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- How to create a sprite
- How to create a costume for a sprite
- How to change the backdrop of the stage
- I will be able to change a sprite
- I will be able to create multiple costumes for a sprite
- I will be able to change the costume of a sprite in Scratch
- I will be able to change the backdrop of the stage
Creating our own sprite
We can create our own sprites in Scratch. To do this, select Costumes at the top.
Once you have the screen above, we are going to change the appearance of the cat.
The tools to the left side of the sprite allow us to change the appearance of sprite. Try them out so that you get an idea as to what they all do.
You can change your sprite's appearance however you want using these tools – it's entirely up to you. Be creative!
Changing a sprite will require you to change every costume you want to use.
Changing costumes
Now we are going to make our character change costumes. We can change the costume of our characters by clicking on one of them on the left. At the moment we have only changed the first costume.
To change the second costume, we need to click on the one that says costume2 (note that the name might be different depending on the name of the sprite, for example the Bat will have different costumes).
Change the second costume to look similar to the previous one. For example, in the example shown you can see that the cat has red eyes, for the second costume the cat would also have to have red eyes.
We do this because otherwise when the character changes costume they would look very different. We want them to remain mostly the same.
Changing the background
Once you have changed your sprite, we are now going to change the backdrop of our stage.
Click the Choose a Backdrop icon at the bottom right of the screen until you get a screen like the following screen:
At the top right you can search for a backdrop. When you have found a backdrop you are happy with, click it.
- Create your own sprite using the editor.
- When you have created it, right click it and then click 'Export' and save it to your computer.