Scratch

ImagineIt wrote:

It works better with 460 to me.

It shouldn't - Scratch screens are 480 pixels wide. Thus 480 is the optimal screen size. Anything less than that, and the screens will overlap eachother; anything more than that, you'll get large gaps between them.

ImagineIt wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

ImagineIt wrote:

It works better with 460 to me.

It shouldn't - Scratch screens are 480 pixels wide. Thus 480 is the optimal screen size. Anything less than that, and the screens will overlap eachother; anything more than that, you'll get large gaps between them.

yeah, but sometimes they don't go to 481 or -481.

Ah, yes! It should be 240, then.

I still like 460.

If you use a specific position to decide when to hide, you have to experiment, because it will depend on the sprite's size.  (Character sprites that go off-screen have to hide too.) 

I use this technique;  set a variable (CommandX) to where the sprite needs to go, then "Set X to (CommandX)".  Then check the absolute value of the difference between CommandX and Xposition;  If this is greater than 1, the sprite couldn't go where you told it to go and should hide, else it is still on screen and should show.

I'd say that this "complicated way" pays off - It's really not that much (two variables); and once you make the script in one sprite, you just drop it into the others - and it works whether the sprite is a small bullet or a big landscape.  If you look at the enemy sprites in AsteroidBattle, you'll see that they are all identical except for the two variables (angle and radius) that specify their "World Location".

To each his own, I suppose, but if you use a specific number, and get it working, then change the sprite's costume, the hiding might stop working correctly - I know, because I've been there and done that...

JJROCKER wrote:

At first, I thought you meant you want to make a terrain invisible    in that case, make it and make it 99.999 ghost effect 

Make it and make it?