Hello amazing people!
We will be teaching you today our first first Scratch project, which is How to Move Objects in Scratch.
This was my first project which I did using ScratchJr iPad app when I was 4 years old.
Now I use grown-up Scratch in which moving is also very simple. So let’s get started.
Ammal’s Fish Aquarium: Scratch for Kids by Kid
We will take a Fish, a Crab and Octopus move them using 3 different ways:
Using Move
Move is the simplest function to change position of an object (called Sprite in scratch).
We put 10 steps in move [under Motion] and put it within Forever function [under Control section].
We also add ‘if on edge, bounce’. If you don’t use it, the sprite will cross background boundary and you won’t be able to see it.
Rotation style is to ?
Using Glide
To understand Glide, think that every object on Scratch has X and Y axis [x-axis is horizontal (across), while the y-axis is vertical (up-down)].
When you start new project, you see Scratch Cat right in middle, which are [X,Y] = [0,0]. See below screenshot
So you can glide any object to any X,Y coordinates. Below code is making Fish go to [-220, 100] as starting point towards left of screen.
Then we use Glide to move to point [220,124] which is right of screen. We also define time to glide for example 9 seconds.
Using X, Y coordinates
Similar to Glide, we can also use Change X [or Change Y] coordinates to move. It
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