alice-teacher Duplicating and instantiating objects

[Donald Slater]

I assume that that you are asking about Alice 3, as Alice 2 has the clone button in the mouse control tool bar in the upper right corner of the Scene Editor.

In Alice 3, you can duplicate objects by 

	Windows OS: ALT key + mouse drag on the object.
	MacOS: CONTROL key = mouse drag on the object.

It is not possible to create more objects in Alice while the program is running. However, in your example, when a projectile disappears from the screen, you can reposition it to a starting point. Let me know if you would like more details.

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project
Carnegie Mellon University
Entertainment Technology Center
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Email: dslater at cmu.edu

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> On Feb 3, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Sharick, Edward via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to duplicate an object that is already in the scene. I have a student who is designing a maze and wants to duplicate wall objects. He has to drag each individual piece from the bottom. Is there a way to copy an already instantiated object?
> 
> Likewise, is there a way to create an object while the animation is running. For example, if I were designing a space shooter game and wanted to create the projectiles as the user pushes the fire button and then destroy them as they leave the camera view, is there a way to do this.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Eddie
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