How to Make a Mouse Trail in Scratch | Tutorial

Let's make mouse trails and cursor effects in Scratch! Mouse trails are a fun way to take a game, animation, or story to the next level, and with this tutorial, you'll be able to add an animated cursor to any of your projects.

Try it out:

Remix this project (just go to the link and click the green "Remix" button or blue "See Inside" button):

Thanks to @speakvisually for doing the video editing for this tutorial!
And, thanks to @ceebee for the tutorial idea!

Project credits (in order of appearance):

[Zinnea]

What's gonna be the object in your mouse trail? :D

[griffpatch]

Well obviously the squirrel trail will be my trail of choice from now on - Great tutorial as always Zinnea

[indah_flicker]

The fact that this was uploaded on my birthday. This is perfect

[auraqore]

Here's a fun tip! If you want colors that are specific instead of the rainbow colors of the color effect, make multiple costumes and color them differently. Then, put a switch costume block into the forever loop for when I become a clone, and put a 'choose random from 1 to 10' block and put that where it says the costume number that it would switch to. Change the numbers to 1 to the amount of costumes you have. You're welcome!

[ihavenothingtonamemynameso]

A good detail make the player feels better on our project. Thanks Scratch Team!

[AmazingStorie]

Wow, thanks for the video Zinnea we loved it!

[ultimatefsc]

Wow! A much better way to make mouse trails! I was wondering how to do that 'Explosion' Effect! Thankyou, Zinnea!

[engineermehreenkanwal]

I made many projects using these tutorials their so easy to follow and understand. thank

[Nikita-deyl]

At 2:24, when I click the green flag, only the code of following the mouse pointer is working despite adding in all the other code you've mentioned until the timestamp 2:24. Please help

[sreedhanyag]

Thankyou soo much Zinnea! This video was really helpful and you explained it really well!

[oof]

Hey scratch team what's the story behind that cat it's so iconic.

[JoannaBananaplayz]

you always teach us cool, complicated projects in simple ways. thanks zinnea.

[bluegamz.official]

ur videos are so COOL Zinnea! Even, ScratchTeam videos are!

[BestBoi]

Can we have a way to make it so you can still click on other sprites with the trail?

[dubsisthegoat]

A very easy stylish detail to add to your project! Well Done!

[Nether_Portall]

I made mines on Scratch, If this project didn't exist I would have been bored because I'm always bored, Thanks Zinnea and the Scratch Team!

[eboatwright_]

Thank you for my childhood and getting me into coding Scratch team! :D

[chiroyce]

Wow this one is so simple but yet adds so much to the project, great tutorial!!

[scratcher-random-clips]

finaaaaly a new video I been waiting in months

[swanikk]

Tip: You can just add an fade block to make it a little smoother. (Don’t remove the delete this clone block)