alice-teacher box minimum dimensions in Alice 3

[Michael L Owen]

It must be a bug. The first time I tried to create a box with those dimensions it crashed the program, and I couldn't drag it around. The second time I dragged in a box, then changed the dimensions to your specs, saved the program, reloaded and it was back to 1x1x1.

Out of curiosity I tried some of the other shapes. Some worked, some didn't.

The billboard shape would allow me to unlock, but continued to resize both dimensions if I tried to change only one.

The cylinder also appeared to unlock the dimensions, but would not allow resizing individual dimensions.

The TextModel couldn't be unlocked.


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Subject: alice-teacher box minimum dimensions in Alice 3

Hi,

A student of mine was using a box object as a shelf. He resized it to (0.05, 1, 0.5), but when he runs the animation it always resets the box to 1 x 1 x 1. If he saves the program and reopens it, it has changed the dimension back to 1 x 1 x 1. Is this a bug or does a box have minimum dimensions?

Thanks,
-Eddie Sharick

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