how do i...

first off i am fairly new to Alice but i have experience making some things.

i have a few questions
1.how do i make an object circle another object
2. how would i make it so a vehicle couldn't travel through an object
3. how can i link multiple alice worlds or how could i make multiple levels in one world

please if you stated what question you were answering it would help

Originally Posted by whidragon

first off i am fairly new to Alice but i have experience making some things.

i have a few questions
1.how do i make an object circle another object
2. how would i make it so a vehicle couldn't travel through an object
3. how can i link multiple alice worlds or how could i make multiple levels in one world

please if you stated what question you were answering it would help

See http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm for the answer to the first question.


Dick Baldwin
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Originally Posted by DickBaldwin

See http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm for the answer to the first question.


Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free Scratch tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocHomeSchool.htm
Free Java/C#, etc. tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

Ok i have question one answered now any ideas on the others?

Dick, et.al. -

I've been all over your online tutorial and can't find the "answer" you speak of. Could you please provide us a link to the page its on?

I'm a little puzzled as to why some people have been so cryptic about providing help for this type of question. Whether its part of a textbook lesson or not, I thought the purpose of this forum was to help users learn Alice!?! That makes us all of us students of sorts. In essence, we're all students, and we're all professors!

People aren't asking for someone else to write their program for them. All they want is a clue or a tip about where to find the answer; what technique is used to solve such a problem or how to think about the solution for the most effective result. That's still not the same as solving the exercise for them. Maybe someone could provide a clue about which method or combination of methods one would use to create a possible solution for this problem. Some assistance would be more than appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help,
-Robert

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Not sure about the cryptic help you've seen. I know that when people ask about help with a specific world, I ask them to try it themselves first, but if people ask me a specific question, I usually answer it.

Anyway, first question: use the turn method, but click the More...V option at the end of it and change asSeenBy to the object you want it to circle.

Second one: That's a question of collision detection, it's a very difficult thing to simulate in Alice. There's a built-in system you can use, but only if you let the arrow keys move the camera.

Third: No way, really. Just use different camera positions with different environmental objects to give the illision of multiple settings or levels in your one world.

That's more to the point and specific than I've seen in some of these posts. (Too bad its about 15 months too late for Whidragon who originally posted this question.)

Hope you're having a wonderful Valentine's Day weekend!

Ciao,
-Robert

hmm, now this is an interesting thread from before my time :P I know another program in which they give a way to link different scenes. Would it be possible to make javascript codes work in alice? If so, it might be possible to make that third thing happen...

Javascript codes can't be used in Alice, nor is linking worlds possible (although why would you, since it would be easier to use a different location within the same world )

Also a note that 2008 was quite a different year since this was about Alice 2.0 which had a lot less capabilities and a lot more bugs than our current Alice 2.2, as well as we had a lot less knowledge about programming in Alice so help is going to be a lot different back then than it is today. The help may seem cryptic right now, but back then it was quite a lot.

well, I think that as there is a max amount of object you can have within one scene before it's too much for alice to handle, it might be handy to have the linking system, as it would allow you to get to that max with every level, rather then the entire game, which might make it possible to do more. But I suppose this is strictly hypothetical for now..