Need help on Restraunt sim!

RavenRylee

Ok, so I have the dragging function. But, when I drag my Apple onto my knife, it’s supposed to switch its costume to cut. For some reason, it’s not working! Here’s the script:

when I receive [ tutorial]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
if <touching [ knife] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [ cut]
end

Can someone help?

Last edited by RavenRylee (March 28, 2025 21:30:50)

joe1718

Can you share the projects link temporarily?

joe1718

Oh I know what happened. You need to put a forever loop outside the if statement.

when I receive [tutorial v]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
forever
if <touching [knife v] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [cut v]
end
end

You need the forever loop so that it senses if the apple is cut forever.

Last edited by joe1718 (March 28, 2025 22:11:28)

geramihasfood

RavenRylee wrote:
Ok, so I have the dragging function. But, when I drag my Apple onto my knife, it’s supposed to switch its costume to cut. For some reason, it’s not working! Here’s the script:
when I receive [ tutorial]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
if <touching [ knife] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [ cut]
end
Can someone help?

I think you need to implement a ‘wait until’ block because when the message ‘tutorial’ is received, the sprite only checks for a bit before finishing the message. The ‘wait until’ block would make it so that the sprite waited until the sprite would touch the sprite. Unless I understood it incorrectly, I'd change the code to this:

when I receive [tutorial v]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
wait until <touching (knife v) ?>
if <touching (knife v) ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to (cut v)
end

I hope this helps you out.

joe1718

But I forgot to mention that you need to separate the forever loop and so on with a green flag clicked. Like this:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <touching [knife v] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [cut v]
end
end

joe1718

geramihasfood wrote:
RavenRylee wrote:
Ok, so I have the dragging function. But, when I drag my Apple onto my knife, it’s supposed to switch its costume to cut. For some reason, it’s not working! Here’s the script:
when I receive [ tutorial]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
if <touching [ knife] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [ cut]
end
Can someone help?
I think you need to implement a ‘wait until’ block because when the message ‘tutorial’ is received, the sprite only checks for a bit before finishing the message. The ‘wait until’ block would make it so that the sprite waited until the sprite would touch the sprite. Unless I understood it incorrectly, I'd change the code to this:
when I receive [tutorial v]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
wait until <touching (knife v) ?>
if <touching (knife v) ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to (cut v)
end
I hope this helps you out.

I think that could work too

RavenRylee

Idk why, but neither worked? I tried both ways! Here’s the link so you can check it out! I only shared it js so y’all could get in. Also, I’m working on the tut/tutorial so the play button won’t work. I hope this link helps!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1154273095

geramihasfood

RavenRylee wrote:
Idk why, but neither worked? I tried both ways! Here’s the link so you can check it out! I only shared it js so y’all could get in. Also, I’m working on the tut/tutorial so the play button won’t work. I hope this link helps!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1154273095

It works perfectly fine for me.

RavenRylee

Do you mean in my project or in a project you made to test?

joe1718

I made the project work when I remixed it. You can backpack the scripts included which are in the apple sprite. Tell me when you got it so I can unshare that project.

RavenRylee

Thanks for the project! I made sure to add you to credits! I’m done!

joe1718

That's great! Thank you!

Rival8347U

RavenRylee wrote:
Ok, so I have the dragging function. But, when I drag my Apple onto my knife, it’s supposed to switch its costume to cut. For some reason, it’s not working! Here’s the script:
when I receive [ tutorial]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
if <touching [ knife] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [ cut]
Can someone help?

when I receive [ tutorial]
show
go to x: (-189) y: (119)
forever

if <touching [ knife] ?> then
wait (0.5) secs
switch costume to [ cut]
end

Last edited by Rival8347U (March 29, 2025 05:12:54)

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