is using the say blocks unproffesional?

Striker445

I meant these say blocks:

say [] for (2) secs
say []

So I've seen lots of animations, and all of them use text to speech or voice acting. No animtion uses the say block. Only I make them, and big scratchers don't use that at all. Small scratchers do tho.

I hope you get my point.

GoboThePlant

Not generally.

mtech22

is scratch professional?
in a way, yes. they don't really fit in if you drew something nice and use this, its not going to fit in well.

han614698

You mean like what TalksInBlocks does?
It's fully aloud, I actually got an alert for it…
What the heck? Apparently an image hosted on assets isn't a good image URL. Anyway, here's the image of the alert I got.
Here's a quote from Paddle2See on the topic:

Paddle2See wrote:
We get a lot of inexperienced computer users on Scratch - which is natural as our site and our computer language is designed specifically to be easy for beginners to use. We also want Scratch to be as friendly and welcoming as possible - and to celebrate the creativity that Scratch enables! So, for these reasons, we decided a while back to not worry so much if Scratchers want to use Scratchblocks to format their text. We see it as similar to BB coding with colors and fonts - or creative use of capitalization.

The important thing is to be friendly and helpful on the forums. We don't need more restrictions that somebody will need to enforce. Thanks for your understanding.

(src)

mtech22

han614698 wrote:
-snip-

I don't think that's what they meant

-ShadowOfTheFuture-

Not always, but they often clash with your project's overall style, which makes the project look less clean. The text boxes don't give you much customizability, and if the rest of your project doesn't work well with them, they'll stand out.

That's also why many people choose custom text engines instead of Scratch's default variable displays. It's a lot harder to mesh an orange box with the rest of a project than a cleaner looking text engine that you can also change much more easily to suit your needs.

Sikecon

Isn't this more of an opinion question?

It's your choice, you don't have to try to look “professional” in scratch - after all, scratch isn't about looking good, it's about Imagining, Programming, and Sharing.

Sikecon

han614698 wrote:
-snippy snip-

i think the OP meant if using the say blocks look unprofessional while making projects, it's not related to the forums at all-

han614698

Sikecon wrote:
han614698 wrote:
-snippy snip-

i think the OP meant if using the say blocks look unprofessional while making projects, it's not related to the forums at all-

Oh sorry…

ninjaMAR

The say blocks aren't bad. Many scratchers don't use it because they feel it lowers the experience of the user running the project.

portalpower

it's as unprofessional as using sprites from the sprite library or using the normal look for variables

D-ScratchNinja

If someone is experienced, then they usually use alternatives like text engines or costumes with text to avoid breaking the theme. Like it wouldn't exactly fit in a game where all of a sudden a Scratch speech bubble would appear when you were previously looking at a pixel art platformer. But sometimes it fits in fine, like if your project doesn't exactly have a theme and you're just using it because it's simple.

mmnagelia

Kinda. I would say it's better to have Text-to-Speech. Gives the user a better connection to the overall animation.

cat_tap_RESHARING

mmnagelia wrote:
Kinda. I would say it's better to have Text-to-Speech. Gives the user a better connection to the overall animation.

text to speech seems worse though tbh xD

While showing just a blank text bubble may look odd, you can make it look more proffesional by coding a text engine right IN the text bubble

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sealifefriend

Not always, and even if it is.. just do it your own way!

CST1229

han614698 wrote:
What the heck? Apparently an image hosted on assets isn't a good image URL.

You have to put “get_image/.%2E/” before the image URL. Apparently Scratch doesn't allow images from assets root.

[img]https://assets.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/.%2E/6bd03309ce293807f792ba233d9bd5b3.png[/img]

becomes

han614698

CST1229 wrote:
han614698 wrote:
What the heck? Apparently an image hosted on assets isn't a good image URL.
You have to put “get_image/.%2E/” before the image URL. Apparently Scratch doesn't allow images from assets root.
[img]https://assets.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/.%2E/6bd03309ce293807f792ba233d9bd5b3.png[/img]
becomes

Interesting…

I just

Right-clicked the Image >> Copy Image Address >> Image button >> Paste >> Okay

mybearworld

han614698 wrote:
CST1229 wrote:
han614698 wrote:
What the heck? Apparently an image hosted on assets isn't a good image URL.
You have to put “get_image/.%2E/” before the image URL. Apparently Scratch doesn't allow images from assets root.
[img]https://assets.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/.%2E/6bd03309ce293807f792ba233d9bd5b3.png[/img]
becomes
Interesting…

I just

Right-clicked the Image >> Copy Image Address >> Image button >> Paste >> Okay

Assets works really weird, if you do that it won't work.
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Well, that depends on your opinion on “proffesional”

Bacteria999

Opinion questions don't fit very well in the forums. I personally think it's a bit lazy, but remember, I'm just a guy behind an LCD screen.

fdreerf

Yes. Animation that has a lot of dialogue but requires the viewer to read the majority of time begins to fall apart and isn't as good compared to voice acting or not having any dialogue at all.

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