DAVE I NEED HELP. PLEASE MAKE THE SPRITE move instead of just jumping around. By mpve i mean slide

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– Ooze
–this is all in main
–please help dave, read the title

--variables
local slimeMovement
local timer
local oozeWidth
local oozeHeight


function setup()
    print("Hello World!")
    displayMode(FULLSCREEN)
    
    --defining variables
    timer=0
    oozeWidth=WIDTH/2
    oozeHeight=HEIGHT/2
    
    --sprites
    sprite("Dropbox:ooze",oozeWidth,oozeHeight,64,48)

end


-- This function gets called once every frame
function draw()
    --setting up 
    sprite("Dropbox:ExperimentMap",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2,1024,768)
    sprite("Dropbox:ooze",oozeWidth,oozeHeight,64,48)
    strokeWidth(5)
    
    timer=timer+1
    
    --deciding where slime will move
    if timer==1 then
    slimeMovement=math.random(4)
    print(slimeMovement) 
    
        if slimeMovement==1 then print("moving up")
            oozeHeight=oozeHeight+25
            sprite("Dropbox:ooze",oozeWidth,oozeHeight,64,48)
        end
        if slimeMovement==2 then print("moving right")
            oozeWidth=oozeWidth+25
            sprite("Dropbox:ooze",oozeWidth,oozeHeight,64,48)
        end
        if slimeMovement==3 then print("moving down")
            oozeHeight=oozeHeight-25
            sprite("Dropbox:ooze",oozeWidth,oozeHeight,64,48)
        end
        if slimeMovement==4 then print("moving left")
            oozeWidth=oozeWidth-25
            sprite("Dropbox:ooze",oozeWidth,oozeHeight,64,48)
        end  
    
    elseif timer==60 then timer=0
    end
    
    
end

--end of code
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Try changing by 1 instead of by 25

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@codeaprogrammer If you want a smooth random motion in an up/down, right/left direction, then here’s a way to do it. It also accounts for going off the screen edge. I don’t have your sprites, so I used the Codea sprites. There are better ways to make the random motion in any direction, but you show just up, down, right, or left so that’s what I show.

displayMode(FULLSCREEN)

--variables
local slimeMovement
local timer
local oozeWidth
local oozeHeight

function setup()
    timer=60
    oozeWidth=WIDTH/2
    oozeHeight=HEIGHT/2
    dx,dy=0,0
end

function draw()
    background(0)
    sprite("Cargo Bot:Starry Background",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2,WIDTH,HEIGHT)
    timer=timer+1
    if timer>60 then
        timer=0
        vx,vy=0,0
        slimeMovement=math.random(4)
        if slimeMovement==1 then
            vy=1
        elseif slimeMovement==2 then
            vx=1
        elseif slimeMovement==3 then 
            vy=-1
        elseif slimeMovement==4 then 
            vx=-1
        end  
    end
    dx=dx+vx
    dy=dy+vy
    sprite("Planet Cute:Character Boy",(oozeWidth+dx)%WIDTH,(oozeHeight+dy)%HEIGHT,50)
end
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@codeaprogrammer Here’s a version that uses more random directions.

displayMode(FULLSCREEN)

--variables
local timer=60
local oozeWidth=WIDTH/2
local oozeHeight=HEIGHT/2
local speed=2

function setup()
end

function draw()
    background(0)
    sprite("Cargo Bot:Starry Background",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2,WIDTH,HEIGHT)
    timer=timer+1
    if timer>60 then
        timer=0
        dir=vec2(math.random(-100,100),math.random(-100,100))
        dir=dir:normalize()*speed
    end
    oozeWidth=oozeWidth+dir.x
    oozeHeight=oozeHeight+dir.y
    sprite("Planet Cute:Character Boy",oozeWidth%WIDTH,oozeHeight%HEIGHT,50)
end
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Some good precedents to look at it flocking swarm code in processing, a guy called daniel shiffman explains it really well. That knowledge has spawned a lot of other functions for me and just gave me a really good foundation for thinking in terms of “time” in the app