Update 6.1 - Bug fix and Balance Patch Update:
Release Date: TBA

What’s new:

Airstrikes Reduced the size of the bombs by approx. 10% Because of this change, the rate at which bombs shrink before exploding is reduced. Increased explosion size by approx. 15% Bombs now instantly disappear if the come into contact with building walls or roofs, and will not explode. Reduced the strike area size for bombs to drop in by approx. 8%, and reduced the radius for which bombs can drop within the circle. The words Airstrike zone have been removed. UI The player counter can no longer be pulled up when in not playing in Realistic Battles. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where players killed by Airstrikes would not adjust the player counter in Realistic Battles. Fixed a bug which caused Airstrikes to still occur even when a match was not in progress Fixed a bug where the player would get kills from defeated enemy players with airstrikes.

@hynes-averyy-8b125bb5 It is quite annoying when they forget stuff during a lot conversation lol, that is true. Ill check out narrati and tell you what I think. Ive been experimenting with AI lately for different stuff (except its “art”) and I might make a project for this now not sure 🤔. Thank you for the response!

@blackguy-27c5da45 I see it on the search tab:
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@info-creaticode It’s not there anymore, I changed it from a clone to the actual sprite since I couldn’t figure out the bug.

I added some sounds when you upgrade. Nifty little feature.

@the_true_odst make it so if they touch it they say something or use print to console. This is how most programmers (allegedly people using languages other than JS dont do this but I still doubt that) debug stuff, you add a bunch of prints to ensure what is broken, like is it the touching detection or the cursor, you dont know becuase if one doesn’t work, the other won’t (if touching doesnt work then the cursor will never change, if the cursor changing doesnt work you wouldn’t know becuase the touching would be trying to use something that’s broken)

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

Thanks. We will look into this.

@info-creaticode That sounds good!

@the_true_odst

The code should work. Can you provide a project link where it doesn’t work for you? And what do you mean by “doesn’t work”?

@The_True_Odst I struggled to understand what you meant at first, but after some re-reading, I can help. So I understand you want to be able to find the decimal number AT any decimal place of any decimal number reliably.
So, decimal places go like
0.0001
(whole number).tenths,hundredths,thousandths,ten-thousandths, hundred-thousandths, millions, etc.

So we know the bold in 0.0001 is thousandths, but we need a program to do that.
We’ll just be saying the number of its place instead, like that’s the third decimal place here (3).

So we need to clean up the number by making it positive (incase its negative), and only focusing on the part after the decimal point, then returning the decimal place based on another input.

Make a reporter custom block with two inputs then put this code into it:
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It should report the number that exists at a decimal place. So in 0.128456, if you wanted to know the number that resides at thousandths place (3), then you’d do (return decimal place (3) of decimal number (0.128456)) and it would report “8”.

@the_true_odst Ok

@info-creaticode cool!

so who wants to fight the chicken?

CHICKEN JOCKEY!

@flores-yorkshireacademy

If you ask our AI assistant, you should be able to find out the issue:

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Our original example was using “body rotation speed limit”. I guess you picked the wrong block?

@the_true_odst said in New block: Round by {number}:

What about a new block?

Well, it will be a bit confusing with 2 “round” blocks. Also, as shown, it is fairly easy to work around it, right?

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@the_true_odst

Another way is to scale it up by 100, round to integers (so get rid of the tiny noise value), then divide it by 100:

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@the_true_odst in the files app for your chromebook make a new folder, then make three text folders, make sure you have show file extensions on, and rename one to index.html, another to style.css, and another to script.js, I would recommend for this initial setup and for learning the basics of js very quickly, ask an ai about it, Im not saying you should have an ai make it all, but ask it for stuff like what a draw loop is or when to use multiple js files, I think an ai could better explain what Im trying to say in context of a chromebook

@the_true_odst a6f72653-e131-453d-9a74-ed5141ab2a54-image.png

@attractive-milk

Points taken. This layout was used when there weren’t a lot of user projects yet. We will redesign it to make popular user projects higher on the page. Thank you.

