I have a “cash” sprite. When you click it it disappears and adds 1 to “money” variable. “cash” spawns when you click a button. If I click it, 1 cash appears. If I click it again, 2 more appear. When I click it again, like 3 cashes all appear at once. How can I make the clone command make 1 clone of something no matter how many other clones there are?

Hi CocoGoldie789,

It may be that you have the Cash sprite creating clones, so if there are already clones, in addition to the original non-clone, they each create a clone of themselves.

The two ways to solve this are:

1. Have some other sprite you know there is just one of create the clones of Cash
   
2. Give clones ID values (say from 1 up) and have an if statement to only let the original sprite (say ID = 0) create new clones.
   

If you share a link to your project, people can give you more specific advice.

– RT_Borg

You can also use cloneIDs in a simple fashion - make the sprite have cloneID=0 and all clones have cloneID=1. This is easily done by setting cloneID to 1 at the top of the ‘when I start as clone’ script. No need in this case to number clones individually.

Ah, clever deck26.

(is-clone) // for this sprite only

when green flag clicked
set [is-clone v] to [false]
...

when I start as a clone
set [is-clone v] to [true]
...

I've had this problem and what I did is when I wanted to create a clone, I broadcasted something, then in a different sprite, put the when I receive the broadcast, create a clone of whatever you need.

RT_Borg wrote:

Hi CocoGoldie789,

It may be that you have the Cash sprite creating clones, so if there are already clones, in addition to the original non-clone, they each create a clone of themselves.

The two ways to solve this are:

1. Have some other sprite you know there is just one of create the clones of Cash
   
2. Give clones ID values (say from 1 up) and have an if statement to only let the original sprite (say ID = 0) create new clones.
   

If you share a link to your project, people can give you more specific advice.

– RT_Borg

thank you. your first method worked!