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Control

Control - Scratch Tutorial

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Control

- [Voiceover] Using the control scripts, you can do several different types of tasks. Control involves running commands repeatedly, waiting for a certain amount of time, running if then statements that check to see if something is true, and if it's true, then you can run a command, and you can run a command if it's not true if you want, and control also controls clones. Clones are copies of a sprite, so let's look at how some of that works. So on the screen here I have a wizard and a lightning bolt, you may notice that I've shorten down the lightning bolt a little bit and rotated it, so it look like it's coming out of the wizard's magic wand. So what you wanna do is click the wizard and have the lightning bolt launched out. So let's start with just having a lightning bolt move. So what I'm going to do is, inside of the control section, I'm gonna drag out, with the lightning bolt selected, the forever script. So this is going to run commands forever, so unless it get's to the end, it's…

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