Unit 3 Lesson 13 Bubble 2 - Example Question

[starnd]

In the sample animated scene for Unit 3 Lesson 13 the text is animated - it is moving left and right. I am wondering how this is done. I have students asking how to do that and I am not sure. I’ve never done it before in prior lessons. Please help if you can. Thanks!

[edavis]

Hi @starnd,
Someone else may be able to answer this with more precision, but I believe they turned the text into a sprite for that to work.

[starnd]

That makes sense to me. I was looking for anything to share with them and I only found the startText block that scrolls across the screen. Thanks for sharing that. That is easy for them to do once it is a “sprite”

[mwood]

@starnd There is another way to scroll text. Here’s a link to a previous post where I shared an example of scrolling text by using variables and the draw loop.

Unit 3: animation

Create a variable for the x position of the text such as: var textStart = -200 (off the screen) Then, when you place the text, place it inside the draw loop using the variable you created as the x position and then increment the variable… the code below would cause it to scroll left to right across the screen. textSize(20); text(“Once there was a fisherman …”, textStart, 375); textStart=textStart+3;

Mike