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Scratch Cookbook

You're reading from   Scratch Cookbook If want to get your programming know-how off the starting blocks in a fun, involving way, then this guide to Scratch is perfect. In no time you'll be building your own interactive programs that include animations and sound.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849518420
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brandon Milonovich Brandon Milonovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Scratch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Scratch FREE CHAPTER 2. Storytelling 3. Adding Animation 4. Basic Gaming 5. Spicing up Games 6. Bringing in Sound 7. Integrating PicoBoards 8. Programming to Calculate 9. Project Remixing Collaboration Index

Other fun graphic effects


Now that we have a lot of the other story-creating features, we can have a little fun changing graphics in our story! You might have already taken a look and played around with some of the Looks blocks we haven't really talked about yet. This is where we will formally look at a few more of these.

Getting ready

Here in this recipe, we're going to focus on changing the color effect. Later, we'll also see a few other things you can do with the appearance of sprites. Our time will be spent adding the following three blocks to what we have so far:

The first of these will help us give our sprites some fun effects while the other two will be used to reset those effects back to our starting place.

How to do it...

Let's get started:

  1. Let's begin by making sure that everything is reset at the start of the program, even though we know nothing has been changed yet. This will make sure we don't forget to have our graphic effects reset later.

    Note

    These graphic effects are sprite specific...

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