Alice 3 Cookbook
Publisher: Pa.ckt Publi,shing | 2011 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 1849514925 | EPUB + PDF + code | 24 MB + 11 MB + 5 MB

Alice 3 Cookbook focuses on performing common tasks required in classrooms with Alice 3. The recipes target teachers who would like to take advantage of this exciting 3D environment in their classrooms and/or labs.

Alice 3 uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating programming experience. Each recipe provides step-by-step instructions that allow you to learn the most important Alice features by example. You will learn about everything from the addition of the initial actors, up to the advanced procedures to react to the keyboard and mouse input.

You will work with the different elements that compose a scene and learn how to change the values for properties and run simple methods. Discover how to create simple animations that will allow you to recognize the most important elements of the user interface and explore the models provided by Alice to use them in games.

A cookbook for teachers filled with practical recipes for showing students how to build scenes with animations and videos, using Alice 3

What you will learn from this book :

Browse galleries with 3D models to add them as actors to a scene
Work with keyboard and mouse input to create interactive stories
Set scenes with live backgrounds, moving actors, and background music
Add animals, people, and objects, and define simple and complex behaviors
Work with parts of characters and people to create realistic animations
Use local variables in procedures and functions to solve complex algorithms
Use counters and loops and evaluate expressions to run conditional code
Combine many sub-expressions with logical operators and relational operators
Customize and animate a person’s body and make the person interact with the environment
Control multiple cameras to create realistic experiences

Download Links