Rain, Snow and Clones
🎯 Hundreds of raindrops fall, each its own object, from a single sprite.
💡 The idea behind it
A clone is a copy of a sprite made while the program runs. This one idea is behind bullets, enemies, particles and almost every real game.
🧱 Blocks you will need
create clone of myselfwhen I start as a clonedelete this clonepick randomhide / show
🔨 Build it
- Draw one small raindrop and hide the original sprite.
- Main: forever → create clone of myself → wait 0.1 seconds.
- when I start as a clone: go to x (pick random −240 to 240) y 180 → show → repeat until y position < −170 → change y by −10.
- Then: delete this clone. This line is not optional.
- Change the wait and the fall speed and watch a drizzle become a storm.
🚀 Make it harder
- Make snow instead: slower, and drifting sideways with a small random x change.
- Make the drops splash — switch costume when they reach the bottom, before deleting.
🐞 Bugs you will hit
- Scratch slows to a crawl and then stops making clones: you never deleted them. Scratch allows 300 at once, and without 'delete this clone' you hit that limit in half a minute.
- Nothing appears: the clone needs 'show', because it inherited the hidden state of the original.
⬇ Need Scratch itself?
Free from MIT, in a browser or as an offline app that needs no connection at all.
