I am making a racing game. When I hit the left or right arrow keys, I want the entire track to turn, not the car. So basically the sprite would rotate but on another sprite's axis. Sorry if you are confused - It's a weird question.

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

So when I moved the code into my project, this happened https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/ how do I fix it?

-cooleddie001- wrote:

I am making a racing game. When I hit the left or right arrow keys, I want the entire track to turn, not the car. So basically the sprite would rotate but on another sprite's axis. Sorry if you are confused - It's a weird question.

You could put this into your track sprite:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [left arrow] pressed?> then
turn ccw (amount of degrees you want to turn. make sure it is turning to the right and not left) degrees
end
if <key [right arrow] pressed?> then
turn cw (amount of degrees you want to turn. make sure it is turning to the left and not right) degrees
end
end

And also make the car stay in place. Hope this helped!

-cooleddie001- wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

So when I moved the code into my project, this happened https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/ how do I fix it?

Your link doesn't work, did you share your project?

gor-dee_test wrote:

-cooleddie001- wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

So when I moved the code into my project, this happened https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/ how do I fix it?

Your link doesn't work, did you share your project?

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/
its shared. should work

Strajox wrote:

-cooleddie001- wrote:

I am making a racing game. When I hit the left or right arrow keys, I want the entire track to turn, not the car. So basically the sprite would rotate but on another sprite's axis. Sorry if you are confused - It's a weird question.

You could put this into your track sprite:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [left arrow] pressed?> then
turn ccw (amount of degrees you want to turn. make sure it is turning to the right and not left) degrees
end
if <key [right arrow] pressed?> then
turn cw (amount of degrees you want to turn. make sure it is turning to the left and not right) degrees
end
end

And also make the car stay in place. Hope this helped!

The track needs to rotate on the car's axis, not the middle.

-cooleddie001- wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

-cooleddie001- wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

So when I moved the code into my project, this happened https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/ how do I fix it?

Your link doesn't work, did you share your project?

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/
its shared. should work

The link still isn't working and I don't see it on your profile???

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

I've also struggled with this before. It took me a while to rediscover a way of doing it without using the trig operators. FWIW I think this works (as an adapted version of your “turn” script):

set [stored distance v] to (distance to [ball v])
set [original direction v] to (direction)
point towards [ball v]
go to [ball v]
turn cw (degrees) degrees
move (() - (stored distance)) steps
point in direction ((original direction) + (degrees))

gor-dee wrote:

-cooleddie001- wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

-cooleddie001- wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

So when I moved the code into my project, this happened https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/ how do I fix it?

Your link doesn't work, did you share your project?

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/356961483/
its shared. should work

The link still isn't working and I don't see it on your profile???

It says its shared. Let me reshare. If it doesn't show up I will contact the ST

PutneyCat wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

I've also struggled with this before. It took me a while to rediscover a way of doing it without using the trig operators. FWIW I think this works (as an adapted version of your “turn” script):

set [stored distance v] to (distance to [ball v])
set [original direction v] to (direction)
point towards [ball v]
go to [ball v]
turn cw (degrees) degrees
move (() - (stored distance)) steps
point in direction ((original direction) + (degrees))

Thank you! It works perfectly!

PutneyCat wrote:

gor-dee_test wrote:

This was more difficult than I thought it would be!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/
I'm not sure if my solution is the most efficient way to do this but it does work!

I've also struggled with this before. It took me a while to rediscover a way of doing it without using the trig operators. FWIW I think this works (as an adapted version of your “turn” script):

set [stored distance v] to (distance to [ball v])
set [original direction v] to (direction)
point towards [ball v]
go to [ball v]
turn cw (degrees) degrees
move (() - (stored distance)) steps
point in direction ((original direction) + (degrees))

I had a feeling something like this was doable but I couldn't get it to work (I wasn't doing the point towards ball at the beginning)

Converted my project https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/ into a race track…

gor-dee_test wrote:

Converted my project https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/357343638/ into a race track…

Ok