{"id":2165,"date":"2016-11-14T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2016-11-19T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T12:29:36","slug":"import-3d-scenes-into-minecraft-using-mcedit2-makered-minecraft-minecraftedu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/import-3d-scenes-into-minecraft-using-mcedit2-makered-minecraft-minecraftedu\/","title":{"rendered":"Import 3D Scenes Into Minecraft using MCEdit2 #makered #minecraft #minecraftedu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Fimport-3d-scenes-into-minecraft-using-mcedit2-makered-minecraft-minecraftedu%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>In our classes for young makers, we discuss how digital fabrication technology will be a game-changer. \u00a0 In future work, more jobs will involve converting digital content into physical things through technologies like 3D printing, CNC, and other similar technologies. \u00a0 Students love playing video games and enjoy the opportunity to learn how to make their own game worlds. \u00a0 At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofaviation.net\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, GA<\/a>, I had the opportunity to teach a workshop on building amazing game worlds in Minecraft using TinkerCAD.com. \u00a0 It&#8217;s so much fun to share these lessons with students! \u00a0After guiding the students through some of the basic operations of <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/3-tutorials-on-3d-modelling-with-tinkercad-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TinkerCAD.com<\/a>, we encourage the students to play and build projects that they care about. \u00a0 It was cool to see their finished work in Minecraft. \u00a0 While the students think about &#8220;playing and building,&#8221; they are actually exposed to many engineering\u00a0and math skills too. \u00a0 The students learned how to displace objects in 3D space, rotate objects, scale objects, perform measurement, and many other mathematical\u00a0ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the students attempted to build a Minecraft roller coaster structure. \u00a0 In a secondary step, we added Minecraft train tracks and red stone power rails to power our Minecarts. \u00a0It turned out great!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2166\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20-1024x561.png\" alt=\"Minecraft Roller coaster\" width=\"608\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20-1024x561.png 1024w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20-300x164.png 300w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20-768x420.png 768w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20-900x493.png 900w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.39.20.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our students decided to build a huge Minecraft creeper! \u00a0A friend of mine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampersandguild.com\/\">Ampersand Arts in Macon<\/a>Macon, helped build the huge snow man\u00a0shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2167\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12-1024x561.png\" alt=\"Creeper, snowman, and friends\" width=\"608\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12-1024x561.png 1024w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12-300x164.png 300w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12-768x420.png 768w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12-900x493.png 900w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.40.12.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see a car, tie fighter, and rockets built by the students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2168\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17-1024x561.png\" alt=\"Car, Tie Fighter, Rockets\" width=\"608\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17-1024x561.png 1024w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17-300x164.png 300w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17-768x420.png 768w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17-900x493.png 900w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-14_07.43.17.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very proud of the focus and work of our students. \u00a0I&#8217;m also thankful to my friend Jake who helped coach the class with me.<\/p>\n<p>To support parents, students, and teachers, I wanted to share a few tips to enable you to build stuff like this in Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a schematic file?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A schematic file contains 3D model data to transfer content into Minecraft. \u00a0 \u00a0You can find schematic data files on web sites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraft-schematics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minecraft-schematics.com\/<\/a>\u00a0. \u00a0 You can also create 3D models and convert them to schematic files using <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/3-tutorials-on-3d-modelling-with-tinkercad-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TinkerCAD.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ABAMuRQN00\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you import schematic files into Minecraft?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to share a quick tutorial video on using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcedit.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">MCEdit <\/a>to import schematic content into Minecraft. Before doing the steps mentioned in this video, make sure to install Minecraft on your computer and create at least one world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P13ii-XEWok\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n1. Open your web browser and navigate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcedit.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mcedit.net\/<\/a> .<br \/>\n2. Click the &#8220;Download&#8221; menu option at the top.<br \/>\n3. You will want to download the latest version appropriate for your operating system. In this tutorial, we will download version 2 beta 6 for Windows. (64 bit version)<br \/>\n4. After the install program has been downloaded, execute the program and specify a location to store &#8220;mcedit.&#8221; For this demo, we will store MCEdit in &#8220;c:\\games\\mcedit.&#8221; \u00a0Using our file explorer, we will navigate to the MCEdit folder.<br \/>\n5. Open the &#8220;mcedit2-win64-2.0.0-beta6&#8221; folder.<br \/>\n6. Run MCEdit<br \/>\n7. In the panel on the left, MCEdit lists the minecraft game worlds saved by your current user account. For this demo, we&#8217;ll open the world called &#8220;demo.&#8221;<br \/>\n8. Select &#8220;demo&#8221;.<br \/>\n9. Click the button &#8220;edit.&#8221;<br \/>\n10. You can move around this gameworld using &#8220;WASD&#8221; navigation style.<br \/>\n11. You can change the direction the player is looking by holding the &#8220;right&#8221; mouse button and dragging the mouse.<br \/>\n12. To import a schematic file, click the &#8220;Import\/Export &gt; Import&#8221;<br \/>\n13. The system will open a file box enabling you to select a schematic. For this demo, we&#8217;ll select a small car created by one my students.<br \/>\n14. The XYZ numbers here enable you to adjust the location of the schematic content. In my case, I&#8217;ll edit the &#8220;y&#8221; coordinate to make sure to car connects to the ground.<br \/>\n15. Click the &#8220;confirm&#8221; button to accept the schematic content into the world.<br \/>\n16. Keep in mind, you&#8217;re not done yet. You need to save the session by clicking the &#8220;MCEdit&#8221; menu followed by &#8220;save world.&#8221;<br \/>\n17. You&#8217;re all done. Close MCEdit.<br \/>\n18. Open up Minecraft to test that your schematic file shows up correctly in your world!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We want to say thank you to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofaviation.net\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Aviation of Warner Robins, GA<\/a> for enabling us to share this workshop. \u00a0 Make sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofaviation.net\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\">their fantastic STEM education workshops here<\/a>. \u00a0We also want to give a shout out to the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinkercad.com\" target=\"_blank\">TinkerCAD.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/MCEdit.NET\" target=\"_blank\">MCEdit.NET<\/a>. \u00a0 Without their care and craft, we wouldn&#8217;t be able to inspire these students as makers of the future. \u00a0I really appreciate their work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make sure to check out our next workshop!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Robotics<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Building upon the programming skills introduced early in the program, students will have the opportunity to build robots from scratch using the mBot kit. \u00a0\u00a0Students will love customizing their mBot using puzzle based programming and the easy to assemble construction experience. \u00a0\u00a0Students take home their mbot to continue the tinkering fun at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student registration includes a complete mBot robotics kit from <a href=\"http:\/\/Makeblock.cc\" target=\"_blank\">Makeblock.cc<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeblock.cc\/mbot\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.makeblock.cc\/mbot\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chkpweFx6G4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workshop length: 3 hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cost: $20 + $75(cost of mBot kit)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkmacon.com\/product\/maker-skills-robotics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Register for the workshop today!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dates &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Dec 3rd\u00a0from 1pm to 4pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Location &#8211; SparkMacon Makerspace &#8211; 557 Cherry St, Macon, GA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkmacon.com\/contact\/\">parking\/directions<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>All ages and experience levels<\/strong> are welcome and the workshops are a great activity for the entire family. 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