Scratch

Well, when ever i restart scratch, it rearranges my sprites, and resets my variable locations... Not only that, but it also causes some of my perfectly good scripts not to work... should i reinstall? Or post it as a beta and see if it works here?

Thanks for responding,

Regards,

CAA14

Hi,

What i mean by "scripts rearranging" is that in the sprite selection menu(Bottom Right), each time i reopen scratch and my project, they are in a different order.

I'm glad you've never had that problem... It's very frustrating. 
Thanks again,

Regards,

CAA14

and CAA, could you upload that game to the scratch website so that I can try and see what's wrong?

CAA14 wrote:

Hi,

What i mean by "scripts rearranging" is that in the sprite selection menu(Bottom Right), each time i reopen scratch and my project, they are in a different order.

I'm glad you've never had that problem... It's very frustrating. 
Thanks again,

Regards,

CAA14

Well if you're scripts aren't working, then it might be a problem with the code itself. Could you post your code or your project?

Also, you might be interested to here this, but in Scratch 2.0, there'll be a new block that'll let you move variables wherever you want.

Now, as for your sprites being re-positioned, this shouldn't be happening. Re-installing Scratch might help, though I'm not 100% sure as I've never heard of this before, and it's never occurred to me. If that fails, then you could always put a [go to x: () y: ()] block in each sprite to move it to its correct position at the beginning of each project run.

Last edited by ErnieParke (2013-01-20 14:00:38)

Hi,

Thanks again, Ernie.
There are certain scripts that i know are working that will randomly not work, with nothing changed from when they did work.
Also, i had to do the go to thing. 
And, what i really meant by "rearranging my sprites" was that the menu in the bottom right would rearrange my sprites, the menu that shows you all the sprites you have in your project.

Regards,

CAA14

Hi,

I just posted a beta version.

Search, "Target Practice (Beta)" and you should find it.

Please help if you can.

Regards,

CAA14

CAA14 wrote:

Hi,

I just posted a beta version.

Search, "Target Practice (Beta)" and you should find it.

Please help if you can.

Regards,

CAA14

Well three things:

1). This is just a tip; if you ever don't want to use Scratch's built in varibale viewer, you could always make your own. Just ask if you'd like to hear more.

2). Aren't the targets supposed to hide whenever you shoot them?

3). In your Crosshair sprite, you have several scripts that look like this:

when gf clicked
forever if <(color [#000000] is touching [Color...]?) and (mouse down?)>
 change [score v] by ((score) + (orange points))
 wait (1) secs

when gf clicked
forever if <(color [#000000] is touching [Color...]?) and (mouse down?)>
 change [score v] by (orange points)//So score won't double.
 wait (1) secs//Optional addition of a "reload".
 wait until <not (mouse down?)>//More realistic.

Last edited by ErnieParke (2013-01-20 14:47:27)

Also, The block is not covering all targets.

Regards,

CAA14

CAA14 wrote:

Hi,

Thank you! I can't believe i did not see the doubling thing, how stupid!

Okay, the other problems are that the "block" sprite and "multiplier" sprite are supposed to disappear when "level_End?" is "yes", but the multiplier does not.

Thank you so much, and sorry about the bone headed scripts.

Regards,

CAA14

Well it's okay; I was just like this when I started out with Scratch. 

Anyway, the reason why your multiplier isn't stopping/hiding whenever a level finishes is because when it enters its loop to fly around, nothing is making it get out of that loop when the level finishes, and nothing is preventing it from showing when it shouldn't. So, instead, you could try turning the show blocks into this:

if <(level_End?) = [yes]>
 hide
 stop script
else
 show
end

when I receive [level1_Start v]
if <(level_End?) = [yes]>
 stop script
else
 repeat (times_to_fly)
  Script...
 end
end

when I receive [level1_Start v]
repeat (times_to_fly)
 if <(level_End?) = [yes]>
  stop script
 else
  Script...
 end
end

Last edited by ErnieParke (2013-01-20 15:10:22)

CAA14 wrote:

and, once i get this project finished, I'd love to hear how to make my own variable viewer.

CAA14

P.S. Over all, how was my first project? 

Great and fun! I think that you could really work on making it more compact in general and more resourceful when it comes to variables, though you did a nice job!

Now, about the variable viewer, first what you'll have to do is create a sprite with costumes of the numbers 0~9, with 0 being the first costume, 1 being the second costume, ect... Then, just repeat that till you have as many as you need. Finally, make it turn into whatever costume you need. Here are some samples:

Note: This is a sample script of the ones place.

when gf clicked
forever
 switch to costume (letter (length of (Score)) of (Score))

when gf clicked
forever
 if <not <(Score) < (10)>>
  switch to costume (letter ((length of (Score)) - (1)) of (Score))
 else
  switch to costume [0 v]
 end

Last edited by ErnieParke (2013-01-20 15:27:23)

I tried the score thing, and it didn't work...

maybe i did it wrong, i made a new sprite with 10 costumes, 0-9, and then put those two scripts that you told me about in it.

CAA14

Ok, thanks,

I'll upload a beta #2 now.

I will forget about the score display until i get the layers working.

Thanks,

CAA14