested for my students > > Sincerely, > Samantha Oliver > SPED Teacher, ILS Program > Encina Preparatory High School > 1400 Bell Street > Sacramento, CA 95825 > 916.971.7538 > cc: s.siebeneicheroliver at sanjuan.edu > > >>> On Apr 10, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Matjaz Marussig wrote: >>> >> ? >> Dear teachers, parents, students, >> >> I've made a site http://cloudyschool.eu/ in order to connect us more and help the young generation to take the leading role in our common future. Believe me, I'm very sure that Alice is a tool that has the most effective ingredients on influence building the next human generation. It is a 3D tool that gives to the youngest experiences and knowledge of how to learn and behave machines in the 3D space, which is most important for learning and coding real humanoid and industrial robots. It has all the basic syntaxes that have all programming languages. It has so-called gamification principles that give students extremely motivation for work and learn. It is free that means everyone can access it. >> >> Our mission is to connect us worldwide more tightly, share our experiences, spread coding evangelism and help each other. So please, help me upgrade, run, and spreading this computer science for the youngest and a little less youngest in connection to Alice's Don, Eric, and community which already exists. >> >> About me. I live in EU. I'm working with Oracle tools (coding, DB designing, DBA), planing Computer Integration Manufacturing for more than 20 years, and the last 10 years I'm teaching coding (Alice, SQL, HTML, private workshops) the youngest between 9 and 15 years old. They inspire me with their enthusiasm, motivation and of course, with smile in their faces. Every tool is a free and open-source tool that everyone can get. >> >> Right now there are two curriculums on the site under the menu for drone and virus mechanic. I send their pictures. Next work depends on our community, its activity, desires, and proposals. >> >> I invite you to connect and become active. Stay healthy and care for yourself. >> >> Sincerely, >> Matjaz >> >> >> >> >> >> --- >> Matjaz Marussig ME >> ISV >> Oracle Silver Partner >> >> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig >> Medium: https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig >> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig >> Office Email: marussig at siol.net >> Private Email: matjaz.marussig at gmail.com >> www: http://marussig.si/ >> Skypename: matjazmarussig >> Phone: 0038641508427 >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sincerely, Samantha Oliver SPED Teacher, ILS Program Encina Preparatory High School 1400 Bell Street Sacramento, CA 95825 916.971.7538 cc: s.siebeneicheroliver at sanjuan.edu Begin forwarded message: > From: Samantha Oliver > Date: May 15, 2020 at 10:03:45 PM PDT > To: mtsam99 at gmail.com > Subject: Fwd: Help me build a better classroom > > ?pls put in facebook > > Sincerely, > Samantha Oliver > SPED Teacher, ILS Program > Encina Preparatory High School > 1400 Bell Street > Sacramento, CA 95825 > 916.971.7538 > cc: s.siebeneicheroliver at sanjuan.edu > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Samantha Oliver >> Date: May 15, 2020 at 10:00:00 PM PDT >> To: Samantha >> Subject: Help me build a better classroom >> Reply-To: iluvmoon at gmail.com >> >> ? >> >> I want to make sure my students have the materials and experiences they need to succeed, so I just created a request for my classroom at DonorsChoose: >> >> SPED Students Deserve This!. >> >> If you chip in to help my students, you'll get awesome photos and our heartfelt thanks. >> >> Thanks so much, >> Samantha >> >> P.S. If you know anyone who may want to help my classroom, please pass this along! >> >> >> Check it out: SPED Students Deserve This! >> >> I sent this on DonorsChoose.org. You haven't been added to an email list. Please respond to me directly by emailing me at iluvmoon at gmail.com. >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy.woodward at me.com Mon May 18 11:52:02 2020 From: jeremy.woodward at me.com (Jeremy Woodward) Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 08:52:02 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Alice and Java 8 In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <7B8CA27E-040E-4395-98EB-3FD58337D8A9@me.com> Question: Can?t you just install the latest JRE and Alice will run just fine? Oracle has recently locked down the old Java 8 behind a registration system. Because of COPPA laws, this can be problematic for students. http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/76386062/java%20download%20and%20installation Thoughts? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu Tue May 19 15:52:29 2020 From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Slater) Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 15:52:29 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher Alice and Java 8 In-Reply-To: <7B8CA27E-040E-4395-98EB-3FD58337D8A9@me.com> References:

