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Pictures and Alice

Barb Ericson

Georgia Institute of Technology

September 2006

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Learning Goals

• Understand at a conceptual and practical level– How to save pictures from Alice scenes– How to create billboards in Alice from pictures– How to use pictures for texture maps– How to put pictures in a picture frame

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Saving Pictures from Alice

• First click the Play button • Click the Pause button to

stop the action• Click on the Take Picture

button– This saves a picture on the

desktop as capturexx.jpeg– Numbering starts at 00 and

increments for each picture you take 01, 02, 03, …

– You can move the picture to another directory

• And rename it

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Create a Billboard in Alice

• You can add a picture to Alice as a billboard

• Click on File and then on Make Billboard– Locate the picture to add

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Position a Billboard

• Click on the Add Objects button to see the mouse controls

• Click on the billboard reference in the object tree

• Use the mouse controls to position the billboard

• Click on Done when you are done

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Use a Picture as a Texture Map

• Click on ground in the object tree window

• Click the properties tab in the details window

• Scroll down to the Texture Maps

• Click on the + next to Texture Maps

• Click on the import texture map button

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Picking the Picture for a Texture Map

• Select the picture to import– And click the Import button

• Set the ground texture map to the new texture map picture– In the properties

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Example of Changing the Ground

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Putting a Picture in a Frame

• Put a room in a world• Add a PictureFrame object

– Use the mouse controls to position it on the room wall

• Click on the reference to the PictureFrame object in the object tree– Click on the + and select

matte

• Click on the properties tab• Click the Texture Maps +• Click the import texture maps

button• Select the picture to use

– It shows up upside down

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Summary

• You can save pictures from Alice– Use the pause button to stop the movie or game– It will save to the desktop

• You can create billboards from pictures– Using File and Make Billboard

• You can use pictures to make texture maps – In the properties tab of the details window

• Open Texture Maps

• You can put a picture in a picture frame in Alice– By changing the texture map of the matte