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#1 2013-01-29 20:00:36
Can't get tutorial to play
HI, I'm new and following the very first tutorial. I have moves and sounds but nothing plays. If I drag the "move 10 steps" control to the stage and click it, I take one step. If I add the play drum as the tutorial says, I hear one drumbeat and take one step.
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 and that enabling it will let me play. Thx. Susdi on a Mac OSX
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#2 2013-01-30 00:55:13
- bluecat600
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Re: Can't get tutorial to play
This goes in Help With Scripts.
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#4 2013-01-30 13:41:52
Re: Can't get tutorial to play
thx bluecat- Since I'm new, and couldn't even get to step one, I don't even know the correct terms fro my problem. I will try help with scripts.
And snowdrift, I tried the when green flag clicked command. I tried repeat forever. I get nothing- when I click on the script block, when I click the green flag... must be some program conflict or setting. Thanks anyway.
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#6 2013-03-09 09:54:13
- obrien_887454
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Re: Can't get tutorial to play
We're having the same problem. We've wrapped our 10 steps and drums in the forever block and have the when flag clicked at the top. But the cat only takes 1 step, the drum beats once, cat steps back once, and then it repeats forever.
We even tried changing the number of steps to 5. The cat's motion is the same.
No ideas if it's a bug or conflict, or setting as susdi suggests?
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#7 2013-03-09 11:17:23
- Gravitation
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Re: Can't get tutorial to play
obrien_887454 wrote:
We're having the same problem. We've wrapped our 10 steps and drums in the forever block and have the when flag clicked at the top. But the cat only takes 1 step, the drum beats once, cat steps back once, and then it repeats forever.
We even tried changing the number of steps to 5. The cat's motion is the same.
No ideas if it's a bug or conflict, or setting as susdi suggests?
"Step" is just Scratch's term for "pixel"; if you look closely at your screen, you'll see it's a bunch of little squares. One of those squares is a pixel. So "move 10 steps" means "move 10 pixels in the direction that I am facing". If you put it to 5, the distance will only be half as much.
There will be no animation with this motion, since computers don't know what legs are, Scratch doesn't run in 3D, no pre-programmed animation, and even so, it is impossible for any computer ever made to compensate for the fact that the costume can change at any given moment. 
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