alice-teacher Duplicating and instantiating objects

[Heidi Kunselman]

Have not thought this through and may be to complicated, but could you use
the same two objects, one with a vehicle on gun that just go opaque and
reappears with your gun when needed and one that moves to target and comes
back opaque to your gun when done shooting? Just a crazy thought.

Thanks,

Heidi Kunselman
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On 2/3/17, 9:29 AM, "alice-teachers on behalf of Donald Slater via
alice-teachers" 
<alice-teachers-bounces+hkunselman=d92.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu on behalf
of alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

>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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