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Animation blocks ยท Beginner

Animation blocks

Create smooth visual movement. Animation blocks tween properties, pulse sprites and add shake without making you write requestAnimationFrame code.

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What Animation is for

Animation blocks tween properties, pulse sprites and add shake without making you write requestAnimationFrame code.

The built-in Animation category starts with 3 core block shapes and is expanded by the larger generated catalog, so you can learn a small vocabulary before exploring specialized variants.

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Core blocks you will see

These names come from the current RC Blocks Studio catalog. Start with the first two or three and ignore the rest until your project needs them.

blocksanimate property to value seconds
pulse scale percent seconds
shake amount seconds
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Try this tiny recipe

Build the smallest possible experiment so you can see what this category changes.

1

Start with a short tween or pulse.

2

Run it from Green Flag.

3

Combine with Looks instead of stacking many instant size changes.

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How it becomes a real game

When the project is materialized, supported Animation opcodes are compiled into the generated browser runtime rather than remaining visual-only editor decorations.

That means the same block idea can affect the full RC project when you Save and Run project.

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