Scratch

I have not Scratch 2.0, but it seems like it would be easy to impliment trigonometric functions into the operators tab. Sine, Cosine and Tangent may seem like unnecesary, obscure mathematical functions, but they have a key use that would open many new animation and game posibilities - they let you put one sprite in a location relative to another sprite. For example:

when gf clicked
forever
set x to <(sprite1 x v) + < <cos (sprite1 direction v)> * [10]> >
set y to <(sprite1 y v)  + < <sin (sprite1 direction v)> * [10]> >
end

A sprite with this script will always be 10 units in front of sprite1, and will maintain that position as sprite1 moves or rotates. Relative position would let you make joints, chains, and all sorts of other connections.

As of now, this can be done by having a sprite's center located at the position you want it to be relative to, and have it point in the same direction as the sprite it is centered on. But this only works for one link, nothing can be relative to the sprite with an off-center center. So add Sine and Cosine (and possibly tangent) to make more things possible!

Last edited by jag97 (2012-12-30 21:12:41)