Height/Length of "costume"

Parametric

I know you can technically do this by doing each costume individually, but I think this block would make it a lot more convenient when measuring distances. For example, I'm making a game where the wall sensing engine is kind of like this.

(in the platform's scripts)

if <(y position) - ([y position v] of [Player v]) > (([height v] of [Player v]) / (2))> then 
set [bottom sensor v] to [1]
else
set [bottom sensor v] to [0]
end

(that's a simplified version of it anyway)

Basically, the “height of player” block could be a way of accounting for the Player sprite's different costume changes to ensure that it works the same no matter which costume the Player sprite is in.

Again, I know there's a work-around by doing each costume individually (e.g. if ypos - Player_ypos > 24 and Player_costume = 1 OR ypos - Player_ypos > 12 and Player_costume = 2, etc.), or I guess you could make a sprite-exclusive variable for the player & do it that way, but I feel like adding height/length would make it a lot more convenient for these types of engines to run.

Idk, let me know what you guys think

Last edited by Parametric (Dec. 6, 2017 02:19:32)

Charles12310

Support because I really don't want to drag all those blocks in the workaround. It takes up space when you make long booleans. I think that we should have costume height/length for many important reasons.

I think Griffpatch had a way to determining height/length but it's better to just get the height/length right away.

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Support because I really don't want to drag all those blocks in the workaround. It takes up space when you make long booleans.

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Support! It would be very useful to be able to directly know the costume's height and length.

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no support. To complicated and you can use lists.

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ideapad-320 wrote:
no support. To complicated and you can use lists.

How would we use lists to change the height/length of a sprite?
Other than that I support because it makes it easier and the workaround is just too complicated.

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Tunde123 wrote:
ideapad-320 wrote:
no support. To complicated and you can use lists.
How would we use lists to change the height/length of a sprite?
Other than that I support because it makes it easier and the workaround is just too complicated.

I don't think we would change the value of the height/width. there would just be a variable that is used to define that. we could use lists to store the values of the dimensions for each costume, but if you want to change the costuem then you will need to update the list. support, much needed

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