Help! Why isn't "touching _" in Sensing working?

pandacupcake234

Hi, I'm making a project that requires me to use “touching _” in Sensing. But it won't work! The character touches the sprite it needs to use “touching _” on but it won't budge. It has worked all the time in past situations but for some reason, it won't now!

drmcw

If you share your project or type out the script you are trying then it'd help us help you.

The touching block doesn't make a sprite budge or move, it just returns a true or false value that you can use to move a sprite, such as;

if touching sprite1 then
move 10 steps

Themousinator

I'm having similar problems with touching. I've made a code that when a sprite touches a certain other sprite there should be a costume change, when the character is driven to the other sprite nothing happens when they touch.

Themousinator

Sorry two seconds later I'd worked out. I hadn't put it in a loop.hehe.

syfydude

It hasn't worked for me either,but I figured it out, can you tell me specifects about the problem,like what blocks are included?

p.s. yes I'm new,I like programming,also need people to ask questions.

SoccerRocker222

i'm having problems with the sensing color block. i have used it A TON but it always works. except for now. i am clearly clicking on yellow so it will say if touching yellow then change y by -10. but the color that appears is black!! is this a glitch or what????

ThatRandomCow

pandacupcake234 wrote:
Hi, I'm making a project that requires me to use “touching _” in Sensing. But it won't work! The character touches the sprite it needs to use “touching _” on but it won't budge. It has worked all the time in past situations but for some reason, it won't now!

Me too! I'm making a maze game and when i touch a wall of a specific color my sprite is supposed to go back to the start.

<touching color [#ff0088] ?>
go to x: () y: (0)

help!!

74violet

Hello it's me 74violet two of my games aren't working but SCRATCH IS NOT

I downloaded it and it said we're having proplems

do you want to press to get away scratch I clicked no please tell me if you know

when green flag clicked
move () steps

ChaoticParadise

guys this is a forum for helping people, if you have nothing productive and helpful to say try to not say it.

blazer222

when green flag clicked
if <touching [ sprite1] ?> then
change [ heath] by (-1)

    
end

and it won't work!!!!!!! what is wrong!!!!!!!

Last edited by blazer222 (Oct. 20, 2014 00:56:52)

AwesomeFaceXD

blazer222 wrote:

when green flag clicked
if <touching [ sprite1] ?> then
change [ heath] by (-1)

    
end

and it won't work!!!!!!! what is wrong!!!!!!

AwesomeFaceXD Wrote

Try this [blazer222]


when green flag clicked
forever
    
repeat (1)
    
if <touching [sprite1 v] ?> then
    
change [health v] by (-1)
go to x: (the start) y: (of game or level)
end

end

end

The reason being is that when you press the green flag (on your example) it will only detect for one pulse where on my example it will forever repeat. Hope this helps!

Last edited by AwesomeFaceXD (Oct. 20, 2014 09:52:23)

jams41

my sprite goes back to the start of the game when it touches purple and yellow, but not red.

Bright_Eyes

SoccerRocker222 wrote:
i'm having problems with the sensing color block. i have used it A TON but it always works. except for now. i am clearly clicking on yellow so it will say if touching yellow then change y by -10. but the color that appears is black!! is this a glitch or what????

Gah! It happens to me, too! But it happens because

the “if” script needs a forever around it.

Why did I never think of that before? I thought it didn't need a forever, but no!!!!! WOWIE!!!!!! I was just testing something.

set [ WOWIE!!!!!] to [kewl]

Bright_Eyes

jams41 wrote:
my sprite goes back to the start of the game when it touches purple and yellow, but not red.

Wow. I guess you guys don't really have problems with scripting then after all. It is just a bug.

NOT WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!!!! sometimes i can be wrong.

E-cool_creator

pandacupcake234 wrote:
Hi, I'm making a project that requires me to use “touching _” in Sensing. But it won't work! The character touches the sprite it needs to use “touching _” on but it won't budge. It has worked all the time in past situations but for some reason, it won't now!

I am making a project that also uses the sensing. It reads: if touching sprite__ then do the following. It won't work!

qinkeer

If it's touching color, then you need to select a color by getting your mouse-pointer to the color you want. If it's touching ___ then you have to select a sprite, the edge, or the mouse-pointer.

ScaleneParkour

You might be doing this!

when green flag clicked
if <touching [ Something] ?> then
    
end

Instead try this

when green flag clicked
forever
    
if <touching [ Something] ?> then
    
end

end

8BitKawaii

I have the problem with touching colours.

when backdrop switches to [ v]
forever
    
if <touching color [#ff0088] ?> then
go to [ v]
    
end

end

8BitKawaii

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY SCRIPT (I FORGOT TO ADD THIS)

Daphne_456456-Minec

If you need help with this:

<touching color [#ff0088] ?>

then you should see this: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/69975458/

If you need help with this:

<touching [ v] ?>

then you choose a sprite, edge, or the mouse-pointer. If you're doing the right thing and it isn't working, I don't know…

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