Creating a 3D Interactive Story.pptVIP

Creating a 3D Interactive Story Prof. Susan Rodger Duke University Feb. 24, 2007 Now Create an Alice World Start Alice Select “File”, “New World” Click on Snow picture Click on “Open” Find SnowPeople objects Click on “add objects” Scroll over to “people” folder and click on it Scroll over to Snowman and snowWoman Add Snowman to World Click on snowman and you will see: Click on “Add instance” Snowman appears in world Add SnowWoman to world and adjust Click on SnowWoman and add her to the world Click on arrow key Click and hold on snowman to move him left and back Click and hold on snowWoman and move her to the right Scene should look like Save World Save world Type in a name such as: snowPeople and then “save” Alice will remind you to save your work every 15 minutes Now Ready to program! Click on done Should now see myFirstMethod Write code to move the snowman This is the object tree, a list of all your objects in the world Now click on the word “snowman” to highlight it You should see methods below it (things the snowman can do) such as move, turn, roll, … Scroll down til you see “turn to face” Write code to move the snowman (2) Click left mouse button on “snowman turn to face” AND HOLD IT DOWN, then Drag it over and release the mouse button Click on “snowWoman” “the entire snowWoman” Write code to move the snowman (3) Code appears Click on Play Have the snowman talk Drag over “Snowman Say” Select “other” and type a greeting such as “Hello there! Code is now: Play again Now SnowWoman will act Click on snowWoman to see her methods Drag over code and drop below other code Play! Now write a NEW snowman method Click on snowman Should see snowman’s methods Click on “create new method” and enter name “getAttention” Empty method is created, ready for you to enter code Write GetAttention Method Add the following code to this method Note you now have two methods: Click on myFirstMethod to get back to it Add getAttention method to program –