@coder0145

In that case, you can use a forever loop to turn the avatar towards the direction of the camera (its “H-Angle” like this:

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@tyller_ Alr. I will backpack the scripts into a separate project and share it. (I do use the target x/y lists)

@dreamsmp_luck It would also be good if there was an option to switch between arrow keys and WASD

@the_true_odst you use the intended and actual as a back bone, for the gravity you just set the intended x and intended y values at the changing, your gravity was mainly change y by 2 every frame and then change y by negative 2 to go down (from what I remember), you can set the intended y speed to 2 every frame (you dont need to every frame but it would work) and then the same with negative, you wouldn’t use 2 because multiplayer blocks make sprites move slower than if you moved them yourself so you have to retest it

basically, you replace all change y by blocks in your gravity with set intended y speed to a value and test for what they should be

@sirbots thats good 😄

@the_true_odst

Unfortunately, we are using the NodeBB project for this forum, which does not support such customized notifications. There are some settings you can change in your own setting page.

@info-creaticode I mean like being able to choose between textures:
Picture of textures
The colors will still be the same depending on how you color them, but the texture may look different.

Edit: the URL may not work

@info-creaticode Here soon, at the doctor’s rn. I will provide an explanation:

The project which I had shared where the sound blocks were not working, I had made a copy of the original version with all the old code from the main WOC game. The blocks worked just fine.

HOWEVER:

After making some edits, and, moving the song files around, the sound blocks did not work. Reloading the project yielded no Sucess, and making a copy didn’t work as well. Going towards the original copy of the project, it was working just fine. Even making different edits to make it look the same didn’t break the blocks. I made the code for the project, keeping the original code in the sprites holding the songs from the game, then deleted the original code once I had made all the new code. Doing this did not break the blocks EXCEPT in the Stage.

OHHH MY PCCCCCC

Click me! (reloads site… hopefully dosent do something else after posting, i will delete this if so)

@info-creaticode sounds good

@the_true_odst said in Maybe Creaticode knows the issue::

point towards mouse-pointer” is a bit buggy

We’ll look into that.

@sirbots Good luck!

@attractive-milk @The_True_Odst

Thanks for the feedback. It appears to be an issue related to computer speed and network latency between the 2 of you.

We will give it more tests and try to improve the performance.

@info-creaticode thanks for the idea! I will definitely do something like that for sure

@sirbots

Please try again. The issue should be resolved now.

@tyller_ oh yeah sometimes putting an invisible HTML element in the middle of a word helps. That site actually isnt blocked and I’ll keep it in mind for file stuff, thank you!

@the_true_odst It is somewhat top down. I suppose you could just alter the general placement to fit your game.

@attractive-milk Also, Scratch comes with a Milk carton. (A sprite, not a real one.)

@the_true_odst Ah like app store apps where they have the carousel of app images? That’d be awesome

This New Ocean 2.0 - Major Content Update

Release date: TBA

What’s New

AI

Finished V1 of the AI The AI can now damage players. The AI will not be visible unless they are within a certain distance of the player. Begun work of adding statistics to different ships Increased the number of bots on the map. Widen the area at which bots spawn by 250% and further increased the distance of which they spawn from each other.

Player

Begun work of adding different statistics to different ships Begun live testing of guided missiles

Buildings

Begun work for settlements to attack enemy ships Added a new building: Port Provides the highest resource rate of any building up to this version, and is the first major resource production building to have defenses.
Statistics Population Growth Rate: 15 Resource Rate: 250 Defense: 3/10

Planets

Added 6 new planet Designs Added 6 new planet surfaces

Sounds

Added voice-lines. Added 6 new soundtracks for fighting enemies

Bug Fixes
There are no bug fixes.

This update is to focus on adding content and testing content.

The AI has played a key part in the game’s development. This version would complete the first working alliteration of the AI.

Since there are different variations of ships the player can use, these ships should have different statistics that should stand out from others. Thus, the Battlecuriser and the Battleship will have their own statistics.

To provide an alternative to machine gun fights, guided missiles will added. During all of 2.0’s live updates, each will mark a new testing stage for these missiles. Expect the game to break or mess up during these live updates.

Introducing the first new building to the game: The Port. For those who want to make a large investment for their settlement, this would be for you! Provides a whopping 250 resources per 5 seconds. It’s also the first major resource building with a form of defense against enemies.

Along with some new planet designs and enemies, this will be one of the few massive updates the game will get.

The next update will be the first live test update of building defenses and guided missiles.

@mod-squadacademy Here is the link for the game:
https://forum.creaticode.com/topic/1902/sneak-peak-of-a-game-omg-this-is-so-laggy

@c I’ll go fix that, I have the default message setup to notify some people of reports and must of messed it up in the project side

editing this cus I fixed it in like 4 minutes, it seems that the only way you could of gotten that is if it saw your user id as blank, for my alt I have a placeholder setup since I haven’t used it in a while so I haven’t gone to get its user id to set it. I left the place for the user id blank, so I just tested and if the user id is nothing it’ll detect your user id as being for my alt, I have made it so it has a dummy value, but it’s weird that it ever triggered since it would require your user id to be nothing.

