Scratch

Thanks.
Well thats what i figured the answere would be. This is my first game i have ever made on scratch so yes my game has alot of unneccasery scripts. the problem is that if i deleate some scripts that might seem useless at one specific point in the game something bad will happen like an enemy wont hide or something. I will try to clean it up but to be honest i might just end up making another glitch xD.  Thanks for answereing. now i got too look through all 70!! of my sprites and check if all 632 of my scripts are needed. 

I think what Luke121 meant by "combining scripts" is that if you have two scripts like this...

when gf clicked
forever
  do (something)
end
when gf clicked
forever
  do (something else)
end

...you can combine them to make this:

when gf clicked
forever
  do (something)
  do (something else)
end

The second example is more efficient.  As you know (you said your project had 630 scripts) Scratch supports what is called "multi-tasking," where a project can run multiple scripts "at the same time" (they don't actually run at the same time, but here's not the place for explaining that).  This is great, because you can have two independent actions going on.  However, it takes more time for Scratch to go once through 100 forever loops containing one block each than it does to go once through one forever loop containing 100 blocks. 

It's also considered good programming practice to combine similar sections of code to make the code easier to read.

Last edited by amcerbu (2012-04-04 19:01:18)

Yeah, you'll need to clean up that mess.

Harakou wrote:

amcerbu wrote:

I think what Luke121 meant by "combining scripts" is that if you have two scripts like this...

when gf clicked
forever
  do (something)
end
when gf clicked
forever
  do (something else)
end

...you can combine them to make this:

when gf clicked
forever
  do (something)
  do (something else)
end

The second example is more efficient.  As you know (you said your project had 630 scripts) Scratch supports what is called "multi-tasking," where a project can run multiple scripts "at the same time" (they don't actually run at the same time, but here's not the place for explaining that).  This is great, because you can have two independent actions going on.  However, it takes more time for Scratch to go once through 100 forever loops containing one block each than it does to go once through one forever loop containing 100 blocks. 

It's also considered good programming practice to combine similar sections of code to make the code easier to read.

Exactly. If you can, it's a good idea to combine scripts that start with the same signal; for example, you can combine all of your green-flag scripts for one sprite into one to neaten things up and improve performance as amcerbu did. When you're starting out you're still learning the basics and so your scripts won't be perfect, but the more you practice the better you'll get. 

If you have a bunch of scripts that you want to have running at the same time, put ones with wait blocks each in their own script (unlike what they both said).