How to have text go vertically up screen

[jenkija]

My students are able to have text scroll across the screen however I cannot seem to get the text to scroll vertically. Ideas?

[pluto]

This might help:

Moving text in Game Lab

Good Afternoon @langilla1, I will give you clear instructions of how to achieve this goal. #1. Create a variable named anything, for my case I will use x. var x; #2. Assign the variable var x = 0; #3. In a loop (preferably the draw loop), add an increment operator or just use the method mentioned below. //i will use addition for mine. remember you can do any operation depending on what you want x++; //or you can use x += 1 //if you do not know, this is the same as x = x + 1 #4. Then in…

[jenkija]

Thank you so much for the assistance! I could get the horizontal but just couldn’t figure out the vertical!
This is wonderful! Thanks again!

[melynn]

@jenkija,

@pluto 's instructions above will help with the vertical as well. When you look at the text block, there are both x and y parameters. So, you would keep x constant but use @pluto 's advice for incrementing (using the counter pattern) for the y parameter (so use y instead of x).

Hope that helps!
~Michelle