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I think that stretch will not interfere with size this time, because I believe flash is less limited than squeak

I don't think there ever was a stretch effect on Scratch.

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

I don't think there ever was a stretch effect on Scratch.

About 5 years ago there was.

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

I don't think there ever was a stretch effect on Scratch.

It is now this is 2.0.

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This is 1.4.

change stretch by (10)

I was thinking something like this

set [left v] stretch to ()%::looks

set [right v] stretch to ()%::looks

set [top v] stretch to ()%::looks

set [bottom v] stretch to ()%::looks

this would stretch a single side, and smoothly unstretched as it gets to the other side of the sprite. You could recreate your version by stretching two opposite sides.

Edit: I made a project showcasing how it would work. The block, of course, would have more granularity.
https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/391961640/

Scratch's rendering engine supports stretching, I think. It has a side effect of flipping the sprite for a negative stretch value, which is pretty cool

Full Support!

There actually WAS a stretch block, in the March 2005 beta of scratch!
*Get ready for the original color of the effects section*

change stretch by (10) % :: #ff2400

Yup! the color of the effects section was red originally!

Support.

And yes, I understand that there is another topic where people are talking about having a rich, fully-developed set of commands and features that would change various dimensions of a sprite but this topic should not be considered a duplicate. Its just focused on bringing back the two historical Stretch blocks.

Which already exists in Scratch 3.0. There are place holders for the set stretch and change stretch blocks in Scratch 3.0. (Visible in this project https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/508511932/

Also, the rendering engine of Scratch 3.0 can already stretch sprites. (See Sheep_maker’s post from above).

It should not take that much Scratch Team discussion or development team effort to re-enable the two stretch blocks and I don’t believe doing that would in any way close the door to someday having an Scratch extension with the full set of dimension altering blocks that have been suggested in other topics.

Giving us back these historical blocks would introduce a fun block for beginners to tinker with and use creatively.

It’s this high tinkering-around-with value that makes me reject the counter argument that people could just make a load of costumes for their projects.

Scratch is about cultivating creativity not producing skilled graphic artists. I tried making a set of costumes in a 3.0 project to simulate something that I had enjoyed making while tinkering with the stretch block. It was not fun to make these costumes in the paint editor and it did not turn out well.

Please Scratch Team, re-enable the historical stretch blocks.

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they still talking about how they're still on flash lol, 2014 moment

I see no problem with bringing this back, other than that you can do this manually in the costume editor. Anyway, support

they should bring the block back.

I need to make a correction. In a project that I mentioned above I said you could see the stretch block in action if you downloaded its Scratch 1.4 version and if you also had the Scratch 1.4 application.

However, it's no longer possible to download older versions of projects, so, I modified my project to use costumes instead of the stretch block. It was ugly work to make the costumes. After about 1000 mouse clicks and movements I ended up with the 40 or so costumes used by the project. And so the project works but pretty much unchangeable since I'm not doing that graphic work over again.

If we had an actual Stretch block I think beginners would tinker with it in their “animate a name” projects. People would use it to grow trees, or make the hungry fish get longer instead of just bigger, or make a platformer project, or combine it with other effects by just tinkering and then seeing what they can make.

My “platformer project with a stretch block” is here https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/508511932/

Bump and support
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