How to change the size of the sprite in Unit 3 Lesson 1

CS Discoveries Unit and Lesson Discussion
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I am trying to assist my students with changing the size of the sprite to not take up the whole screen when they create animation. but i am not finding a sprite.scale block.

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@brownr3,

They will get that block in one of the next lessons, but that is a common student request, so what I usually do is show them how to quickly switch to text mode and I have them type one line of code and then switch back to block mode.

sprite.scale=0.5;

Then, back in block mode, they are free to play around with the number to get it the size they want. It’s not usually something I show the whole class, but you could. I usually just show it to the kids who ask and it seems pretty intuitive to them, so it takes me less than a minute and they are happy until the actual block is introduced to them.

Mike

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Hi brownr3,
You could just type sprite.scale, while replacing sprite with the actual name of the sprite as follows:
var SpriteName = createSprite(200, 200);
SpriteName.setAnimation(Animation);
SpriteName.scale = 0.1
Any number in between 0 and 1 will reduce the size. Any number greater than 1 will make the sprite bigger.