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Face to face

Head and shoulders of a large green alien.
Level 1
15 mins

Goal 🎯

Make a character larger than life! Choose your character, change their colours and animation, then make them fill the screen.

Pick your character

  • From Scene, choose Objects and drag an ‘add character’ block under the sky block.
  • Click on the cat image and choose your character.
  • Click on the ‘character1’ dropdown and click ‘Rename variable’.
  • Type a name for your character.

Give them a makeover

  • Click on the hair, skin, eyes, t-shirt, shorts, and detail colour circles to choose your colours.
  • Tip: If you want to use any colour for skin, go to Materials and drag the purple colour circle into your skin colour circle. Then press play.

Animate them

  • From Animate, add a ‘switch animation’ block.
  • Click the Idle dropdown and choose an animation.
  • Press play to see your animation.

Make them giant

  • Click in the ‘scale’ circle in the ‘add character’ block and type ‘7’.
  • Click in the ‘y’ circle and type ‘-10’.
  • Change the numbers until your characters head fills the screen.

Fill your screen

  • Press the full screen icon in the top right of Flock XR.
  • Press the play mode icon in the top right of Flock XR.
  • Watch your character take over your screen!
  • Tip: Press them again to come out of full screen.

Take it further

  • Change the sky colour.
  • Change the ‘x’ circle to move your character left or right.
  • Change your character colours to make them all one colour.

Idea gallery

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