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#1 2013-01-30 13:46:15
no script will play
HI, I'm new and following the very first tutorial. If I drag the "move 10 steps" control to the stage and click it, the toon take one step. If I add the play drum as the tutorial says, I hear one drumbeat and take one step. Changing the number of steps, adding more commands to go fwd and back, putting them in a repeat forever loop and adding when green flag clicked command... nada.
Tried all kinds of things, but basically, I get no continued motion. Since this is my very first try with Scratch, I'm kinda stuck. I can see how it's supposed to work and think it's cool but I'm frustrated that I can't do anything. I'm hoping I have some setting wrong or a program that is in conflict and that there's a fix that will let me play. Right now it is a total dud for me. Thx. Susdi on a Mac OSX
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#3 2013-01-30 18:00:43
Re: no script will play
Thanks for replying iaoumeur but I'm still stuck. The forever command shouldn't be the ONLY way I can get the scratch to play.
According to the tutorial, if I drag this onto the stage, and click it, I should go 10 steps. Right?
move [10] stepsThat's what the tutorial says should happen. Instead, I take one step.
If I do what you say, I can get it to move to the end forever, but if I add another command the way the tutorial says, nothing happens when I click the green flag, nothing happens when I click the scratchblocks, nothing happens.
when gf clicked forever move [10] steps move [-10] stepsAm I missing something?
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#6 2013-01-30 18:38:56
Re: no script will play
oh, and you can put pauses between the steps with a wait block, or you can change costumes on your sprite like a flip book to create animation...like a picture with a leg up and another with the leg down...then if you switch between them it will look like animation. There are samples like a bat flapping wings and stuff...try one out...
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#7 2013-01-30 18:46:46
Re: no script will play
susdi wrote:
Thanks for replying iaoumeur but I'm still stuck. The forever command shouldn't be the ONLY way I can get the scratch to play.
According to the tutorial, if I drag this onto the stage, and click it, I should go 10 steps. Right?move [10] stepsThat's what the tutorial says should happen. Instead, I take one step.
If I do what you say, I can get it to move to the end forever, but if I add another command the way the tutorial says, nothing happens when I click the green flag, nothing happens when I click the scratchblocks, nothing happens.when gf clicked forever move [10] steps move [-10] stepsAm I missing something?
"move 10 steps" plus "move -10 steps" equals "do nothing".
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#8 2013-01-30 18:52:59
Re: no script will play
Figured I'd give my 2 cents as well.
Steps are a measure of distance rather than how many times it moves.
move [10] stepsThis block moves you character once a distance of 10 steps.
move [10] steps move [-10] stepsBy putting this you are saying "Move once 10 steps then move once -10 steps". This is the same as 0 steps and will not be a visible movement unless you have a pause between the blocks such as
wait [0.5] secs
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