3.7 -> 3.8  released 9/02/2023

• Improved camera centering on an object in layout/ortho view
• VR User has scale – Drink me!
• New camera marker model for VR User

• Larger Run window so you don’t forget its open
• Default values of enum parameters are indicated
• Camera views are more functional and consistent
• Improved Handle logic for model manipulation
• Zoom improvements for mouse wheel and trackpad
• Round out Camera FOV and Clipping Planes across Camera/VR and IDE/Player
• Updated Camera Markers
• Added support for VR

• Update Install4j file to version 10 – Fixes MacOS 13 Ventura install error in dark mode
• Fix Baby Penguin display error seen on some Macs
• Reconnect riders on Sims after resource change
• Prevent array out of bounds error (seen most often on Sims models)
• Fixed so statement drag and drop doesn’t leave screen residue
• Attach exception handler dialog to run window if it is active
• Improve Undo logic and inclusion
• JavaFX replaced JMF and general audio improvement
• Pause and resume audio when pausing and resume a world in the Run window

• Optimizations and logic fixes
• Right click selects in the scene and tree navigator
• Project and migration improvements
• Reduce unhelpful logging
• Improve code clarity and organization

Alice 3 End User License Agreement

Copyright (c) 2006-2017, Carnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved.

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Products derived from the software may not be called “Alice”, nor may “Alice” appear in their name, without prior written permission of Carnegie Mellon University.

4. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: “This product includes software developed by Carnegie Mellon University”

5. The gallery of art assets and animations provided with this software is contributed by Electronic Arts Inc. and may be used for personal, non-commercial, and academic use only. Redistributions of any program source code that utilizes The Sims 2 Assets must also retain the copyright notice, list of conditions and the disclaimer contained in The Alice 3.0 Art Gallery License.

DISCLAIMER:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.  ANY AND ALL EXPRESS, STATUTORY OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS, COPYRIGHT OWNERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM OR OTHERWISE RELATING TO THE USE OF OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

THE ALICE 3 ART GALLERY LICENSE.

The Alice 3.0 gallery of The Sims 2 art assets and animations is provided by Electronic Arts Inc. pursuant to this license.  Copyright (c) 2004 Electronic Arts Inc. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use of the The Sims 2 art assets, animations, and other materials (“The Sims 2 Assets”), without modification, are permitted solely with programs written with Alice 3.0 for personal, non-commercial, and academic use only, provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of any program source code that uses The Sims 2 Assets must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions of any program in binary form that uses The Sims 2 Assets must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the Electronic Arts Inc. nor any of its trademarks, including the trademark THE SIMS 2, may be used to endorse or promote programs or products derived from Alice 3.0 without specific prior written permission from Electronic Arts Inc.

4. All promotional materials mentioning features or use of Alice 3.0 must display the following acknowledgement: “This program/product includes art and animations developed by Electronic Arts Inc.”

THE SIMS 2 ASSETS ARE PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.  ANY AND ALL EXPRESS, STATUTORY OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM OR OTHERWISE RELATING TO THE USE OF OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SIMS 2 ASSETS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Hardware Recommendations

• Desktop or laptop computer.    Many netbook models are designed to work well with 2D graphics but are not up to snuff when trying to deliver 3D graphics animation. We suggest trying Alice on the netbook that will be used with Alice before purchase.
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more is recommended, but not required)
• VGA graphics card capable of high (64 bit) color and at least 1024×768 resolution (3D video card gives faster performance, but is not required)
• Sound card
• Two- or three-button mouse. The touchpad on a laptop may be used. Please note, however, that arranging 3D objects in a virtual world is easier with a mouse than with a touchpad.

Windows

• Windows (Windows XP, Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit (thanks pcwiz84 for Win8 info), Windows 10)

NOTE: The Intel Integrated chipset that is found on many notebook, netbook, and other machines has trouble trying to run Alice. Some higher-end Vista machines have also had difficulties. Decreasing hardware acceleration  or decreasing color resolution (from 32 bit to 16 bit) has sometimes been helpful. See also the note below on updating video drivers.

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.6 and later
• Intel processor

Linux

• Ubuntu, Red Hat
• Alice needs 250MB of free space
• Please have opengl drivers and a Java Runtime Environment.
• Our Linux Alice release require the installation of Java. Depending on your OS and other installed applications you may or may not have Java installed. For Alice we recommend Java 17. You only need the JRE (though our test was using the full JDK).
• Install the openjdk version using the following:
  sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk openjdk-17-jre

Raspberry Pi

We recommend using the .deb installer for the Pi. It will check the system and install java and the required libraries for you and it will add Alice 3 to the general launch menu under development.  Follow the directions above to add Java to the Pi.  Depending on Pi version follow these additional steps.

To run Alice on the Pi 3 it must be configured with Full KMS. This is needed for JOGL to work. To do this:

• sudo raspi-config

• Then select:
6 Advanced Options >> A2 GL Driver >> G3 GL (Full KMS)

For the Raspberry Pi 4 you may need to add an additional library (if you used the .deb installer we will have done this for you). If this is not working correctly you will notice it via certain models including the person builder not functioning (we are working on the best way to integrate this).

