Random movement and sprite direction

Pitchounette

Hi there,
How does one use random movement x and y but have the sprite face the right direction? The direction of the random movement? thanks and have a wonderful day.

wkelly42

deck26

Rather than thinking of it as x and y movement think of it as an angle and a distance. Note that rotation style only needs to be set once unless you change it subsequently.

Pitchounette

You are so nice and fast! But…I don't see set rotation style in my list of movement…

Pitchounette

Oh and I would like them to glide

peppermintpatty5

Pitchounette wrote:
You are so nice and fast! But…I don't see set rotation style in my list of movement…

Are you using Scratch 1.4? If so, you can change the rotation style using the three buttons located slightly under the “file” button.

deck26

Pitchounette wrote:
Oh and I would like them to glide

In that case you want to glide to random x and y values, presumably. x goes from -240 to 240, y from -180 to 180 so you can put those values in two random blocks.

Pitchounette

Are you using Scratch 1.4? If so, you can change the rotation style using the three buttons located slightly under the “file” button.

Maybe it is Scratch 1.4…I'm on linux and I installed it that way. I do use the three little buttons (only face left-right) but I don't want them to glide backwards!

deck26

Pitchounette wrote:
Are you using Scratch 1.4? If so, you can change the rotation style using the three buttons located slightly under the “file” button.

Maybe it is Scratch 1.4…I'm on linux and I installed it that way. I do use the three little buttons (only face left-right) but I don't want them to glide backwards!

Ah, the problem I think you're referring to is that unlike ‘move’ the glide block doesn't turn the sprite. So what you probably want to do is get your random x and y coordinates, work out if x is greater than or less than the current value (and turn accordingly) then glide.

Pitchounette

Thanks. I'll let you know if it works!

radruben

thx

Aqua_Cheetah123

Ok, so how would you make it only face 180 degrees or 90 degrees but randomly choose when I place it down

imfh

Aqua_Cheetah123 wrote:
Ok, so how would you make it only face 180 degrees or 90 degrees but randomly choose when I place it down

Welcome to the Scratch forums! To keep things organized, it is usually preferable that you create a new topic to get help in Help With Scripts. This is especially the case when the topic is nearly 4 years old. Next time, please check the date before posting.

You can use this script to randomly choose 90 or 180 degrees:

imaboss19

I want any possible angle!!!!!!

db3t

deck26 wrote:
Rather than thinking of it as x and y movement think of it as an angle and a distance. Note that rotation style only needs to be set once unless you change it subsequently.

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