Friday post sept 23

Friday post

This week we learned how to use khan academy

using codes to make shapes and fill them with colors.

we made a dinner plate and a few versions of a snowman during this time. you can also earn points to get other icons by doing these things and there is many more to challenge yourself with. 

Tips

Follow the videos they give you a good view on the ways to use code to make all the projects that the site will give you.

here are some codes to use: ellipse(x,y,h,w); 

rect(x,y,h,w);

line(x,y,h,w);

Planet Base

Friday post

Friday post

I learned how to use pivot animator and reviewed how to use blogspot again.

We started by animating Scott Sterling getting hit in the face with a soccer ball in five different scenes. To do this we move characters slowly in a pattern that makes it look like they are moving or getting hit with something. Here are some tricks to skip some of the process of the steps.

P - Play animation (+Ctrl for Preview frame)
S - Stop animation
B - set Background from background selector
F - add Figure from Figure selector
E - Edit figure type of selected figure
O - center selected figure (move to Origin)
M - flip / Mirror selected figure
C - set Colour of selected figure
J - Join selected figure to another figure
Delete - Delete selected figure
Shift+Up - raise selected figure in draw order (+Ctrl for 1 step)
Shift+Down - lower selected figure in draw order (+Ctrl for 1 step)
arrow keys - move selected figure (rotate segment if cursor over handle)
Ctrl+Left - set selected figure to previous in the list
Ctrl+Right - set selected figure to next in the list
A / Space - Add the frame or store the frame being edited
Ctrl+H - show / hide Handles of unselected figures
Ctrl+C - Copy selected figure
Ctrl+V - paste selected figure
Ctrl+Alt+D - Delete selected frames
Ctrl+Alt+C - Copy selected frames
Ctrl+Alt+V - paste selected frames
<> - store current frame and step to the previous/next frame

Ctrl+N - New animation
Ctrl+O - Open animation
Ctrl+S - Save animation
Ctrl+Alt+S - Save animation as
Ctrl+E - Export animation
Ctrl+B - load Background
Ctrl+I - load sprite Image
Ctrl+F - load Figure type (stk)
Ctrl+Alt+F - open Figure builder window

Ctrl+Z - undo
Ctrl+Y - redo
Ctrl+A - select All figures
Ctrl+D - Duplicate figure
Ctrl+Alt+O - open Options window

Ctrl+Alt+H - go to Pivot Help files web page
Ctrl+Alt+R - view ReadMe files
Ctrl+Alt+A - open About window

FIGURE BUILDER WINDOW

C - add a Circle segment
L - add a Line segment
K - change the Kind of the selected segment (line/circle)
F - change the Fill of the selected circle
D - Duplicate selected segment (+Shift for the whole branch, +Ctrl for mirror)
Up/Down - thickness +/-1 (+Shift for the whole branch, +Ctrl for +/-5)
S - make the selected segment Static/dynamic (+Shift for the whole branch)
O - set Origin joint of the figure at selected segment
Insert - split selected segment (+Shift for the whole branch)
Delete - Delete selected segment (+Shift for the whole branch)

Ctrl+N - New figure
Ctrl+O - Open figure

Ctrl+S - Save figure
Ctrl+Alt+S - Save As
Ctrl+A - Add figure to animation
Ctrl+Z - undo
Ctrl+Y - redo
Ctrl+T - make window Transparent / opaque
<> - decrease / increase window transparency
Ctrl+E - Edit mode

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