Dr. Jim, you said.....
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Will start with a simple answer - for downloading from the web, Alice seems to do a good job of reading from the web gallery. What I do is just start a new world, access the web gallery (with dial-up this can be slow) and (1) add a copy of the object you want to the world and (2) save it to local disk. This will give you a local .a2c file for the object - then just move it (don’t modify it or unzip it) to the Gallery folder in the Required section of the Alice folder and, when you run Alice, it should then be listed in the Gallery like any other object.
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Where you say "This will give you a local .a2c file for the object -" Okay,
I added a copy of the object from the web gallery that I wanted in my world and I saved the world to my local disk. Now,....
where physically, is this local .a2c file that has the new image of the character or characters that I wanted to add?
Dr. Jim, you also said...
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If you want to just import the.a2c file into Alice from where you stored it, you again don't need to do anything special. Alice will take care of decompressing the file and will then use the data. Where I occasionally have trouble is in downloading the file directly and not going through Alice for that step
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Okay, I have downloaded several of the new objects on a faster machine because I have dial-up at home (very slow), so I have all these * zip files * on a CD.
How do I let Alice know where they are? How do I give Alice access to them? Where do I physically put these files that I have on my Cd? I've tried putting them directly into C:\alice\required\gallery\{specific topic folder} and that didn't work. I've tried opening Alice hoping that ALICE could find them on the CD but Alice didn't like that either. So, I'm still looking for a way to do this...