We all used to do it, and some of us still do it now. I'm talking about movement, and how to make it look smooth. Many of you have seen (or made) projects where you press and hold a key to move, but the movement is in little chunks:

when [Up Arrow] key pressed

move (10) steps

This means the sprite can move, but it kinda goes forward, wait, forward, wait.
I have a solution to this:

when green flag clicked

forever
if <key [Up Arrow] pressed?> then
move (10) steps
end
end

This means that when you press the key, it will move and not stop until you let go of the key. It makes the movement much smoother!

I hope this helped you!

Scratch on everyone!

A: This in the the wrong forum

B: Use this instead

when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [up arrow v] pressed?> then
change y by (10)

end
end

Neither of these is particularly new though!

deck26 wrote:

Neither of these is particularly new though!

Yes but I've seen many projects like that and I'm just trying to let people know that this is the better way to do it.

Smooth moving:

when gf clicked
forever
 go to x: (((x) / (2)) + ((x position) / (2))) y: (((y) / (2)) + ((y position) / (2)))
end

if you want to move it, use the variables instantead of “go to x, y” or “change x/y”:

when gf clicked
forever
if <key [left arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [x v] by (-5)
end
if <key [right arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [x v] by (5)
end
if <key [up arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [y v] by (5)
end
if <key [down arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [y v] by (-5)
end
end

JavierR100 wrote:

Smooth moving:

when gf clicked
forever
 go to x: (((x) / (2)) + ((x position) / (2))) y: (((y) / (2)) + ((y position) / (2)))
end

if you want to move it, use the variables instantead of “go to x, y” or “change x/y”:

when gf clicked
forever
if <key [left arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [x v] by (-5)
end
if <key [right arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [x v] by (5)
end
if <key [up arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [y v] by (5)
end
if <key [down arrow v] pressed?> then
 change [y v] by (-5)
end
end

Oh thanks! I never even knew that was a thing! I'll use that instead

Hello to make sprites move smoothly without stoping is

when [ v] key pressed
repeat until <not <>><key [ v] pressed?>

change y by (6)

or

change x by (6)

The number needs to be 6 to make it run smoothly