<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In the Scene Setup section, click on the "more controls" button. This section will expand, and you will see a button to "drop dummy" at marker.<div><br></div><div>For each of the fish:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- select a fish</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- click on the drop dummy for selected object button</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- you will see the dummy object appear in a Dummy's folder in the object tree</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- find the newly created dummy object and rename it</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- set the vehicle of the dummy to its corresponding fish (so that it will move as the fish moves)</div><div><br></div><div>When it comes time for the fish to scatter for each dummy marker, in the program code</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- reset the vehicle of the dummy to the world</div><div><br></div><div>When the fish are ready to return to formation, for each fish</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- have the fish set its point of view to its respective dummy</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- reset the vehicle of the dummy back to its corresponding fish</div><div><br></div><div>Important point: You have to set up the dummy markers when setting up the scene. Alice does not allow you to create any objects, from the gallery, or dummy markers, while a program is running.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have been working with arrays (not lists), this becomes an interesting problem using parallel arrays of fish and dummys.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Don Slater</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Apr 16, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Steve Hollis <<a href="mailto:steve_hollis@brentwoodacademy.com">steve_hollis@brentwoodacademy.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>This is my first year teaching Alice. It's been great so far. My 12th grade students have a final project assignment. They are animating a children's book using the various techniques we have learned all year. One of my students has run into a problem that I am not sure how to solve.</div><div><br></div><div>He is animating the book Swimmy. He has a lot of fish objects arranged in the shape of a larger fish. As part of the story, he wants the fish to disperse and then come back into the shape of the larger fish.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a way to capture the position of objects in a scene and bookmark it similar to the way you can set up scenes? I didn't know if a pose capture would work since each piece of the larger fish is an individual object.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that question made sense.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div>Steve Hollis</div><div>Instructor of Science, English, and Computer</div><div>Brentwood Academy</div><div>219 Granny White Pike</div><div>Brentwood, TN 37027</div><div>615-373-0611 x 182</div><div><a href="http://www.brentwoodacademy.com/">www.brentwoodacademy.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><span><unknown.png></span></span>
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