Starlogo camera controls and enhancements

[摘要] The purpose of this research and development project was to further develop Starlogo, a block based programming environment to allow students to create 3D games and simulations to help them learn programming. I improved the Sarlogo ;;camera;;, a representation of the view within a 3D world. Starlogo has a 1 person perspective camera called ;;Agent Eye;;, a 3rd person perspective camera called ;;Agent View;;, and a customizable camera called ;;Aerial;;. Previously, the view could get obscured by the terrain and was disorienting at times making games difficult to play. The cameras now automatically move around obscuring terrain, have a larger field of vision, and move smoothly making games easier to control and fun to play. Users can also manually control the cameras and have a full range of vision within Starlogo worlds. These recent camera developments will be used in the next release of Starlogo and will greatly improve gameplay.

[发布机构] Massachusetts Institute of Technology