In scratch I can make a sprite move but I can't get the legs to move! My sprite just glides!
can someone help me!!!!!!

Sprites won't animate themselves. If you want a sprite to animate like it is walking or something, you have to draw multiple costumes for it and then use the “next costume” block in your code.

The standard Cat sprite has 2 frames that you can experiment with:

When GF Clicked
forever
move 2
next costume
wait .2

This will make it look like he is walking across the screen.

You need to change the costume. If you use the scratch cat then it should have two costumes that look like the legs are moving when you put a next costume inside a forever block. You'll also need to add a wait statement to slow things down, unless you're going for the roadrunner look! If you then add a move statement to the next costume then the sprite should move and look like the legs are moving too.

Here is an example that uses a timer to decide when to change the costume. It gives you a smoother animation. It also has the Cat holding some different weapons, so it demos a few different things.

Timer based animation

sky-fly wrote:

In scratch I can make a sprite move but I can't get the legs to move! My sprite just glides!
can someone help me!!!!!!

That's gonna be hard, but first draw the leg movements, and then follow this script.

Instead of a timer, I use a variable that counts up by 1 but only when the sprite moves. Once it gets above a certain number, the sprite switches to the next costume and the variable resets to 1. The benefit of this technique is that your costume changes according to how much the sprite moves, which can be more realistic than using a timer. Really it depends on how complex your game is.
Adjusting the amount the variable resets at will speed up or slow down how fast the sprite appears to walk.

Your post reminded me of an old project I made but never shared till now. This may or may not seem a little advanced but the theory is great to know for anyone drawing their sprites, something I highly recommend when feasible.

Coincidentally, I used wait blocks here to make the costumes change at the correct speed. Since there is nothing else going on in this project, that works fine. But in a big, complex game which will have varying amounts of things happening at any given moment the player is walking around, I'd go with the method I mentioned in my previous post.

Well first you have to animate your sprite, so you will have costumes to replace.
Then go to the scripts and try using that code:

But what if you have multiple costumes for one sprite? Like, ones that aren't for walking, like equipping an item. Also, my sprite won't turn around when i tell it to turn 90 degrees left instead of right.

Kitsune-chan543 wrote:

But what if you have multiple costumes for one sprite? Like, ones that aren't for walking, like equipping an item. Also, my sprite won't turn around when i tell it to turn 90 degrees left instead of right.

Please don't necropost. I suggest using the

block.

Here is one way! Possibly the Best Way Ever!

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