<7B8CA27E-040E-4395-98EB-3FD58337D8A9@me.com> Message-ID: After double checking-with our development team, please note the following information about Alice and Java: Netbeans page will work with Java 10: http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-with-netbeans/ Alice 3 hasn?t required a Java install for several builds now. I will go edit the page that indicates otherwise We recognized this would be an issue for Netbeans when Oracle changed their terms for Java JRE related to netbeans. The page we link to for getting the JDK does have a link to the free open JDK. https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html Please let us know if you have any further questions. All the best, Don Slater > On May 18, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Jeremy Woodward via alice-teachers > wrote: > > Question: Can?t you just install the latest JRE and Alice will run just fine? Oracle has recently locked down the old Java 8 behind a registration system. Because of COPPA laws, this can be problematic for students. > > http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/76386062/java%20download%20and%20installation > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Wed May 20 18:59:17 2020 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 15:59:17 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher New Alice Beta Releases Message-ID: <254BD0F3-5724-4767-AB7A-642FECAAF94C@andrew.cmu.edu> Dear All, We have released a new beta versions of both the Alice 3 IDE and the Alice 3 Player. There are a lot of good fixes in there including a fix to vehicling and our collision and proximity event handling so that the recently reported issues with the frogger world should now be resolved. Thank you again for sharing that and please continue to do so. Full list of release notes below: http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-beta-vr/ We have also released more of or our recent workshop video captures in our youtube channel. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2vYlw8bSEXRR4xZ_9hiPzqZmtCJxvvru Sincerely, Eric Alice 3 IDE ? Migration repair for fir trees and ice floes ? Correct size handling around sims models and joints ? Add sizing to Person export ? Improve setVehicle operation ? Repair Collision, Occlusion, and Proximity events ? Allow export of incomplete meshes ? Quadruped tail array export Alice Unity Player: ? New VR lobby ? Improved import of Sims people and models when resized or posed. ? Add ijkl as secondary VR joystick controls ? Bug fixes for ? Events. Better behavior. More consistent. Prevent duplicate notifications. ? Ground tiling ? Collider behavior ? Setting vehicle ? VR Hand interactions ? Display of decimal numbers ? Quadruped export of tail arrays ? Tweedle library code From wbarnum at elmhurst205.org Wed May 20 21:33:51 2020 From: wbarnum at elmhurst205.org (Barnum, William) Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 20:33:51 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher New Alice Beta Releases In-Reply-To: <254BD0F3-5724-4767-AB7A-642FECAAF94C@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <254BD0F3-5724-4767-AB7A-642FECAAF94C@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: To clarify, can we create an Alice VR world in the standard version of Alice 3? Do we just need "Alice 3 IDE Export Build" and "Alice 3 Unity Player" to export and view it respectively? Thanks, Bill On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:11 PM Eric Brown wrote: > Dear All, > > We have released a new beta versions of both the Alice 3 IDE and the Alice > 3 Player. There are a lot of good fixes in there including a fix to > vehicling and our collision and proximity event handling so that the > recently reported issues with the frogger world should now be resolved. > Thank you again for sharing that and please continue to do so. Full list > of release notes below: > > http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-beta-vr/ > > We have also released more of or our recent workshop video captures in our > youtube channel. Take a look: > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2vYlw8bSEXRR4xZ_9hiPzqZmtCJxvvru > > Sincerely, > > Eric > > Alice 3 IDE > > ? Migration repair for fir trees and ice floes > ? Correct size handling around sims models and joints > ? Add sizing to Person export > ? Improve setVehicle operation > ? Repair Collision, Occlusion, and Proximity events > ? Allow