Create an animated 3D sprite from scratch

Interactive tutorial: the editor checks each step by itself.

1. Pick a sprite. Open the Costumes tab and click the "3D" button to open the 3D character maker.
2. In "Create a character", choose a type (e.g. Robot) and play with the colors, hair, hat and accessory.
3. Click "Apply to selected" to see the character. It comes with ready animations: idle, walk, run, jump, wave, attack, dance…
4. Save as a 3D character. The sprite becomes a 3D character (shows the "3D" badge).
5. Add the "3D Characters" extension (it's free).
6. In Events, drag "when flag clicked".
7. In the 3D Characters category, snap "animate the 3D character: wave at 8 frames per second".
8. Click the green flag. Your 3D character waves on the stage (the costumes switch by themselves, like an animation)!
9. Challenge: switch to "automatic animation: idle when still and walk when moving" and move the sprite with "change x by 10" on the arrows — it walks with the right animation. (challenge)

The blocks of the finished program

• evt_bandeira
• p3d_animar [CLIPE: acenar, FPS: 8]