3D Games
Flight Simulator
I made a flight simulator in Alice 2.2. You control a plane and your camera follows. You can steer left, right, up, and down, but you cannot slow down or speed up to land or take off.
These are the events in the program that tell the biplane what to do when a button is pressed. I had to write sub-programs in order to have the keys actually work
Realistic Walking
Our challenge was to make a person look like they are walking but not have it as choppy as in the examples. This is screen shot of what it looked like when it was actually walking. I had to make every part of the body move in different directions and at different times so it was really time consuming. The whole human sprite was called a class because it was just all of the parts of the body put into one structure.
Google Sketchup
I made a modern looking house in Google Sketchup. Google Sketchup is a 3D modelling program that lets you make any structure you want. It starts you with 3 axis, x, y, and z, and a person standing next to them. This is the house that I made, I made it by starting with a the ground and then expanding different parts of it until I got the different sections or the house. The next step was to add windows and a window sill. I just made indents on the wall and made a frame on the inside of them. I just used the decorating tool and the textures it provided to make those specific sections translucent like windows.
Washington Monument
I also made the Washington Monument in the little time that I had left. I made the ground and added an indent for the water part. I then had to make the actual monument. I started with a square and the made a really tall 3D rectangle, I then made all of the corners on the top of the rectangle connect at one point in the middle. This allowed me to drag that one point up and make a pyramid at the top.
Visual Python
I made a program in Visual Python that made a ball bounce off of every wall on the inside of a box. I made the front wall transparent so you could see into the box, and the ball will react the same if it hits the transparent wall as if it is hitting any other wall.
Orbiting the sun
I also made a program in Visual Python that makes a sphere, earth, orbit around another sphere, the sun, in an actual ellipse.
I made a graph to go along with it. The graph graphs the distance between the sun and the earth throughout the orbit.