Looks Palette in Scratch

Although we can draw visuals directly on the Stage using pen commands, costumes offer another strong and occasionally even simpler option to do so. The command in Looks Palette helps us with the same.

Looks Palette

Looks palette will let you manipulate costumes to create animations, add thought bubbles, apply graphic effects, and change a sprite’s visibility.

Animating Sprite Using Costume

You can move a Sprite using motion commands, but they jump from one point to another. To make a sprite look like actually in motion we use Costumes!

The key to its motion is the "next costume" command, which tells the sprite to put on the next costume in its list. It makes the sprite roll over to its next costume in the list.

To animate a sprite consecutively,use the switch costume to () and wait () seconds blocks.

A Control block and a Stack block both make up the Wait () Seconds block. The wait can alternatively be a decimal number, in which case it stops the script for the number of seconds supplied.

We could make a sprite's costume change in response to a mouse click, if we want people to interact with it using "when this sprite clicked" block.

You will learn more about Looks and Sound palettes in our next blog.