Chapter 1: Telling a Story - Section 11 Animation Details: Sub-Parts (part 1)

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11. Animation Details: Sub-Parts (part 1)

[Q 1.11.1] For this question, we don't expect you to know the answer for SURE. But, based on your experiences to now, if you had to GUESS, how do you predict the turn method will behave? What about the roll method? Will it do something else?

Instructor note: Really, REALLY we don't care or expect if they give this right. They haven't even played with the roll method yet. We just want them to start thinking -- I don't KNOW, but maybe I could guess what this might do. Then I could try it out to see if I am right. The sample answer is far more than we might expect a student to produce.

[A.1.11.1] The turn method will only act on the arm, causing it to move. When other objects turn, they go left or right. So maybe turn left, for example, will make him raise his arm sideways out to the left. Roll, maybe roll makes the arm roll around the whole arm. Like if I hold my arm out palm up, then maybe roll makes it go palm down or something.

Whatever it does, roll should do SOMETHING different than turn.