<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="">Carrie,<div class="">Unfortunately, it is not possible in Alice 3 to change any one sub-part of an object, due to the construction of models in Alice 3. In Alice 2, the sub-parts of an object were independent objects, linked together using the vehicle property to create the whole object.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Alice 3, the models are all one object, with a skeleton of joints to manipulate different parts of the one object. This design choice was made to create objects that would have more realistic animations, (the skin of an object would react more naturally to the movement of the object with this design), but at the cost of being able to manipulate the properties of the “sub-parts”, such as set the opacity.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let us know if you have any other questions…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Alice Project<br class="">Carnegie Mellon University<br class="">Entertainment Technology Center<br class="">700 Technology Drive<br class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15219<br class=""><br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:dslater@cmu.edu" class="">dslater@cmu.edu</a><br class=""><br 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<br class=""><br class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br class=""><br class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 23, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Henrickson, Carrie <<a href="mailto:Carrie.Henrickson@k12.sd.us" class="">Carrie.Henrickson@k12.sd.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hello all,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I am fairly new to alice programming. Can someone please help me with making a head invisible in alice3? I can only seem to make the entire body invisible using the opacity in the properties.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);" class="">Respectfully,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);" class="">Carrie Henrickson<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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