alice-teacher Turning a light "on" in Alice 3

[Donald Slater]

James is correct, the lights in Alice 3 are from the Sims 2 library, and did not have separate “light” properties that could be manipulated. 

James suggestion is a good one. Another possibility would be to manipulate the Scene lighting and Fog properties to create a lighting effect… See the attached image…



This may be enough for your purposes, as these settings would apply to the entire Scene. 

If I wanted to create a spotlight effect, I might try to add a sphere object to serve as the spotlight around the object, and play with opacity settings and the environmental lighting / fog to see if I get what I want.  See the second attached image… You can see the atmospheric settings, fog, and I set the opacity of the sphere to .4.



Certainly not great, but it might be worth playing with.

All the best,
Don Slater




> On Mar 1, 2023, at 1:12 PM, Vanderhyde, James <vanderhyde at sxu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Did anyone answer this one? There is no way to control the lights in Alice 3. You can just change the color of the built-in lights.
> 
> James
> —
> James Vanderhyde
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> Computer Science
> Saint Xavier University
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> On Feb 23, 2023, at 12:03 PM, Carlos Bovell via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> We found several types of lights to choose from in Alice 3 but how can we turn them "on" and "off" in a world? In Alice 2 we could use light bulbs, but is there any comparative object available in Alice 3?
> 
> Thanks for taking my email.
> 
> -Carlos
> 
> Carlos Bovell
> Mathematics and Computer Science
> Northern Burlington High School 
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