Skydiving Guidance System - ALICE Program

Skydiving Guidance System

Alice Liddell (People) has taken up a new hobby: skydiving. She is on a helicopter (Vehicle), wearing a parachute (Objects). She is to jump to the carrier (Vehicle), which is a little way in front of her. In the world shown below, we added a half cylinder (Shapes) inverted and connected to the helicopter to be used as a jump platform. A torus (Shapes) was used to create a harness for Alice Liddell. (Although this isn’t absolutely necessary, it is helpful due to Alice Liddell’s small waist compared to the parachute’s cords.) 


             

The idea of this animation is to provide a skydiving guidance system to allow the user to guide the movement of Alice Liddell as she jumps from the platform of the helicopter and glides down to the carrier. When the user thinks Alice Liddell has hit the top of the carrier, the user can press the Enter key to have Alice Liddell drop her chute.

Guidance system methods (as smooth and lifelike as possible):

• jump: jump from the helicopter’s platform 
• glideForward, glideBack, glideRight, glideLeft: glide in the appropriate direction
• swingLegs: legs swing a bit when gliding or jumping
• dropChute: get rid of parachute (to simplify things, just have the chute rotate as if it were falling and make it disappear)

Keyboard controls:

• Space bar—jump off the platform 
• Up/Down/right/left arrow—glide forward/back/right/left
• Enter key—parachute drops 

Remember that Alice Liddell should first jump off the platform prior to gliding and should not drop her chute until she hits the carrier.

Solution:

The program works with user interaction. When user presses "Space bar" it initiates the game and Alice jumps and glides off the helicopter. User can then use arrow controls from keyboard to maneuver the parachute towards the Carrier platform

1) Press Space bar: to jump off the platform
2) Press Arrow keys - move in respective direction and move towards Carrier platform
3) When Alice reaches Carrier platform, press Enter to make it land

See the attached video created using Alice 2.3 for this program

Contact me @ allassignmenthelp@gmail.com for the comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to create this game in ALICE as well as the final source code. I can modify the program if you would need any changes.