As me and @CattyPlayzy have recently become forum moderators, we have locked, deleted, and purged over 60+ topics of spam coming from @Black-Cat and @Lilly-123, @Lilly-Alt. We have also found extremely inappropriate content posted a while ago by one of those spammers. We together are making this announcement to say that we are going to crack down against inappropriate and spam content because such degenerate filth is NOT allowed or welcome on this platform.

Catty’s part:
Yes. We are going to do our best to make this forum as safe as possible. We will scrape every little piece of garbage off this platform, and keep it as welcoming as possible to new K-12 users. Thank you for reading this.

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Work done as of writing this (Sep 22)

• Catty has gotten multiple accounts created with bad intentions obliterated.

• Jeff has deleted many spam topics to keep questions on this forum mostly relevant to CreatiCode and coding.

• Catty has locked so many topics.

• Jeff went through old deleted topics and found bad stuff and also did some purging

• Catty is the reason moderators now have dedicated and organized topics for discussing moderation and issues.

• Both Jeff and Catty are the reason Shrukin and Lily behave more and are helpful to this forum, as well as this forum now being safer.

• Catty has helped find major issues with the forums, and how it affects the safety of our users in a bad way.

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What you can do to help keep these forums clean and not to get your posts deleted

• If you see someone breaking a major rule or doing something like posting inappropriate topics or images, both here and on CreatiCode, then report those to us and CreatiCode with links. We can only moderate things on this forum Incorrect, we only moderate Help, Test, General Discussion, Project Showcase, and Feedback, so any inappropriate/egregious projects will be forwarded to them as well.

• Use the right categories. It is annoying when someone posts something in Live Books instead of Feedback or Help or General Discussion.

• Stay on-topic. Do not go off-topic, post links to other sites (that could be or are potentially bad) like GimKit or Discord, and/or use topics as chatrooms. These forums are for if you need help with CreatiCode/coding, ideas with coding, discussions about coding, want to give feedback/report bugs about CreatiCode, and anything related to that. We will delete or lock topics that break this rule and if you are annoying and break this rule many times, you will suffer consequences.

• Do not post anything inappropriate. This should go without saying, but we’ll also talk about a part that some people have struggled with in the past: make sure that images you post of characters or people aren’t overly suggestive. While an image could be considered appropriate because it doesn’t contain nudity, our standards are different, and clothed characters also break this rule, like female characters with unnaturally large breasts, and also fetishes.
  Catty’s note on this - Please make sure if you have female characters with unnaturally large breasts that you cover them up COMPLETELY, or lower the size. Either way, cover them up completely (the stomach is fine) to avoid consequences.

• Help new users follow the rules. They may have not read the forum rules yet, so point them to there.

• Chatroom clarification: it depends, but chats that are CC-related (like discussing making projects and ideas and sharing ideas/work) are okay, but doing more talking like you’re having a conversation with a friend should be kept to a minimum. A chatroom project has been made by CreatiCode so use that

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In the block you get shown a list of the available avatars:

However, there is an issue. There are some avatars that are possible to get with this block, but aren’t shown in the selection list thingie above. For example, the avatars Spiderman and Jotaru Kujo aren’t shown in the list selection thingies above, but if you go to the search bar and type out their names, they will then pop up.
If this avatar selection list could show all of the avatars, that would be great.

@106809nes oh cool, this is what you normally do in Scratch. Basically just gotta check forever if the player is not touching the ground. If not, you have to change y by a negative value like -0.5 until they are touching the ground. Good tutorial tho

A reporter block that can make text backwards (blue -> eulb) would be useful. The XO assistant works for me now so it isn’t really an issue, but I feel like it’d be better and easier if this were just one reporter block, since it feels like a waste of code to make a whole for-each loop to loop through every single letter and make annoying temporary variables and all that stuff.

I know that these might not be used very often, but other blocks that can transform/encode text would be awesome, like some examples:

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• ROT13 encryption: ROT13 is a simple encoding method usually used for fun and puzzles that turns every letter in a string to the 13th letter after it in the English alphabet. This picture explains it well:

* cowsay and other ASCII art things: You provide text like "Why did the chicken cross the road? (line break) To get to the other side!", and then the reporter block returns it to you in ASCII art with a cow or other options saying it in a speech or thought bubble. Examples:

Cow:

 ________________________________________
/ Why did the chicken cross the road?    \
\ To get to the other side!              /
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Tux the Linux penguin mascot:

 _________________________________________
/ You are only young once, but you can    \
\ stay immature indefinitely.             /
 -----------------------------------------
   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/

