www.alice.org
Story telling Alice was created by Caitlin Kellcher which was part her doctoral work in computer science.
To enable and encourage users to create animated stories, story telling Alice includes;
1) Animation that are high level which enables the user to program social interactions between characters.
2) The idea of a story based tutorial that introduces users to programming through building a story.
3) Alice has a gallery of 3D characters and scenery with custom animations which can be used and arranged to tell a story.
In Alice,to create or make a character perform an action we use something called a parameter. To make your character to do new things, all that is needed is create a new method for them. In other to create a new method,you select the name of the character you want to perform the given task in the object tree and then click on its create new method button. You give your animation a new name preferably what you would want the character to do so that you don't get confused and press the ok button. Alice on its own would then open a new method editor for the given name of the method. In this new editor, you can now teach or make a character perform a given task or set of tasks. The concept of Algorithmic thinking is made practical as in when a character is to perform a given task it has to follow an algorithm. Its from the algorithm that the designer would be able to know what comes first. In Alice there are different commands that can be used to cause a change on the animation.
Each figure has parts and in the part when you open them you would find the various methods that each of them you would find the various methods that each of them can do and this can be used in making the figure do that which is desired. The loop is use to make the character perform an action several times as required.
It becomes necessary that when a scene is laid out in Alice you'll probably want to animate it. As in squeak,every character and object in the scene you are creating has a tile in the object tree. All you do if you want to know what method a character can do is, click on the tile of the character in the object tree. Then you'll see a list of the various meths that that character in question knows how to do and if a change or modification is desired it can then be done here. To add an animation to a character all you need do is drag and drop the animation tiles into the method editor. When you have done all this, the next thing is to click the play button to see what your Alice program looks like.
The process of adding objects to your Alice world is easy. All you need do is click on the add object button. Once tou are in the Alice gallery,to add characters and screnery to your Alice world is simply by dragging cards into your scene. To get back to the main gallery, click on the local gallery.
Objects can be moved by simply clicking on them and moving them to desired position. To resize, turning the object, copying can all be possible by using the controls on the right. Making a mouse move an object, you select the control from the right button where you can select the required task. When telling a story, multiple screnes would make it more intresting. In creating a new scene, click on the create new scene button. After this has been done you can then give the new scene a new name, choose what kind of ground you want then click ok.
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