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The following blocks have been added to the playground:

1. “user id” in Sensing, which returns the unique id of the current user

2. AI image search in “AI”: a reporter block that returns the URL of an AI-generated image from the library based on a search query. Note that this does not generate new images, but searches among existing images generated by AI, so it is much faster.

3. add image from a URL as costume in “Looks”. You scale down the image to a maximum width/height:

Note that #2 and #3 can be combined to add an AI image as a costume:

@info-creaticode Ohh, ok. Thank you for taking the time to research it.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

We did some further research. It appears currently we can only show an HTML page as a texture on a 3D plane, so you can not interact with it the same way as a normal HTML page. So this would be quite limited in use cases.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail I almost said “why local storage” but then I remembered I found that the refresh token is one of the first things in local storage

@info-creaticode Could it be made instead that you can put HTML on a 2d plane? That is possible, doesn’t require widgets,and the only thing that could be exploited is the script tag, but you guys can easily just fix that by deleting the script tags so javascript doesnt run.

But I have an idea, what if it’s made so that you can use JavaScript in your blocks in your projects but certain features are blocked? Basically, blocks that already accept HTML code but don’t accept script tags (like rich textboxes and chat windows) will now allow scripts to run, however, stuff like window.close won’t run (because that closes the window) and localstorage, indexedDB, and cookie access (to prevent login sessions from being hacked, read, or tampered with), and loading scripts from other sites will be blocked too.

@info-creaticode Ah, I understand, thank you for the explanation

@011830-0a42ef84 Actually yes, I made a game with it in 2022 called 2dGalaxyWorld (I was recreating a game of the same name that I made on Scratch) and I love how their 2d physics works, and it took a lot less time to implement that including all the pros of Scratch homemade 2d physics like wall jumping and whatnot. It was also epic how there was a bug in my game I intended on keeping that basically allowed you to take advantage of a wall jump glitch and then fling yourself into the air. However I would later quit Flowlab because so many good features required a subscription.

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That’s an interesting idea. It should be possible technically, but not with our existing widget blocks. We will have to create a new set of blocks for attaching widgets to 3D planes.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Hey have you tried flowlab.io?

@tyller_ said in Feature request: putting/converting widgets to a 2d plane in a 3d world:

so it could be a bit difficult to draw and rotate it

Not exactly, I don’t know what 3d engine/library that CC uses like three.js or babylonJS, but I do know that such libraries have a way or method to put HTML on a 2d plane, I mean I just showed examples of exactly that in the pictures above.
heres another example:

this was like the only image I could find on the internet that’s a good example of this scenario