Alice+Tut1+hello+world


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Hello World!

First, I would like you to watch this slideshare slideshow to become familiar with the look and feel of the program

[|The Alice Interface]

Today, we are going to place an object into our virtual world that will say "Hello!" to you!

open Alice from our applications folder, and it will look like this



1. Click cancel on the welcome box

2. Every object in Alice has a number of methods that allow the object to perform some kind of action.

3. By default each world has a camera, light and ground object. If you click on any of the objects in the upper left corner you will see the different methods that are available for that object. For example, if we click on the camera object we see the following methods:



4. If we wanted to we could make the camera speak to us by selecting the camera “say” method in the camera's details window and drag it the world.my first method area as I have done in the above picture.

5. to see what happens once you have asked the camera to say hello, press the play button in the top left of the screen. A new window will open up and play the video.

6. Instead of the camera saying hello, let's add an object to say it instead!

7. To add an object, press 'Add Object, found just below the world window



8. Select an animal of your choice from the animal gallery, and you can either click "add instance" from the little window that pops up, or drag it into your world. I decided to choose the husky because I think they are awesome animals!

9. When you are done with the gallery, press DONE, you can see it on the lower mid right side of the above picture.

10. your animal object should now be on the list of objects in your world, with the camera, lights, and ground. 11. Click on the husky to see the methods available, in the "Husky's details" window.

12. To make your object say hello, just select the “say” method, and drag and drop it right below the ground "say" method. When prompted, click other, and make the string text say “**Hello Camera**!”

13. Press play in the top left corner of your screen to watch your crazy object talk to the camera!