alice-teacher Alice 3 - Creating your own template or props

[Don Slater]

Yes. We do intend to support importing user created models. A fist step to that implementation has been adding the feature that allows the user to export modified Alice classes and import them into other projects. (So that a Walking Mad Hatter built in one project can now be exported, and then added to other projects.)

The issue is that, unlike Alice 2, where object classes are essentially part of a flat hierarchy, in order to support true object oriented programming, the Alice Gallery is hierarchical, and when people create their own objects, they actually have to think in terms of creating a class, and how that class will fit within the overall inheritance hierarchy. Which means we have to specify in much more detail the underlying skeleton of the class, so that imported objects have the same skeleton, or the animations will not work.

And we have not yet finalized the skeletons for some of the objects. For example, we have just recently started to implement the tails of animals as arrays, to create more realistic, and at the same time, simpler to implement animations.

Thank you for your patience.

Don Slater
Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Email: don at alice.org

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> On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:53 PM, Aaron Glendinning <aglendinning at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
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> Is it ever going to be possible? From the research I've done, they said they were working on importing 3 years ago?
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>  Aaron Glendinning
>  Animation / Drafting / Programming
>  Valleyview Secondary School
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Slater" <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: "Alice Teachers" <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 3:33:27 PM
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3 - Creating your own template or props
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> It is not possible to import 3D objects into Alice at this time, but it is possible to import 2D images as billboards… 
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> I am not quite sure what you mean by templates? Starter worlds? 
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> Don Slater 
> Alice Team 
> Carnegie Mellon University 
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> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
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> 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. 
> --- Henry David Thoreau 
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> On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:59 AM, MARLEANA RANK < MARANK at GREENWOOD.K12.WI.US > wrote: 
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> Good Morning, 
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> I have a student working on a project in Alice 3 and they were wondering if it is possible to create your own template or add your own props into the project? The items that they are needing for their project are not available in Alice 3. 
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> Thank you for your help and have a great day. 
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> Marleana Rank 
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> 3-12 Business Educator 
> School District of Greenwood 
> FBLA and Yearbook Adviser 
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