And more info about it can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay

• Reporter blocks to encode/convert characters for to make them suitable in URLs or specific cases: for example, take a look at https://www.google.com/search?q=creaticode+website . Because URLs can’t handle spaces, they will use a + or another character I forgot. Like when you Google “$”, the $ gets turned into %24 when its in the URL. Having blocks for decoding/encoding in formats like base 64 would also be useful, say if you have the user intentionally upload a “text” file that actually isn’t text and is a .PNG image renamed to .txt and then show the user that image by showing the data URI of that image as the URL in a widget.
• Doing things with words, like finding the dictionary definition(s) of a word and returning it in a table, finding synonyms of the possible meanings of the word and returning a table (ex: “light” would have synonyms regarding weight (portable, lightweight) and ones regarding actual light (luminosity, radiance) ).

Has anyone made a multiplayer 3D game, and if so, could they share it?
I wanna use some good code or a good project as a starting point for my super big project.

I think a block to alphabetize a list would be really useful. Here is an example of what it could look like:

This block should replace the list selected (in order A-Z or Z-A) with its alphabetized version.
And maybe an operator-kind too:

This should return the list provided but in alphabetical order.
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Or maybe just add A-Z and Z-A as new options for the sort list block:

These should also have an equivalent for tables too.

@info-creaticode Hm, ok. I should try to make one by myself in the meantime. I feel like it would be very resource intensive and/or laggy though because you’d have to broadcast a message to the world everytime there’s something others should see, like if one player is moving around, they would have to send a message like every millisecond so that other users would see that person moving.

@info-creaticode wait really? oh okay. I think small to large is a bit confusing because I thought it referred to numbers. The wording should probably be made a bit clearer. Thank you for the response lol I didn’t realize this already existed

@info-creaticode Oooo got it, I will try to develop something got it.

@info-creaticode I believe they meant button widget blocks that allow you to download files and upload files. These would be pretty useful, like for saving your game data (like coins and whatnot) to a text file on your computer rather than on the cloud as a preference. Uploading files would also be pretty useful too.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail thank you guys for adding that in I just saw it gives the full code now

@info-creaticode it works and it’s great, but could you make it so it returns the full webpage html code instead of just the <body> tag? I also wanna see the <head> tag for getting things like the title of the site and metadata. I’m thinking of now designing my websites so they have special metadata that when used in my CreatiCode web browser, they can have stuff like extra permissions and customizability and whatnot.

@info-creaticode thank you

@info-creaticode Oh that’s a good idea! Thank you!

@info-creaticode Ah ok, but could you also make it support “view-source:” as well at least or just another block that will return the exact code?

I’m aware that you guys are still working on fixing this block to “show dynamic content” and that makes sense, but could you guys instead introduce a new block for static content so that I can access APIs and stuff? I recently found out there’s a dog API to get information on dog breeds and to get pictures of dogs and I have a key and know which endpoints to use (luckily mostly via GET which is what a fetch does) but I can’t use them in CreatiCode because this still doesn’t work.

It does work for sites like my website and but fails when it comes into contact with things returned as text or JSON or websites that may have code too complicated like indeed.com when I wanna analyse job hirings and stuff like that. The issue with Indeed may actually be that it’s too dynamic due to it using your location to show jobs near you but that’s not the point.

The new block to just get (generally static) page and non-page (like text files) data could look like this:

and if the indeed.com issue is a concern for you guys, then maybe they both could have extra parameter that specifies extra information to personalize page content:

in these parameters, the user agent is that of a Chromebook and the location (lat & long) is London, UK. Maybe user agent might be a stretch but the location would surely be useful for somewhat fixing the issue. It’s also probably not worth fixing if it doesn’t work after that since it might think CreatiCode is a bot (as it is) and might not want it scraping its pages, so we should respect its wishes.

NOTICE: This tutorial below works for both CreatiCode and Scratch (or any Scratch fork/mod like Turbowarp) because this doesn’t take advantage of any CreatiCode-specific features.
Tutorial difficulty: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Does it ever bother you that you’re limited in the fonts you can use when you use the costume/backdrop editor? Well I have a somewhat advanced hack that I’m going to teach you today to use fonts like Arial and whatnot. I’m also going to show you some text/emoji tips and tricks at the end which ties into this.

Step 1

First, in any project (preferably a new project or one of your own projects), open up the costume/backdrop editor, then make a new costume (or backdrop if you’re in the Stage).

