Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Animal Race

So today I went to the computer and opened ALICE and continued to work on my skateboard project. Now the plan was simply to have a skater move up and down a ramp in a way directed by me. The problem was that creating those movements and making them look natural on this program is tedious and difficult. So that idea was scrapped. But I turned to a new idea. I started putting trees into the world and then I just start putting animals into it as I browsed through the objects. Then I noticed that there was an object that was a turtle but he had a sweat band on and sneakers (which I thought was hilarious.) So I thought maybe the animals can have a race. Then the user can use their mouse to guide themselves through the course. And instead of having them just run through trees or something, I decided to make many different environments that are all connected. And there was this monkey on there that I thought was so cute. So he had to be the host. He already came with methods that lets him screech and jump and things like that. Some objects have methods created by other users that you can use in your world.



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