<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Leonel,<div class="">These are really interesting suggestions, and I will pass them along to the development team…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alice Team</div><div class="">Carnegie Mellon University</div><div class="">5000 Forbes Avenue</div><div class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15213</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Email: <a href="mailto:don@alice.org" class="">don@alice.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br class="">--- Henry David Thoreau</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Leonel Morales <<a href="mailto:litomd@gmail.com" class="">litomd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Don,<br class=""><br class="">That's good news!<br class=""><br class="">Besides, is it possible to have a simple classes like the geometric<br class="">objects available, that can be easily created for specific purposes?<br class=""><br class="">What I am thinking is this: suppose you need a method in a class that<br class="">works differently in another class, a sort of polymorphism. I think<br class="">that's not possible right now but from simple classes, one for each<br class="">variation of the method, you can have a single name for a method in<br class="">each class that then calls the specific methods in the other classes.<br class=""><br class="">It would be like if object markers could be treated like classes that<br class="">can have methods, functions and properties but in fact are never shown<br class="">in the scene.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class=""><br class="">Leonel<br class=""><br class="">2015-02-10 9:32 GMT-06:00, Don Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Yes. We do intend to support importing user created models. A fist step to<br class="">that implementation has been adding the feature that allows the user to<br class="">export modified Alice classes and import them into other projects. (So that<br class="">a Walking Mad Hatter built in one project can now be exported, and then<br class="">added to other projects.)<br class=""><br class="">The issue is that, unlike Alice 2, where object classes are essentially part<br class="">of a flat hierarchy, in order to support true object oriented programming,<br class="">the Alice Gallery is hierarchical, and when people create their own objects,<br class="">they actually have to think in terms of creating a class, and how that class<br class="">will fit within the overall inheritance hierarchy. Which means we have to<br class="">specify in much more detail the underlying skeleton of the class, so that<br class="">imported objects have the same skeleton, or the animations will not work.<br class=""><br class="">And we have not yet finalized the skeletons for some of the objects. For<br class="">example, we have just recently started to implement the tails of animals as<br class="">arrays, to create more realistic, and at the same time, simpler to implement<br class="">animations.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your patience.<br class=""><br class="">Don Slater<br class="">Alice Team<br class="">Carnegie Mellon University<br class="">5000 Forbes Avenue<br class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15213<br class=""><br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:don@alice.org" class="">don@alice.org</a><br class=""><br class="">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances<br class="">confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life<br class="">he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br class="">--- Henry David Thoreau<br class=""><br class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:53 PM, Aaron Glendinning <<a href="mailto:aglendinning@sd73.bc.ca" class="">aglendinning@sd73.bc.ca</a>><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Is it ever going to be possible? From the research I've done, they said<br class="">they were working on importing 3 years ago?<br class=""><br class=""> Aaron Glendinning<br class=""> Animation / Drafting / Programming<br class=""> Valleyview Secondary School<br class=""><br class="">----- Original Message -----<br class="">From: "Don Slater" <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br class="">To: "Alice Teachers" <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br class="">Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 3:33:27 PM<br class="">Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3 - Creating your own template or props<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">It is not possible to import 3D objects into Alice at this time, but it is<br class="">possible to import 2D images as billboards…<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I am not quite sure what you mean by templates? Starter worlds?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Sorry,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Don Slater<br class="">Alice Team<br class="">Carnegie Mellon University<br class="">5000 Forbes Avenue<br class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15213<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:don@alice.org" class="">don@alice.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances<br class="">confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life<br class="">he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br class="">--- Henry David Thoreau<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:59 AM, MARLEANA RANK < <a href="mailto:MARANK@GREENWOOD.K12.WI.US" class="">MARANK@GREENWOOD.K12.WI.US</a> ><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Good Morning,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I have a student working on a project in Alice 3 and they were wondering<br class="">if it is possible to create your own template or add your own props into<br class="">the project? The items that they are needing for their project are not<br class="">available in Alice 3.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your help and have a great day.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Marleana Rank<br class=""><br class="">3-12 Business Educator<br class="">School District of Greenwood<br class="">FBLA and Yearbook Adviser<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">alice-teachers mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br class="">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">alice-teachers mailing list<br class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu<br class="">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">alice-teachers mailing list<br class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu<br class="">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">alice-teachers mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br class="">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>