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Wonderland in Squeak

Learn how to use the Alice-based 3-D world in Squeak with Wonderland, an implementation of Alice for Squeak. Explore various features such as camera morph, working with objects, animations, controlling time, and more.

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Wonderland in Squeak

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  1. Wonderland in Squeak How to use the wonderful, Alice-based 3-D world in Squeak — Mark Guzdial

  2. What’s Wonderland? • An implementation of Alice (http://www.alice.org) for Squeak • Alice is a project of Randy Pausch • Randy’s PhD student, Jeff Pierce, did Wonderland as an intern at Disney • At CMU, Alice is used to teach film classes, to develop animations with interdisciplinary groups, etc.

  3. Wonderland Wonderland Camera Morph Some generic work space Wonderland Editor

  4. Playing with Balloon 3-D

  5. Starting With Wonderland • Wonderland new • (In Squeak 3.1/3.2, from FileList, open a model .mdl file) • Opens a WonderlandCameraMorph and Wonderland Editor • Within editor: • w is the current Wonderland • camera is the current camera • cameraWindow is the camera’s window

  6. Filling a Wonderland • Wonderlands understand 3D Design Studio and VRML • w makeActorFromVRML: ‘blah.vrml’ • w makeActorFrom3DS: ‘blah.3ds’ • But quality tends to be low. Best: • w makeActorFrom: ‘blah.mdl’

  7. Dealing with Wonderland Objects • Grab mdl files from: ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/alice/Objects.zip • When you load the object, you have access to the overall objects and its hierarchy • Messages are defined for you to make it easy to walk the hierarchy • Basic commands: move:, turn:, moveTo:

  8. All Transitions Animate • When you command something to happen in Wonderland, it does over time (unless you say otherwise). • bunny head setColor: green • bunny turn: right • bunny turn: right turns: 2 • bunny turn: right turns: 1/2 duration: rightNow • bunny head turn: right

  9. Working with the Camera • camera move: back distance: 3 • camera turn: left • cameraWindow showCameraControls

  10. Getting rid of things • Every Wonderland Actor understands destroy • They also understand hide and show • But don’t worry about it—infinite undo in the WonderlandEditor

  11. Animation Objects • Every action returns an Animation object. That’s why infinite undo is possible, and how actions can be easily chained • fd := snowman move: forward. • rt := snowman turn: right. • w doTogether: {fd. rt}. • “w doInOrder: {fd. rt}.

  12. Constructing New Objects • Can use Pooh (demo) • Can construct from pieces • makeActor • makeActorNamed: • makePlaneNamed: • bunny head becomeFirstClass “Now changes don’t propagate from parent” • bunny head becomeChildOf: ground • bunny move: backward • bunny color: (Color red)

  13. More basic commands • bunny resize: 2 • bunny roll: right. bunny standUp. • moveTo: and turnTo: take a triplet {Left. Up. Forward} in the parent’s reference frame • bunny moveTo: {0. 2. 0}. • bunny turn: left. • bunny moveTo: camera. • bunny alignWith: camera • camera pointAt: bunny.

  14. Manipulating the Light • light place: onTopOf object: bunny. • light color: (Color red). “or gray or white” • “Can also set the background, e.g. ground color: (Color gray)”

  15. Controlling time • bunny move: forward distance: 5 speed: 1 • bunny head pointAt: camera duration: eachFrame. “bunny turn: right” • bunny head doEachFrame: [ bunny head pointAt: (camera transformScreenPointToScenePoint: (Sensor mousePoint) using: bunny) duration: rightNow ].

  16. Using Alarms • myAlarm := Alarm do: [bunny turn: left turns: 1] in: 5 inScheduler: scheduler • scheduler getTime

  17. Additional Cameras • (Beware of speed!) • w makeCamera. • camera1 moveTo: {0. 2. 0}

  18. Responding to Events • bunny respondWith: [:event | bunny head turn: right ] to: rightMouseClick. “bunny stop” • Also understands leftMouseDown, leftMouseUp, (and right equivalents) and keyPress • WonderlandEvent is the input type

  19. Blending 2-D and 3-D • camera turnBackgroundOff. • ground hide. • cameraWindow move: right distance: 50. • bunny move: right distance: 5

  20. Textures • Set textures, including active ones: • bunny head setTextureFromUser • An ActiveTexture (try BouncingAtomsMorph): • camera getMorph enableDragNDrop. • bunny body hasActiveTexture. "printIt to Check" • bunny body setProperty: #activeTexture toValue: true. "enable it" • bunny body setTexturePointer: (RectangleMorph new openInWorld).

  21. Getting rid of the editor • In workspace: • w := Wonderland new. • w getEditor hide. • (w getNameSpace at: ‘shark’) torso tail turn: #right

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