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Appendix 2: Answers to Exercises
Q: look at the right-click menu.
Q: Try the nice day example above, then control-up-arrow.
Q: What is camera01's field of view?
Q: Define stop loudly to stop playing and say the final frame number.
Q: What are the room names?
Q: How many colors are there?
Q: What is the plural of mesh? How does Synthia know?
Q: Try the obvious
Q: What nonterminal matches an outcome? What else matches it?
Q: Find some ways to minimize Synthia with rules using `LLhide`
Q: Find alternate forms with rules meaning shut down.
Q: How many rules have you created?
Q: define half time as click half speed instead. What is the left-hand nonterminal now?
Q: Make the sentence help me open Synthia's pdf manual.
Q: Create a rule that restores the current value of the scene's multiple export settings, so that you can create and switch among different sets.
Q: Where else might you want to use a variation on current value in the putback rule above?
Q: How can you delete the last rule you created, if it is wrong?
Q: Create a noisy lock verb, to lock a tracker then what's been done.
Q: How many metaattributes does a camera have?
Q: How can you talk about a vector at specific coordinates?
Q: Find the internal rules associated with a tracker's location.
Q: Find the possible values of a tracker's axis lock metaattribute.
Q: Make all trackers unlocked and far—but a little quicker.
Q: Find all the hidden metaattributes, and how to hide one.
Q: List all the metaverbs
Q: What if you don't want to export some trackers?
Q: How do you set the value on one frame from a value on another?
Q: What does flash red and blue trackers really mean?
Q: What does flash trackers that are red and blue do?
Q: Find ten longest-lived trackers
Q: Short-lived trackers aren't as reliable; create an adjective to find them.
Q: Use a far tracker to position a distant light
Q: Make teapot 1 twice as far from the origin
Q: You made 10 teapots with Duplicate Mesh. Twist them 45 degrees.
Q: Define a rule to easily translate the whole scene by a vector.
Q: Check out the various forms of transform whole.
Q: Create a less redundant version using otherwise or return.
Q: Add a center tracker to be clicked in the middle of the favorites.
Q: Define your own multi-step procedure.
Q: Tell Synthia to reset to the Solver room if there is no current room.
Q: For illustration only, determine if it is a stereo shot via the Shot menu.
Q: What action id might be handy for a tea party?
Q: What does the sentence go! do?
Q: Create a mesh, open the Duplicate Mesh script, then look at its children.
Q: What's different if you then click control-up-arrow in the text entry window?
Q: Define a procedure to show all a window's children, and their children...
Q: How does click ok work? What effect can that have?
Q: Turn on Corners on the Summary Panel, regardless of its prior state.
Q: Click the Set Seed button on the Coordinates panel using its id.
Q: The better approach: define a procedure for Set Seed directly.
Q: Make an equivalent to create cones. Why is it less useful?
Q: Turn on the cloud system.
Q: Try the example just given.
Q: Find the synthia_my_rules.sia file and read what's in it.
Q: exit from Synthia, find synthia.xml, delete it, start Synthia, and watch the rebuild.
Q: Find the existing input substitutions
Q: Define input substitutions for a SynthEyes/Synthia word to correct common misspellings that are not valid words. Use the cloud!
Q: Anything in Synthia about cubes?
Q: What kinds of meshes are there?
Q: List all possible solvermodes.
Q: List all possible goldenvalues. How many are there really?
Q: Locate and use the additional forms of for each.
Q: Say the number of selected trackers when the selection changes.
Q: What are the rules for the os x context?
Q: What are synonyms for os x?
Q: Create snarky rules for what's under the hood? for each operating system.
Q: Delete those three rules.
Q: Write 1+2*3 to get 9 without changing the order of the numbers.
Q: How can you list private rules?
Q: Synthia contains magic. Find it.
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