alice-teacher Alice v3.1.37.0.0 (Mac OS X)

[nancy hoorn]

I'm not sure about some of this, but #5 could be solved with a screen
recorder (jing, screenflow, etc.). I think there is another way, but
haven't played with it yet. :)

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Gamez, Enrique A (172B) <
enrique.a.gamez at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>  In preparation for possible student questions, I have a few of my own
> for the community.  First, I have to say that I love all the possibilities
> presented by having fully articulated models!
>
>
>
>  1) Can body parts be separately scaled?
>
>
>  2) Can we load our own background image to put behind our characters
> (replacing the typical grass, sea_floor, moon, etc.)?
>
>
>  3) Can we load an animation or sequence of stills into the background of
> our characters?  This would simplify posing characters to match movements
> in the background.
>
>
>  4) Can we programmatically change the axis center around which a
> particular joint moves?  eg.  to animate a box falling down stairs.
>
>
>  5) Is it possible to generate a movie out of an animation such that the
> Alice programming environment isn't required to play it?  (I.e. in a .MOV,
> .WMV, or .MP4 or other format?)
>
>
>  6) Has anyone developed a "walk cycle" procedure that you would be
> willing to share?
>
>
>  7) Does Alice support any text to speech engine?
>
>
>  8) Is it possible to allow Alice characters and props to be placed over
> an alpha (i.e. transparent background) to facilitate compositing later in
> post production?  This would facilitate getting our Alice animations to
> appear as it they are in the real world and quite possibly interacting with
> live actors.
>
>  9) Typo:  menu still says "Beta".
>
>
>
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Nancy J Hoorn
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