Something else, I didnt realize you could make a world without a password and name, I thought I probably would of thought about that but I r have realized I didnt, I jsut made a world manually (via editing the sheets data) to have one

edit 2: I’ve also made it so it trims world names so you can’t make worlds with spaces/whitespace for names

@tyller_
Oh I was able to see those points. I didn’t even try to break it. It just did.

@tyller_

Please give it a try. I would love to hear your feedback. It is always a challenge to know when to give out the answer and when to hold it back, even for human teachers. Our current setting is to make the AI keep providing more hints when the user struggles. Hopefully, that will be good enough for most situations.

@sirbots

That should be resolved now.

@c That’s normal, and intended. If you change the cursor to “crosshair” then it will stay crosshair until you change it again. So it’s your responsibility to change the cursor back to the default.

@tyller_ I used the wrong operators, and I didn’t have the proper distance variable in the movement scripts.

@sirbots

Problem confirmed. It seems this is because this project is getting too big. It is over 145M when exported. You might need to consider using smaller clips or fewer sounds.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Happy Biffy!

@the_true_odst In This New Ocean, yes. The AI won’t however. It’s already out, just check the Update Log for the game to get the link.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail yeah if you copy a block and edit its name to something invalid it’ll show that, pretty sure any block that actually renders means it does have a texture or something about it defined

@jeffreyrb03-gmail yeah but with some touchscreen it allows for mouse and touchscreen, so maybe header blocks for when touchscreen started and when non touchscreen started? or just a booolean for if touchscreen is in use (whether last press was mouse or touchscreen) then manually detect changes and run scripts (toggling joysticks etc)

@tyller_ It doesnt use GPU acceleration like TensorFlow so it kinda sucks on that part as you have to make up methods to make it go faster and all that are kinda annoying.

For training data, it’s just a lot of sentences and all on random topics from wikipedia

@the_true_odst

This issue has been fixed.

Sorry to hear that. Can you try to reload the page?

Is there a project link that we can look into?

@sirbots I created 50 of something (let’s called it “thing1” bc the game I’m making is a secret), 25 of thing2, 12 of thing3, 6 of thing4, 3 of thing5, 1 of thing6, reshuffled the table a few times and pulled the first item out of that table. If that’s what you mean, would you make another table if you have a higher rarity with more rarer things added?

@info-creaticode I have 2 solutions to that.

1: Have the find closest clone automatically log each clone’s x and y coordinates of the target sprite every time it’s run.

2: Add a block to calculate the positions of all clones of the target sprite.

@info-creaticode True, I’m gonna make something that might help you guys out with that perhaps (not code)

@jeffreyrb03-gmail I realized that those blue boxes appear after playing tutorial, I will try to fix that

@the_true_odst
He means project score.
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and im clearly in last place on that list

@the_true_odst

This block has been fixed.

@mod-squadacademy I am referring to a “Japanese” teahouse. It’s essentially a building that Japanese people could live in, kinda like the homes you would see in some Japanese shows and WWII movies about Japan and the United States. I can’t go into very much detail here, as I know only a little bit myself.

hi my name is gennesis i love yuo

@c In Gandi IDE, last time I checked (And this may now be out of date), only one user can edit a sprite at a time.

@tyller_ Ah, alright 🙂

Version 3.4!

Added: New particles to greenfell (now… I might’ve stolen from the duck a little…)
Bug Fixes: You wouldn’t be able to click the duck whilst in the shop
The duck would jitter so much if you close the tab, making the duck teleport out of viewport
Grenfell (or Greenfell, whatever you call that abomination) now doesn’t go out of fencing since he doesn’t use move to random now. 😄

have fun! or… don’t, whatever floats your boat!

If you want to, please tell me any bugs, Remix the game and try to debug them yourself in my horrible monstrous coding empire.

@info-creaticode I will later. It just would not play in World of Conquest, despite multiple tests done with no conditioning for the code to run (If else blocks, etc)

@jd131111 idk look at sir metry yts projects

@info-creaticode Ah ok

@c thank you

@dreamsmp_luck

Are you referring to this forum? If so, only yourself can see them and no one else.

You can try to verify by looking at other user’s profile pages.

