alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 78, Issue 16

[Nisanti Wilmot]

Is it possible to make a character blink in Alice? One of my students tried
to get each of the girl's eyelids and tried to use move up and down as well
as the roll procedures inside a do together block but it wasn't working.

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> Hello all,
> I am fairly new to alice programming. Can someone please help me with
> making a head invisible in alice3?  I can only seem to make the entire body
> invisible using the opacity in the properties.
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> Respectfully,
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> Carrie Henrickson
> Technology Coordinator
> Computer Educator
> Ethan School District
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> From: Donald Slater <djslater107 at mac.com>
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> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Invisible head
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> Carrie,
> Unfortunately, it is not possible in Alice 3 to change any one sub-part of
> an object, due to the construction of models in Alice 3. In Alice 2, the
> sub-parts of an object were independent objects, linked together using the
> vehicle property to create the whole object.
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> In Alice 3, the models are all one object, with a skeleton of joints to
> manipulate different parts of the one object. This design choice was made
> to create objects that would have more realistic animations, (the skin of
> an object would react more naturally to the movement of the object with
> this design), but at the cost of being able to manipulate the properties of
> the ?sub-parts?, such as set the opacity.
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> Please let us know if you have any other questions?
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> All the best,
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> Don Slater
>
> Alice Project
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Entertainment Technology Center
> 700 Technology Drive
> Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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> Email: dslater at cmu.edu
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> 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
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> The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton
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> > On Mar 23, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Henrickson, Carrie <
> Carrie.Henrickson at k12.sd.us> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I am fairly new to alice programming. Can someone please help me with
> making a head invisible in alice3?  I can only seem to make the entire body
> invisible using the opacity in the properties.
> >
> > Respectfully,
> >
> > Carrie Henrickson
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Computer Educator
> > Ethan School District
> > (605) 227-4211
> > carrie.henrickson at k12.sd.us <mailto:carrie.henrickson at k12.sd.us>
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Nisanti Wilmot
Computer Science Faculty - Oakwood School
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