5.03 Show curiosity

MIT Scratch 05. Surprise! animation 5.03 Show curiosity

Will the object do something to attract attention? How will the character react? You decide! Create the second part of your animation.

A film strip with 3 frames. The second frame is highlighted. The frame shows a scene with character thinking 'hmmmm' while looking at a curious object.

Decomposition is breaking a project down into parts that are smaller and easier to understand. This means that you can build a project one part at a time until you have completed it. In this step you will focus only on the curiosity part of your animation.

The object

Choose: If you want the 🎂🎾🎁 interesting object to do something to attract attention, choose what the object will do.

A desert background with a rock jiggling back and forth.

Add blocks to the end of the 🎂🎾🎁 interesting object’s when green flag clicked setup script.

Rooster effects: See inside

The set color effect to and change color effect by blocks both have drop-down menus in which you can choose from a range of different graphic effects that can be used to change your sprite’s appearance:

color: from 0 to 199 (bigger numbers will wrap around, so 200 is the same as 0)
fisheye: 0 means no effect, bigger numbers cause a bigger ‘fisheye’ effect, and negative numbers cause a reverse ‘fisheye’ effect
whirl: 0 means no effect, big numbers make a big whirl to the left, and big negative numbers make a big whirl to the right
pixelate: 0 means no effect, and bigger numbers create more pixels
mosaic: 0 means no effect, and bigger or negative numbers affect the number of copies
brightness: 0 means no effect, numbers up to 100 make the sprite lighter, and negative numbers down to -100 make the sprite darker
ghost: 0 means no effect, and numbers up to 100 make the sprite more transparent

Try to set the different effect values to see what each one does. Explore how different effect changes make your sprite look.

setwhirleffectto100setpixelateeffectto50

Tip: A color effect of 225 is the same as a color effect of 25, so you can keep changing the colour. For other graphic effects, no other changes will be made after you reach the maximum or minimum number for the effect.

foreverchangecoloreffectby25wait0.5seconds

Use the clear graphic effects block to start again. Clicking on the green flag also clears all graphic effects.

To set a graphic effect for a sprite when the project is started, place a set graphic effect to block under a when green flag clicked block:

whenclickedsetghosteffectto25

Tip: You can also set and change graphic effects for the Stage.

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