Information and Links for 17-April-2021

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Hello again everyone.

Here are all the links and information you will need for this week’s session. If you find you are having problems joining your group, please email us at coderdojoathenry@gmail.com.

For the Explorers, here is the link for the Teams Meeting: Click here to join the meeting. You can see some of the Explorers’ work by logging into their Scratch account using the username: AthenryExplorers and the password: Explorers.

You can join Oliver and the Advancers here: Click here to join the meeting. You can also see some of the Advancers’ work by logging into their Scratch account with username: AthenryAdvancers and  password: Advancers.

You will find the, some code and images for the Bodgers group on Dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jkb5k6vjhq98tmw/AABos27jqjrT72HD5G_o7ilNa?dl=0 and here is my meeting link: Click here to join the meeting.

You can join this week’s Modellers session by following this link: Click here to join the meeting.

The Hackers group for older Ninjas is continuing this week with Michael and Kevin, you can join their meeting here: Click here to join the meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Declan and the CoderDojo Athenry Mentors.

Advancers – Snake and Magnify Updates

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Snake Updates

The Snake project has changed a little bit from Saturday. I had to add another Sprite to get the “touching colour” code to work. So now there are 3 Sprites that move around.

  1. The one that you move around with the Arrow keys.
  2. One that follows 0.2 seconds behind, this one now draws the tail and is not touching the first one.
  3. This one follows 2 seconds behind and erases the tail.

I also changed the first Sprite to Move “2” steps not one, this speeds it up a little. I have uploaded the completed project to the AthenryAdvancers account on http://www.scratch.mit.edu so you can take a look and have a go.

My challenge to you is to beat my high score of 1200

Magnify Updates

I have uploaded a Gravity project with one single Sprite to the AthenryAdvancers account on http://www.scratch.mit.edu.

You can use this Template project to create your own Magnify project, think of an idea and draw out the Sprites you will need on a bit of paper, give the Sprites Names on this bit of paper, it doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, any rough old picture will do.

Then you need to get one Image for each of your Sprites, save them all to the same Folder on your Computer.

Once you have your diagram and all your images you can download a copy of the Magnify Project and save it to the same folder as all the images.

The steps (process) to follow to use this Project are:

  1. Rename the StartSprite to the Level 1 Sprite in your diagram
  2. Update the Variables, for this one you only need to update the MyName variable
  3. Change the Costume by uploading your image for this Sprite, delete the original costume

And then to add More Levels and Sprites use these steps:

  1. Copy the Level 1 Sprite
  2. Update the new Sprites name
  3. Update the new Sprites variables, the MyParent needs to match the MyName of the Sprite from the level above
  4. Update the MyX and MyY variables to where you want this Sprite to appear on the screen, you may have to test a few different places to get it right
  5. Change the Costume by uploading your image for this Sprite, delete the original costume

Don’t forget to Save and Test often.

http://www.scratch.mit.edu

To access the Scratch website use the following details:

Username : athenryadvancers
Password : Advancers

Modelers – Free-for-All Modelling – Week 12

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This week we did things differently and had a free-for-all session where we all built items to put into a collectively sitting room. We shared some 3D scanned humans to allow for proper scaling of items in our world. The screenshot below shows “Bettina” sitting on an ottoman in my pretty empty room waiting for everyone else’s creations to arrive. We’ll continue this next week.

Here’s a link to the folder where we store all our files . You’ll find a new file in there called Sitting Room.blend, containing everything I made this week.

Modelers – Coin Pile Part 3 – Week 8

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This week we finished our animation by texturing the plane to look like a tabletop and adding a background image of a desert island.

We also saw how to add an add-on to Blender, namely Lily Surface Scraper.

Here are the video instructions:

Here’s a link to the finished animation:

Here’s a link to the folder where we store all our files . You’ll find a new file in there called dubloon_wip3.blend, containing everything we did this week.