alice-teacher Billboard Alice 2.4
Susan Rodger
rodger at cs.duke.edu
Fri Sep 11 10:42:38 EDT 2015
The billboards might be really large files. Try using another tool to
reduce their size and then try again. That seems to happen with really
large files.
Another trick with images:
To lighten a billboard picture, go to seldom used properties for the
billboard, change emissive color to light gray. The picture should be
lighter.
Susan
At Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:23:55 +0000,
Carolyn Thomas wrote:
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> We are having problems with billboards in the princess and dragon scenes
> created by Duke - http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/tutorials.php. Students
> get the "black screen" and cannot proceed.
>
> Also - if students download Alice 2.4 onto flash drive and extract all should
> they be able to take the drive with them and work on any computer?
>
> -Carolyn
>
> Carolyn Thomas, NBCT
> 7th/8th Grade Science Teacher
> Wildwood Middle School
> 1209 Shenandoah Junction Road
> Shenandoah Junction, WV 25442
> 304-728-4518
> Classroom Website: http://boe.jeff.k12.wv.us/thomas
>
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> From: alice-teachers-bounces+c.r.thomas=k12.wv.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> <alice-teachers-bounces+c.r.thomas=k12.wv.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on behalf
> of Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:03 AM
> To: Alice Teachers
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3 Gallery
>
> Something to be aware of when working with billboards in Alice 3. When
> creating the billboard, you are given options to “paint” both the front and
> back side of the billboard. (See attached screen shot) Be sure to choose a
> paint (even if it is a side you do not anticipate seeing in your animation)
> for the back, or the billboard may not render correctly.
>
> All the best,
>
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Team
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Entertainment Technology Center
> 700 Technology Drive
> Pittsburgh, PA 15219
>
> Email: dslater at cmu.edu
>
> 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
>
> [cid]
>
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Leonel Morales <litomd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another possibility would be using six billboards each with a front
> paint of the one of the six faces of a dice, six images of the
> different sides of a dice would be needed.
>
> Then the tricky part: assemble them as a dice setting one of them as
> the vehicle for the rest.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leonel
>
> 2015-09-08 3:02 GMT-06:00, Wanda Dann <wpdann at andrew.cmu.edu>:
>
> Don is absolutely right... no dice in the gallery. After reading this
> thread, however, I began
> to think about the possibility of making your own die using a couple
> of
> the shapes in the Gallery.
>
> I did this once in Alice 2, but then we built a die for that gallery
> and
> I threw my "custom made"
> in the trash.
>
> Here is the idea:
> 1. Create a box object but change its size to a small cube.
> 2. Position small discs (change size and make a black color) to be the
> dots on each side.
> Make the vehicle of each disc be the cube, so when the die is
> tossed (combination of turn and roll) the discs stick to the
> cube.
> 3. Write procedures to toss the die and determine which side is up.
>
> This would take some time and patience... but I think it would work.
> Maybe one of your students would like this as
> a project?
>
> If you get it to work, perhaps you would be willing to save it out as
> a
> custom class and share it with
> teachers on this list?
>
> Best wishes,
> Wanda
>
> On 9/7/2015 4:53 PM, Don Slater wrote:
>
> Steve,
> The current gallery does not currently have any classes you might
> use
> in a dice game. They are in the list, but have yet to be
> implemented.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Team
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Entertainment Technology Center
> 700 Technology Drive
> Pittsburgh, PA 15219
>
> Email: dslater at cmu.edu <mailto:dslater at cmu.edu>
>
> 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 Sep 7, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Steven Jang <
> sjang at pacificacademy.org
> <mailto:sjang at pacificacademy.org>> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Does the Alice 3 Gallery have classes I could use for a dice
> game?
>
> Steve, Pacific Academy
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