Making Text Move?

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A lot of my students are curious how they could make text move as we create and add onto the scenes they’ve created in Lessons 1-7. I use these same scenes with them as we move onto Lessons 8-12 as well.

Is this a possibility? How would it be done? Is it possible to save text as a variable to make it more “sprite-like”?

Thanks, in advance.

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Hi Wendy,

Here is a link to one way to make the text move. Unit 3: animation

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Thanks so much, Karen! I searched but couldn’t find any topics. I appreciate you taking the time to point me in the right direction!

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I am having a difficult time making the text go vertically. Do you have any hints how I might do this?

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Yes! Try this:
To make “text” move vertically, set a variable like: var Words = 0 (Do not use “text”).
In The Draw Loop add this counter pattern: Words = Words + 1 (use -1 to make text go up)
In the text command, replace the value of y with Words:
text (“your moving text”, 50, Words);