@c I doubt it, it’s a personal computer controlled by my parents by they ARE trying to help me progress my coding career

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Nice!! 😄

@tyller_
You know, 1st person CreatiCode VR games isn’t a bad idea… I might try to build an open-source version. Not in school, of course…

@tyller_ That’s actually a pretty good idea, it fits more with the nature of Scratch and CreatiCode rather than my idea

@the_true_odst We may do that. By the way, if you want a PFP, there’s a Scratcher named TechVantage who for a limited time is offering high-quality Canva made PFP’s and banners.

@jd131111

Indeed, that’s a good feature to add. Thank you

Major feature added for UI:

Music and SFX volume sliders are now added, you may customize the volume for sound effects and music 😄

@the_true_odst Because if someone were to speed up the project using turbo mode it wouldn’t do anything, here’s an example project, the dog moves 5 per frame

https://play.creaticode.com/projects/67c9b516d2f890470312d57b

@info-creaticode It shows now. I think why it didn’t show before was because my internet may have been down (because it wouldn’t let me save, either)

@info-creaticode It seems to be fixed, probably just my internet, but its odd how it was glitching and wouldnt let me do anything for 5+ hours.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail ah alright

@011830-0a42ef84 https://play.creaticode.com/projects/679b952fe83001fc08dae8bb

Hiya! Welcome to CreatiCode Forums. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

@mod-squadacademy-1bc96c56 well you can somewhat do it, it lets them move off the veiwport (which is effectively the screen) even though it’s technically not no fencing it still just lets sprite move out of view of your camera, the only issue is you can move the veiwport and then the sprites that were offscreen can be seen at the edges fo the canvas, but if you don’t move the viewport and use variables for x y (so the canvas border doesn’t affect stuff) you can do that.

I do have a better project for an example of no fencing, instead of just using it to do a grid I use it to let zombie ai’s with a physics body move offscreen (it moves everything when the player moves) and there is no way to tell that they do technically hit hte canvas border’

edit: I think the project I sent was just a bad example cus I used canvas size only so zooming in a lot wouldn’t show you the edges of other blocks when you’re moving a bunch, the canvas size isn’t the size of your screen, it’s how big hte fencing is, canvas size is the fencing size and viewport is the screen size

@tyller_ We’ll look into it!

@011830-0a42ef84
You’re kind of right.
Yes, it should, only 1 problem.
You can’t

@mod-squadacademy-1bc96c56
You are right but technically, they take up the same amount of space in blocks.

(join(-)((abs(X)))

has join()(), and abs(), takes up 2 blocks

((abs(X))*(-1))

has abs() and ()*() (multiplication), takes up 2 blocks.

In math, --2 =2, —2 = -2, and so on. I guess it’s more of preference on which method to use. Your method is nice since it works with numbers only, but mine mixes strings (the “-”) and numbers which may be a bit weird even though it’s still interpreted as a number (just a negative one).

@jeffreyrb03-gmail you should use the save data for stuff, that lets you not let chatgpt do different words for different people (how infinite craft works) and would let you have it check if the word already has been used and tell people they were the first to make that word, plus it wouldn’t have the technical limit of databases

@info-creaticode Oh wait I know what you’re talking about, lol. I always use that but moreso for data retrieval and putting purposes, but I can make a copy of the table to display. This helps, thank you!

@mod-squadacademy-1bc96c56 Ok! I appreciate the offer and I’m gonna start making turbowarp mods again.

@c Few things
You might need to press the flag more than once for it to work properly
Also, Casual (along with multiplayer) is not out yet, but are in works.

There’s also a bug in the sandbox mode (which may also occur in endless mode as well) that the detection indicators (“?” and “!”) will appear even though the bot is invisible. However, I am trying to fix this bug.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail My iframe embed over at my site now has “&autoPlay=true&btnOptions=none” at the end of it

@info-creaticode Just go to the Explore page, go to Studios, and scroll down. 2f9eb8d0-2179-41af-a4a4-c3fdc210c0e1-image.png

@mod-squadacademy-1bc96c56 creaticode already removes the clone limit, the crash was cus you should not make clones run forever loops without screen refresh especially if you’re going to do a metric ton of calculations every loop to determine what costume that clone should have and what offset it should be at, it’s a good example of how you can remove fencing effectively and the uses of it (I can give link to show it, I Think I had even cleaned up and split code among multiple sprites, I have a bad habit of putting all my code in single sprites unless it’s that much of an inconvenience to do so)

@011830-0a42ef84 I think they meant to say you can email it thoruhg your accounts email

@sirbots
I believe this belongs in Feedback!

