How to rotate a sprite without changing direction

beano1207

Hi,
How do I rotate a sprite, but not changing the direction that the sprite moves in.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

cs3624959

when green flag clicked
broadcast [explain to this guy that that's not possible]
broadcast [tell him he should use the]
change x by ()
broadcast [block or the]
change y by ()
broadcast [block instead of the]
move () steps
broadcast [block.]

Last edited by cs3624959 (Oct. 7, 2019 21:29:49)

cs3624959

also, to actually answer your question,

no that nots possible.
you can, however use the other at your disposal to make that possible
so maybe try to fix a problem yourself instead of asking everyone a silly question.

---Flippy---

As said, i'm pretty sure this isn't possible.

ConfusedBiscuit

cs3624959 wrote:
so maybe try to fix a problem yourself instead of asking everyone a silly question.

It appears that this user is quite new to scratch. They may not have known how to deal with sprites as well as you do. They were asking for help since they needed it. No question is a silly question

Yes, actually. You can use negative values in your blocks to make it move a certain way, I usually rotate in the costume editor for my projects, but you can use

turn cw () degrees

To rotate as well.

Dragonlord767

Your best options would be to use the Change x and change y blocks, or to rotate the sprite in a new costume, then have it switch to that costume.

beano1207

Thanks guys!

cs3624959

sorry for being mean

oliviervanwouwe

Generate several images, one for each direction. Then change the costume based on the direction.

Last edited by oliviervanwouwe (March 27, 2021 17:23:57)

ninjaMAR

oliviervanwouwe wrote:
Generate several images, one for each direction. Then change the costume based on the direction.

Please don't necropost

atomnick

Actually you can kind of do this. Make an invisible sprite that changes direction and moves in that direction, then make the character sprite always go to the invisible sprite.

Spentine

atomnick wrote:
Actually you can kind of do this. Make an invisible sprite that changes direction and moves in that direction, then make the character sprite always go to the invisible sprite.

Please don't necropost

Supernoodles99

beano1207 wrote:
Hi,
How do I rotate a sprite, but not changing the direction that the sprite moves in.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Do this:

change x by ((distance in pixels) * ([sin v] of (wanted direction)))
change y by ((distance in pixels) * ([cos v] of (wanted direction)))

instead of this:

move (distance in pixels) steps

or instead you could just rotate all the costumes, but that can be time consuming in some cases

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