Animation not working in this code

[Vegz78]

Here’s the updated link to the topic about sprite size vs smooth movements:

Sprites other than 16x16 move unsmoothly?

To get some better practice with MakeCode Arcade sprite movements and animations, I have recently been playing around with the following help request from @jaturn68. What I might have discovered(at least on my computers and browsers), and which baffled me, is that using the regular controller.moveSprite(vx, vy) function on a 16x16 sprite gives silky smooth movement on the x axis with any sprite image and at arbitrary vx speeds, while movement gets choppy for irregularly or different sized sprit…

Perhaps this very thread could work as the best practice example, where @richard / the @makecode team / someone on this forum enhances/optimizes @jaturn68’s code to work fluently with animations in all directions and for all actions, and rewrite the code to be:

• both efficient and more readable,
• with silky smooth movements and animations, and
• immune to hang-ups and strange behavior resulting from hammering many buttons at the same time?