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I think there's a bug in the Arrow1 sprite in Scratch 2.0, because when you add it to a project, it has costume #4 (pointing up) selected instead of costume #1 (pointing right). Normally, you would expect the default costume to be facing right, so this causes odd results when using the “point in direction” block because the sprite appears to point in a different direction to where it moves.

This behaviour is also inconsistent with Arrow2, where the default costume is pointing right.

I think this is a change that's happened in the last few months.

Sean

Um…. you could just use a script to rotate it or rotate it yourself in the costume section.

BY147258369 wrote:

Um…. you could just use a script to rotate it or rotate it yourself in the costume section.

But what about beginning scratchers? You can't just give a workaround for an actual bug. ST please fix.

It's true that you could rotate the sprite or change the costume, but it's better to fix bugs than work around them. This is an arrow sprite that doesn't point in the direction it's moving in. That's fundamentally broken.

This came to my attention when a beginner Scratcher couldn't get one of my tutorials working because of this issue. This is not an easy thing for beginners to resolve.

It's better to fix the bug at source than to require every project to fix it individually by adding a switch costume block. Switching the costume isn't intuitive for beginners and it's inconsistent with all the other sprites I believe.