Tutorials

We have tried our best to make Visual SceneMaker very intuitive and simple to use. However, we strongly recommend you to follow these guidelines to speed up you familiarization with the tool.

Concept and Motivation

The VisualSceneMaker software component has two main operation modes: 1) model authoring, and 2) model execution. Technically, The VisualSceneMaker can be described as an software agent director. The VisualSceneMaker model consists of commands for various agents.

Commands for agents can be created with a Scenescript or directly.

Getting familiar with Scenescripts

• Scene format

Getting familiar with the Sceneflow language

• Sceneflow, Nodes and SuperNodes
• Understanding Edges
• Variable and Command definitions.

Hands on excercises and guidance

• Starting Visual SceneMaker.
• Creating a new SceneFlow.
• The Visual SceneMaker IDE.
• Hello World.
• Adding Functions to Nodes.
• Concurrent Node Playing.
• Using Contitional Edges.
• If - Then Statements.
• Loops.
• Interruptive Edges.
• Working with Scenes.
• Searching in the script editor.
• Undoing/redoing in the sceneflow and scene-script editor.
• Finding scene by clicking the scene name from the building blocks.
• Error indicator.
• Activating code completion.
• Using the property editor.
• Changing the name of the Project.
• Voice Activity Detector (VAD).

Stickman

• Emotion Expression in Stickman.

• Emotion Expression in Stickman3D.

• Tts Stickman tutorial.

• Stickman3D-Pinoccio tutorial.

• Working with Virtual Reeti.

Robots

• Installing Baxter and Mary TTS.

• Working with a Baxter Robot.

• Conecting Baxter Robot and Mary TTS.
• Connecting VisualSceneMaker to ALMA.

• Working with REETI.

• REETI with CereprocTts.

For developers

• How to create a new Plugin/Extension
• Creating our first extension: An echo extension
• Adding code completion for our extension
• How to show the parameters of a extension in the property editor

Hints, best practice and code snippets for developers

• Using The VisualSceneMaker in an Java application.

Some other examples:

• TowerDefence.