Alice 2 Gallery
This original gallery of Alice 2 models was created through the generous donation of Carnegie Mellon Building Virtual World students.
As part of the NSF DRL-1031351 grant, we are developing new 3D models requested by teachers attending our workshops. Besides putting these new models into the current release of Alice 2, they can be found in the New Models section of this page. Also, the current version of Alice 2 allows you to update the system and gallery, adding subsequent new models to your current Alice library.
Some examples of the new models created under this grant include a calculator, a balance, a bar chart, a book that opens, a deck of cards, DNA, a dog, an egg carton, several planets, and a plant in several stages of growth.
The models in the Hawaii gallery were created for a project at the University of Hawaii, partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
These models will work only in Alice 2, and cannot be imported into Alice 3.
We appreciate the countless hours of dedication and hard work that was put into these models.
All models in the Alice gallery are in the public domain as long as they are used with the accreditation.
Creating your own models
The urls below contain tutorials on using 3D Studio Max, and how to get models built in 3D Studio Max into Alice 2. We cannot stress strongly enough that experience as a graphics artist is needed to successfully build 3D models. Also, the critical part of building a 3D model for Alice is that the internal pivots must be connected in a hierarchical fashion -- otherwise, Alice has trouble loading the model and making the subparts move/rotate.
- http://www.alice.org/bvw03/TAweb/modeling/09-01-03BVWMax.html
- How to import 3D models into Alice
- Here is a detailed step by step tutorial by Rebecca Scully on using Maya and 3DS Max to build an Alice character.
- Travis East also built a tutorial on building models for Alice using 3DS Max.
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