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

Tue Feb 10 11:18:27 EST 2015

Leonel,
These are really interesting suggestions, and I will pass them along to the development team…

Thank you,
Don Slater

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

Email: don at alice.org

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--- Henry David Thoreau

The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton

> On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Leonel Morales <litomd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Don,
> 
> That's good news!
> 
> Besides, is it possible to have a simple classes like the geometric
> objects available, that can be easily created for specific purposes?
> 
> What I am thinking is this: suppose you need a method in a class that
> works differently in another class, a sort of polymorphism. I think
> that's not possible right now but from simple classes, one for each
> variation of the method, you can have a single name for a method in
> each class that then calls the specific methods in the other classes.
> 
> It would be like if object markers could be treated like classes that
> can have methods, functions and properties but in fact are never shown
> in the scene.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Leonel
> 
> 2015-02-10 9:32 GMT-06:00, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>:
>> 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
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:53 PM, Aaron Glendinning <aglendinning at sd73.bc.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is it ever going to be possible? From the research I've done, they said
>>> they were working on importing 3 years ago?
>>> 
>>> Aaron Glendinning
>>> Animation / Drafting / Programming
>>> Valleyview Secondary School
>>> 
>>> ----- 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It is not possible to import 3D objects into Alice at this time, but it is
>>> possible to import 2D images as billboards…
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am not quite sure what you mean by templates? Starter worlds?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry,
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Don Slater
>>> Alice Team
>>> Carnegie Mellon University
>>> 5000 Forbes Avenue
>>> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Email: don at alice.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:59 AM, MARLEANA RANK < MARANK at GREENWOOD.K12.WI.US >
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Good Morning,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your help and have a great day.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Marleana Rank
>>> 
>>> 3-12 Business Educator
>>> School District of Greenwood
>>> FBLA and Yearbook Adviser
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