@mod-squadacademy-1bc96c56
Hey! Make sure to look at the dates of the posts before posting here!
You had replied to a 6+ month old topic.

@sirbots Thank you! 😄

@011830-0a42ef84

Currently there is no code to directly do this. You probably need to calculate their distances and find which one is “too close”

@011830-0a42ef84

The issue might be that the current code is highly “inefficient”. It is repeatedly erasing the bar and redrawing it, even if the health has not changed. Usually, you only need to redraw it when the health has changed.

@sirbots got it

@011830-0a42ef84 Use a widget and make its background transparent (transparency 100% in color picker), and make it a loading symbol, try using ◠ and making it spin with the rotate widget block. This is a no sprite solution and can even be done in the Stage or wherever you choose.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail I got it fixed. I just have the bots point at a different target if the coordinates for their current target is the exact same as the player’s cords.

@011830-0a42ef84 yeah so the issue is likely that multiple broadcasts are being sent per frame, which causes only some broadcasts to work,there is no way around this as far as I know, actually a really scuffed/creative way could be you have each thing add to a list the instructions, and then each clone looks for their clone id in the list and follows that instruction (actually I might do that in my cell game to prevent a bug I’ve found with my black holes)

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Alright, the update’s out. Feel free to tinker with it as much as you want! The update log post has been edited with the new patch notes if you want to see what’s new.

@info-creaticode does it allow regex? You can probably make a regex that checks for more than like 4-5 new line characters, I think like .?\n.?\n.?\n.?\n.*?\n (There’s probably a less verbose way to do that but that was off the top of my head from what I remember about regex) would work

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

We reviewed DeepSeek, but it does not meet our safety requirements yet. It has only implemented a minimal safety guardrail, so we can’t support it in our platform at the current stage.

@011830-0a42ef84 using databases is a tiny bit tricky, but they are basically just tables with strict/enforced columns with types (like number, string, or date) and allow you to store rows in them. It is pretty transaction based kinda like actual databases. For a leaderboard you just need to create a database for a leaderboard, and to get data from it, just display say around 100 rows where a stat like coins is greatest, if you were to show some leaderboard of users with the most coins.

I’ll let you tinker around with that first and if you still need help then I would like to see your code and I’ll give working code. I do have a project that demonstrates how to use a database, you’ll have to look in the code though, and what it does it just check if a password you enter is the correct password by asking the database for the password and then checking if the inputted password is equal to the password from the database:

the project is in unlisted shared so u can see it
https://play.creaticode.com/projects/66f85f2ce228c74a133e1128


Hopefully my project doesn’t confuse you more, but all you have to do is just change it up and delete the stuff leftover from my challenge thingie. Instead of using the database to store one singular piece of text, you can use it to store multiple rows like a table and in the end, you could use that database to make a leaderboard of your own and shows what you want.

The columns it should be storing are (user id), found in Sensing, and then any variables.

@info-creaticode Ahh ok, I didn’t think to leave them blank since they’re for coordinates but I see now.
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It also makes sense that it only works for the builtin ones. Thank you

@info-creaticode Alright 😄

@jd131111

We are working on a new way for you to delete old versions of a project.

@info-creaticode Also, if you havent seen my latest post, the signatures have an infinite length, someone can spam and key on their keyboard and press enter to go to a new line, then spam the threads and make it so no one can scroll down.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

We will put that on our list. Thank you.

@sirbots The best I can do rn is to just have them shoot at random bots anywhere on the map based on the coordinates on both teams, sadly. It’s still better than randomly firing at stuff

@sirbots Making great progress! Might have a working system here within the next few hours…minutes even.

@011830-0a42ef84 I was talking about my AI

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

Thank you. We will put that on our list.

Thanks for the explanation, @Catty and @Tyller_

@JD131111 , that arrow button is indeed for using the breakpoint block.

You can look at this wiki page: https://www.forum.creaticode.com/topic/340/debugging-breakpoints

@sirbots

Check out this example program:

play.creaticode.com/projects/67a3c43978886c154e0b60af

Note that its code is written by our AI assistant XO, when it is given the following request:

I have 2 lists of x and y positions of targets, and I need to search among them to find which one is closest to this sprite. Use 2D distance.

For this kind of small coding questions, we strongly recommend you to ask XO to get started. All you need is to clearly describe your needs.

If you are new to working with XO, you can try to use the “TIRE” method for prompting it: https://www.forum.creaticode.com/topic/1785/ai-the-t-i-r-e-prompting-method-difficulty-3

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

This issue has been fixed. Thank you.