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How To Make A Sprite Follow Your Mouse

Dear New Scratchers,
Welcome to the first issue post of the Beginner's Guide! It's been a great pleasure to type and show everyone (especially the new) handy, easy and simple tricks which are highly effective.  I remeber when I was  new to Scratch, and had no idea how to program, even the basic things. I would get confused when I clicked on the stage and realised that I had no scripts, when I thought there was just one long script. So let me guide all of you, even if you are not new, to creating simple scripts! So for the first tutorial, I am going to show you how to program a basic script, which can make a certain sprite(s), trail and follow your mouse! I hope my information will be of use to you! Let's begin. A basic, and example of this can be seen Here.

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Short Script For Something To Follow Your Mouse

Ok - Let's start by showing you a script to make something follow your mouse.

when gf clicked
forever
 go to [mouse-pointer v]

As you can see, this is a very short script, which is not complex at all! But I have seen many people posting on the Help with Scripts forum who have had some trouble with working out how to make something follow your mouse.

Here is another example of a type of mouse-following.

when gf clicked
forever
go to x:<mouse y> y:<mouse x> // This is where you swap mouse values.

What Is Mouse Values?
Mouse values are when your mouse is in a position, but the sprite following your mouse, is in another position, for example in This Project. It is like being in an opposite position to your mouse.

That's All For This Week!
WEEK ONE COMPLETE! *YAY*