Looks Blocks

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Looks is one of the ten categories of Scratch blocks. They are color-coded purple, and are used to control a Sprite's appearance.

There are currently 20 Looks blocks: 17 Stack blocks and 3 Reporter blocks. 14 are only for sprites, and 4 are only for the stage.

Blocks

Note:

Click on a block to learn out more about it.

Scratch 3.0 contains the following 17 Looks stack blocks:

• say [] for () seconds
• say []
• think [] for () seconds
• think []

• switch costume to ( v)
• next costume
• switch backdrop to ( v)
• next backdrop
• switch backdrop to ( v) and wait

• change size by ()
• set size to ()%

• change [ v] effect by ()
• set [ v] effect to ()
• clear graphic effects

• show
• hide

• go to [ v] layer
• go [ v] () layers

Scratch 3.0 contains the following 3 Looks reporter blocks:

• (costume [ v])
• (backdrop [ v])
• (size)

History

This article or section documents something not included in the current version of Scratch (3.0). It is only useful from a historical perspective.

There were 5 blocks in Scratch 2.0 which were removed in favor of newer blocks in Scratch 3.0.

There are 2 Looks stack blocks which were removed in Scratch 3.0:

• go to front
• go back () layers

There are 3 Looks reporter blocks which were removed in Scratch 3.0:

• (costume #)
• (backdrop name)
• (backdrop #)

Before Scratch 3.0, the following block was stage only:

next backdrop