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#1 2007-12-20 15:30:22

k94u
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Registered: 2007-12-07
Posts: 2

pictures

I need help animating pictures.

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#2 2007-12-31 20:46:56

funnydamian18
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Registered: 2007-12-16
Posts: 4

Re: pictures

k94u wrote:

I need help animating pictures.

I don`t know how to do it ether

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#3 2008-01-01 04:58:01

Paddle2See
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Registered: 2007-10-27
Posts: 1000+

Re: pictures

There are a couple of ways to animate pictures.  One of the easiest is to use the Costume feature of sprites.  By copying a Costume and making slight changes to it, then repeating that process, you can end up with a series of Costumes that show a motion.  This is called Stop Frame animation.  By changing the Costumes quickly, it will look like motion to your eye.  You can see this in the sample sprite that shows up every time you start Scratch by building the script

     When Green Flag Clicked
     Forever
             Next Costume
             Wait 0.1

Where the Next Costume and the Wait are inside the Forever loop.  When you click on the Green Flag, the cat will look like it's walking because it is changing from one costume to another.  By changing the time between costume changes, with the Wait block, you can make it look slower or faster.

You can even do Stop Frame animation without any sprites by changing the Backgrounds of the Stage and using Next Background instead of Next Costume.

Another way to add motion to a project, is to use the Motion blocks such as Glide or Move 10 Steps.  Probably the easiest way to learn how to use these is to start playing around with a small project and see what the different blocks do.   Or look at the sample projects that come with Scratch.


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#4 2008-01-01 12:23:31

kevin_karplus
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Registered: 2007-04-27
Posts: 1000+

Re: pictures

Of course, you are not limited to doing stop-frame animation OR motion of sprites—you can do both at once!  By having two scripts running at once, one running through costumes and the other doing a glide, you can get fairly decent walking or flying animation with very little effort.

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#5 2008-01-01 19:40:08

funnydamian18
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Registered: 2007-12-16
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Re: pictures

k94u wrote:

I need help animating pictures.

I don`t know how to do it

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