From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Dec 21 19:10:26 2018 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:10:26 -0800 Subject: alice-teacher Alice Model Import Beta is Live! Message-ID: Dear Alice Community, I want to wish you all the best in closing out 2018 and ringing in the new year. We are happy to be closing out our year by sharing with you the beta release of our new model import feature. Many of you may be happily looking forward to a break from the computer screen but in case anyone wanted to tinker around with it here you go: https://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-beta/ We are excited to finally share this with the community but please be aware this is still the very first beta release. We do hope that you will explore this new feature and help us test and improve. For this release we have worked internally to test and document using Blender or Maya to model and export Collada models for bringing in to Alice. We do hope to expand this to other modeling platforms as we move forward and welcome any feedback from users that try other modeling avenues. Please be sure to read through the accompanying documentation as it is important. Along with bug fixing and extending the functionality we will be prioritizing documentation in support of importing different classes including releasing template model files for each class when we get back to work on this in the new year. We look forward to hearing from you all and seeing what kind of models the Alice community comes up. We will be taking a much needed hiatus till the new year but will jump on any questions or issues as soon as we are back. Sincerely, Eric