• sudo apt install libglu1-mesa

Chromebook (beta)

Chromebooks with a native Linux Development Environment can run Alice 3. Many schools will not allow students to access the Linux Development Environment and enable GPU Support needed to run Alice 3. 

Instructions for installing Alice 3 on Chromebooks:

Enable Linux in Settings/Advanced/Developers>> Linux Development Environment.

At the root level, get updates and Install java 17:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install openjdk-17-jdk

Download latest Alice 3 debian (.deb)  file.

Launch Linux/start Terminal

Right click on deb file: Install with Linux

Install libglu1-mesa (otherwise art assets won’t initialize).

Open Terminal and type: sudo apt install libglu1-mesa

If you have difficulty loading models into the scene, you may need to enabled GPU support:

In the Chrome browser, type ‘Chrome://Flags’, enable: scheduler configuration and crostini gpu support.  Restart.

If you run into rendering bugs,  DISABLE the flags and restart.

Video Requirements

A frequent cause of problems encountered when attempting to run Alice are out-of-date video drivers. This is recognizable when a red-screen occurs in the scene view or the run-time window when the Run button is clicked. See the following link for instructions on updating the video drivers of your machine. Updating Video Drivers

English (Base Language)
Portuguese (Brasil) (47%)
Spanish (52%)
Greek (76%)
Romanian (69%)
Solvenian (40%)
Russian (65%)
Ukranian (11%)
Turkish (62%)
Arabic (46%)
Chinese (98%)
Japanese (35%)
Bulgarian (75%)

Languages can be selected in the menu windows/preferences/locale It is recommended that you restart the application after changing the language.

The percentages represent the level of completion of the translation.  In many cases the majority of the interface has been translated and the difference is due to new gallery assets being added after the localization.  We are open to partnering with anyone ot help complete existing languages or add more so please reach out to us to inquire about helping us.

We strongly suggest you update to the newest build of Alice whenever possible.  The team has spent a lot of time to fix bugs and add new content to help you have the best experience possible.  Additionally we will not officially support these older versions as you may be reporting bugs that have been fixed in subsequent versions.  We do test to make sure that worlds built in older versions of the software will be forward compatible so that you can open and resave worlds from these older versions in the newest version of Alice.  If for some reason that doesn’t prove to be true please contact us.

Version 3.7 Windows (8/30/2022)

Download Alice 3.7 Installer for Windows 64 Bit (1.41 GB)

Version 3.7 – Mac (8/30/2022)

Download Alice 3.7 Installer for Mac (1.41 GB)

Version 3.7 – Linux (8/30/2022)

Download Alice 3.7 Installer for Linux (1.41 GB)

Version 3.6.0.3 Windows (10/25/2021)

Download Alice 3.6.0.3 Installer for Windows 64 Bit (1.41 GB)

Download Alice 3.6.0.3 Installer for Windows 32 Bit (1.45 GB)

Version 3.6.0.2 – Mac (8/19/2021)

Download Alice 3.6.0.2 Installer for Mac (1.41 GB)

Version 3.6.0.2 – Linux (8/19/2021)

Download Alice 3.6.0.2 Installer for Linux (1.41 GB)

Version 3.6.0.1 Release (10/9/2020)

Download Alice 3.6.0.1 Installer for Windows (64-bit) (1.45 GB)

Download Alice 3.6.0.1 Installer for Windows (32 bit) (1.52 GB)

Download Alice 3.6.0.1 Installer for Mac (1.47 GB)

Download Alice 3.6.0.1 Installer for Linux (1.27 GB)

Version 3.5.0.0.0 Release (4/10/2019)

*Installer note – due to issues with this installer please be sure to do a clean install of this version.  Upgrading from a previous version may cause old files to persist leading to users experiencing old bugs.

Download Alice 3.5 Installer for Windows (64-bit) (1.43 GB)

Download Alice 3.5 Installer for Windows (32 bit) (1.5 GB)

Download Alice 3.5 Installer for Mac (1.45 GB)

Download Alice 3.5 Installer for Linux (1.35 GB)

Version 3.4.0.0.0 Release (3/12/2018)

Download Alice 3.4 Installer for Windows (64-bit) (1.43 GB)

Download Alice 3.4 Installer for Windows (32 bit) (1.49 GB)

Download Alice 3.4 Installer for Mac (1.44 GB)

Download Alice 3.4 Installer for Linux (1.34 GB)

The Alice Project has made the source code for this project available on GitHub.  View our Org page here:

https://github.com/TheAliceProject

We hope that this will enable our community to find even more ways to help support our project through active participation in the development of the project. We have not yet added specific bugs and issues to this repo but there is plenty on our active bugs and wish list. If you or someone you know is a Java expert and would like to help contribute to the project don’t hesitate to reach out to us with questions about how your efforts and abilities could be focused on our current needs.