Hypercompendia

Got a character walking and talking–although the walking is really only a gliding movement and the talk is a cartoon bubble.  I’m sure there’s a way of recording sound and inserting it in place so that we can have some munchkin audio conversation going here.

There are the tutorials, and one of the most useful elements of them and the fact that you can download any of the user videos is that it allows viewing the script to see how things have been accomplished.  It would have been helpful to have a help index of at least some of the simpler moves, such as my question about sound or walking for example.  Because I’m enjoying this so far and realize that while it is actually quite a powerful program, it can be manipulated easily enough to make some simple yet interesting and nice-looking videos, I have ordered one of the texts, Learning to Program with Alice, from Amazon, used.  There will be a new version of Alice coming out and along with it, updated text, I’m sure.  On the forum it was mentioned that there had been a downloadable version of this original text, but I haven’t found it and buying a used version seemed reasonable since I’m anxious to have the info quickly and easily available.

So now I’m going to get Socrates to lift his arm and greet the Mad Scientist, welcoming him into the garden environment.  I need a bench, and I imported a table thinking I may be able to size it about right for use as such.

This isn’t going to be a week-long project; it’ll likely take a while to first produce a simple short clip, and then work to tweak it out to a bit more elaborate (decent-looking) piece, and then move on to a continual learning process and create new projects.