Step 2

Now make a new textbox with some example text like “Hello World!” and then set the font to something like “Marker” or “Pixel” so it’s easily recognizable and hard to miss. For performing this trick, it would also be best if you just have this textbox as the only element/thing (which is why I had you make a new costume/backdrop so it’s just a blank canvas) since having anything more might make this a bit harder.

Step 3

Now, export your simple costume/backdrop by right-clicking on the costume and export.

Warning: Make sure that when you export, the file ends with .svg. If it isn’t, then that means you must have clicked the “Convert to Bitmap” button and you don’t wanna do that since it just rasterizes the whole thing - converts it to just pixels, which won’t let you change the text afterwards unless you make it all over again.

Step 4

Now, import the SVG file of your costume/backdrop in a text editor app, like Notepad, or a web one. This will force it to show as text in a way that you can edit raw/directly.

Nerd info/fun fact: See, SVG images/vector graphics files are stored as text (if you wanna get technical, it’s XML text), not in pixels and complicated hex codes like PNG images. Therefore you can edit their contents more conveniently.

To make it easier for you, go to this text editor site: https://texteditor.co/
When you get there, ignore all the other junk like advertisements and hit the big blue button that says “Open File From Computer”.
Then select and choose the SVG file that we just exported in Step 3.
You should see this now:

Step 5

You see where it says font-family="Marker"? Well you can change that to get a custom font!
The way fonts work with Scratch/CreatiCode is that the SVG inherits the currently loaded fonts of the current webpage (HTML document) and browser/system, and that list shown at the beginning doesn’t do anything really special other than just use the name of a font, check if it’s supported and that the page/browser has it, and then put that font onto text.

So now, try to replace Marker with any of these fonts below:

• Arial
• Arial Black
• Comic Sans MS, cursive
• cursive (if on Mac/Apple it’s actual cursive, elsewhere, it’s just Comic Sans)
• Garamond
• Verdana
• Tahoma
• Courier New
• monospace
• Wingdings (Wingdings)
• Roboto
• Google Sans (only available for chromebooks/google maybe)
• Calibri
• Lucida Console (windows only)

I’m going to choose “Roboto” but you can choose whichever one you want. Now download the SVG file from the text editor, and then import it into Scratch.

Step 6

If you followed the last step correctly, it should look like this:

Yayyyyy! You did it! So now you have custom fonts that you can use and you can also change what the text says and any other thing like that. This will now allow you to further customize your text and make it more unique.

Tip: You can also use the “Scratch” font on any Scratch playground (including CreatiCode).

Rasterizing text tips (Step 7)

So you are probably already aware that emojis show differently for people on different devices, since those on Apple devices will see different emojis compared to Androids and same for other devices/platforms. Same applies to text fonts, since not everybody has the same fonts on their system!

You can fix this issue by flattening/rasterizing your text whenever you use emojis/uncommon fonts since some people probably won’t see certain fonts that you use and might be confused or feel misled when your game looks weird. You can do this by clicking the “Convert to Bitmap” button to just basically pixelate and unvectorize it:

You can then click this button again as it’ll say “Convert to vector” to turn it back into SVG which is what we like. You probably just want to rasterize your emojis and text so I recommend doing this in a new blank costume and then cutting and pasting the text back in to whatever costume you wanted like so the text is seperate from the background if you have colors or something.

Everybody will see your text the same after you do this because it’s now pixels, not text made by the computer, so now everybody will see your text the same! However making doing this has some drawbacks, like for example, it will probably make some images very pixelated and have a poor quality/resolution which might suck if you have like some HD image, since Scratch isn’t equipped for such quality. You won’t have to worry about this very much when you’re using CreatiCode though, due to the widgets blocks which are a powerful tool and can display images normally.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and found it useful, I will also be porting a project I have on Scratch to here soon that contains “hacked” blocks and backdrops with the custom fonts from this tutorial. When that’s up, you can just skip all these steps and steal the costumes from there, and put 'em in your backpack to use in whatever projects you choose.

(Section below in construction; those tutorials are not written by me yet)

Extra tutorials that expand on this one:

If you wish to learn more of my techniques and methods, I have made more tutorials below:

• Expansion of this tutorial that tells you of the extra things you can do in CreatiCode only
• How to put in more fonts using Opera GX or a Chrome extension (and then rasterize so others can see it)

@011830-0a42ef84 like in flipaclip?

@info-creaticode I fixed it now to use a button lol

@info-creaticode Ohhhh, I didn’t notice that. Thank you for pointing that out, I thought labels and buttons practically did the same thing since they have the same appearance and qualities.