MasterStudio Tutorial

4-659-404-11(1) 4-652-241-11(1) English Edition Tutorial Guide © 2001 Sony Corporation ©2002 Sony CorporationTable of contents Introduction Before You Start ....................................................................................................... 8 About the Manuals .................................................................................................. 8 About the Online Manuals................................................................................ 8 Getting prepared ...................................................................................................... 8 Organization of the Tutorial Guide ......................................................................... 9 Let’s Create Behaviors! ............................................................................................ 9eate Actions! .............................................................................................. 10 Files in the Tutorial ................................................................................................. 12 Files of Action Composer ...................................................................................... 12 Let’s Create Behaviors! Lesson 1 Touch AIBO’s Sensor and AIBO stands up, sits down and lies down ......................................................................................................... 14 Starting Quick Behavior Arranger ....................................................................... 14 Creating a sequential-execution program .......................................................... 15 Saving the program to the “Memory Stick”....................................................... 16 Running the program on AIBO............................................................................ 17 Lesson 2 Press AIBO’s Head and It Sits; Say ”Start” and It Walks ...................... 18 Starting Quick Behavior Arranger ....................................................................... 19 Creating a Stimulus-driven Execution program ............................................... 19 Saving the program to the “Memory Stick”....................................................... 21 Running the program on AIBO 21 2Lesson 3 Walk and Bow ........................................................................................ 22 Getting ready .......................................................................................................... 22 Creating a new behavior ....................................................................................... 23 Making action boxes .............................................................................................. 24 Making a “stand” action box .......................................................................... 24 Making a “walk and bow” action box ........................................................... 26 Connecting action boxes 28 Saving the program and running it on AIBO .................................................... 30 Using a wireless LAN ............................................................................................ 30 Lesson 4 AIBO Bows If Head Is Pressed ............................................................... 33 Opening the file created in Lesson 3 ................................................................... 34 Making boxes.......................................................................................................... 35 Connecting the boxes to loop the program ........................................................ 38 Saving the program and running it on AIBO .................................................... 41 Lesson 5 Say “AIBO” and AIBO Bows and Greets You........................................ 42 Preparing an action library ................................................................................... 43 Collecting boxes together to make a group 45 Moving the TOUCH_HEAD? and WAIT_1SEC boxes into a Group ....... 45 Editing a branch box and an action box ........................................................ 46 Embedding an action file into a program ..................................................... 51 Embedding the group and completing the program ........................................ 52 Saving the program and running it on AIBO .................................................... 55 Lesson 6 Doing Several Actions Simultaneously ................................................ 56 Checking the current program ............................................................................. 57 Executing several actions simultaneously.......................................................... 58 Saving the program and running it on AIBO 61 Lesson 7 Mastering Advanced Techniques 63 Preparing the file .................................................................................................... 63 Checking the main program ................................................................................. 63 Checking the program in the “Ball Searching” group box .............................. 64 Changing the action depending on the number of the running command ................................................................................................ 66 Checking the “Kick” group program .................................................................. 67 Rearranging the terminals .................................................................................... 68 3Creating Actions! Window Organization ........................................................................................... 70 Lesson 1 Let’s Create an Action Library! .............................................................. 72 Getting prepared .................................................................................................... 73 Creating an action library ..................................................................................... 73 Creating an action .................................................................................................. 74 Adding a supplied action to the library ............................................................. 76 Saving to the “Memory Stick”.............................................................................. 77 Saving the library via a wireless LAN ................................................................ 78 Lesson 2 Let‘s Preview a Created Action! ............................................................ 80 Previewing an action and elements on the PC .................................................. 81 Preview the motion .......................................................................................... 82 Preview the sound ............................................................................................ 83 Previewing LEDs .............................................................................................. 84 Testing an action on AIBO .................................................................................... 85 Checking an action or elements not registered to the action library .............. 86 Checking an action ........................................................................................... 86 Checking elements 87 Lesson 3 Let’s Edit Elements ................................................................................. 90 Preparing elements ................................................................................................ 91 Editing a motion ..................................................................................................... 92 Editing a pose ................................................................................................... 92 Adding a key frame ......................................................................................... 93 Editing a sound ...................................................................................................... 94................................................................................................. 94 Adjusting the starting point of the sound .................................................... 96 Editing the LEDs .................................................................................................... 96 Adding LED data ............................................................................................. 96 Making the LEDs flash .................................................................................... 98 Saving the action file ........................................................................................... 100 4Lesson 4 Let’s Create Original Elements! ........................................................... 101 Creating an action file ......................................................................................... 102 Creating a motion ................................................................................................ 102 Creating sounds ................................................................................................... 105 Combining elements ............................................................................................ 107 Lesson 5 Let’s Light up the LEDs to the Music .................................................. 108 Lesson 6 Tips for creating actions ...................................................................... 112 General .................................................................................................................. 112 Motion ................................................................................................................... 112 Information about Each Model .......................................................................... 116 Sound: WAVE ....................................................................................................... 117 Sound: MIDI ................................