Pen Not Showing Up [Please Help!]

DoUEvenCode

I have a problem with a game I am working on. I am trying to make a puzzle where you have a block that goes through a maze and keeps moving and you can't touch the sides. I want to make the block place down a pen trail so if you go back on your trail you fail as well. The problem is, the trail will not place. I tried putting in the following block:

forever
pen down
end

But it still will not work. My pen size is 10 and the color is bright red. The background is light gray so it should show up. Help!

Scratch-Minion

Need to see the project. If you move a sprite with pen down and color red it should leave a trail!

Some reasons it may not work:
- You have sprites in front of the trail you have drawn (pen is always behind all sprites).
- You clear the pen trail before it is seen.

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totalcode

make sure you haven't got

forever
clear
end

in it

also could you put the entire script up so I could see if anythings wrong

deck26

Are you sure you don't have a sprite in front of the backdrop? Pen marks can only appear on the backdrop.

DoUEvenCode

deck26 wrote:
Are you sure you don't have a sprite in front of the backdrop? Pen marks can only appear on the backdrop.

So if the block is on top of anything except the backdrop it won't work? Okay then. I had it on top of another sprite. Thanks for the help!

deck26

DoUEvenCode wrote:
deck26 wrote:
Are you sure you don't have a sprite in front of the backdrop? Pen marks can only appear on the backdrop.

So if the block is on top of anything except the backdrop it won't work? Okay then. I had it on top of another sprite. Thanks for the help!

All pen commands only work on the backdrop so are behind any sprites. If you stamp an image of the sprite you can use pen over that though.

349273599

my pen section does not exist help me

bluedragon8633

349273599 wrote:
my pen section does not exist help me

Don't necropost

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bluedragon8633 wrote:
349273599 wrote:
my pen section does not exist help me
Don't necropost

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349273599 wrote:
my pen section does not exist help me

if you use scratch 3.0, then go to the extension.

cool_creator101

In my project he sprite is not hiding the pen but still it doesn't show up I have used the following scripts

when green flag clicked
forever
draw trail
define draw trail
pen down
set pen size to (50)
move (50) steps
wait (0.9) secs
set pen color to [#74fc68]
move (-50) steps

And I have used it on a purple background.
Pen colour is bright green and pen size is 50

Last edited by cool_creator101 (Jan. 25, 2022 11:19:33)

awesome-llama

cool_creator101 wrote:
In my project he sprite is not hiding the pen but still it doesn't show up I have used the following scripts
when green flag clicked
forever
draw trail
define draw trail
pen down
set pen size to (50)
move (50) steps
wait (0.9) secs
set pen color to [#74fc68]
move (-50) steps
And I have used it on a purple background.
Pen colour is bright green and pen size is 50

Make sure your sprite has its position reset, it might be off-screen.
I can only really guess at the moment, providing a link to the project would be good to see everything involved, however, please create a new topic for this instead, so that everyone is able to focus on answering your question only. I'll report this topic to get closed to prevent future necroposts.

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