I have two students working on their Unit 3 Lesson 27 game. They are using sprite backgrounds. They can get the player and target to show up on top of the sprite background but when we try to move the player there is an error. The code looks correct but the error says that the sprite name has not been defined yet.
What can be done to help this? (We did have to create the player and target in a function to make them show up on top of the backgrounds.)
Can you send us a shared link to look at?
Mike
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That link isn’t shared. Can you try enabling sharing so we can see it?
One general item of feedback that could help, though. They should create the sprites outside of the draw loop (and outside of any functions called by the draw loop). If they don’t want it showing up yet, they can hide it by using the sprite.visible block (and setting it to false). Then, inside the loop, they could set it to be visible and I’m guessing that will solve this problem.
good luck!
Mike
Thank you, I will have them try that.