export of incomplete meshes > ? Quadruped tail array export > > Alice Unity Player: > > ? New VR lobby > ? Improved import of Sims people and models when resized or > posed. > ? Add ijkl as secondary VR joystick controls > ? Bug fixes for > ? Events. Better behavior. More consistent. Prevent > duplicate notifications. > ? Ground tiling > ? Collider behavior > ? Setting vehicle > ? VR Hand interactions > ? Display of decimal numbers > ? Quadruped export of tail arrays > ? Tweedle library code > > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On May 20, 2020, at 9:33 PM, Barnum, William wrote: > > To clarify, can we create an Alice VR world in the standard version of Alice 3? > > Do we just need "Alice 3 IDE Export Build" and "Alice 3 Unity Player" to export and view it respectively? > > Thanks, > Bill > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:11 PM Eric Brown > wrote: > Dear All, > > We have released a new beta versions of both the Alice 3 IDE and the Alice 3 Player. There are a lot of good fixes in there including a fix to vehicling and our collision and proximity event handling so that the recently reported issues with the frogger world should now be resolved. Thank you again for sharing that and please continue to do so. Full list of release notes below: > > http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-beta-vr/ > > We have also released more of or our recent workshop video captures in our youtube channel. Take a look: > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2vYlw8bSEXRR4xZ_9hiPzqZmtCJxvvru > > Sincerely, > > Eric > > Alice 3 IDE > > ? Migration repair for fir trees and ice floes > ? Correct size handling around sims models and joints > ? Add sizing to Person export > ? Improve setVehicle operation > ? Repair Collision, Occlusion, and Proximity events > ? Allow export of incomplete meshes > ? Quadruped tail array export > > Alice Unity Player: > > ? New VR lobby > ? Improved import of Sims people and models when resized or posed. > ? Add ijkl as secondary VR joystick controls > ? Bug fixes for > ? Events. Better behavior. More consistent. Prevent duplicate notifications. > ? Ground tiling > ? Collider behavior > ? Setting vehicle > ? VR Hand interactions > ? Display of decimal numbers > ? Quadruped export of tail arrays > ? Tweedle library code > > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Fri May 22 13:29:49 2020 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 10:29:49 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Recent Releases and Upgrade Path Bugs Message-ID: Dear All, It has been brought to our attention that the new beta builds have bugs related to certain upgrade paths causing duplicate files and multi version issues that will cause the application not to launch. If you are electing to use our latest and greatest beta builds please install them as a clean install to a new directory either as a separate version or delete the old and do a clean install. We will work to resolve this as soon as we can for future releases. Apologies if this complicated you getting in to work with our latest and greatest versions. Sincerely, Eric From chadley at culpeperschools.org Fri May 22 14:35:10 2020 From: chadley at culpeperschools.org (Constance Hadley) Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 14:35:10 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher Recent Releases and Upgrade Path Bugs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please unsubscribe me from the email list. I have attempted the "unsubscribe" method, but it is not working. Thank you On Fri, May 22, 2020, 1:40 PM Eric Brown wrote: > Dear All, > > It has been brought to our attention that the new beta builds have bugs > related to certain upgrade paths causing duplicate files and multi version > issues that will cause the application not to launch. If you are electing > to use our latest and greatest beta builds please install them as a clean > install to a new directory either as a separate version or delete the old > and do a clean install. We will work to resolve this as soon as we can for > future releases. Apologies if this complicated you getting in to work with > our latest and greatest versions. > > Sincerely, > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are electing to use our latest and greatest beta builds please install them as a clean install to a new directory either as a separate version or delete the old and do a clean install. We will work to resolve this as soon as we can for future releases. Apologies if this complicated you getting in to work with our latest and greatest versions. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Eric >> >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: