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Well, for sin and cos, my Tank Game uses it to go to the correct position. The abs can be used for determining the distance to something (abs of your X to abs of their X). The possibilities are endless with them

17church wrote:

Any chance of a quick example?

Haha, maths was not my best subject, but I do learn quickly once shown how it could be used!

Hmmm, alright, lemme see… Well, here is the tank game:


<change x by( <sin( Xposition of Body
<change y by( <cos( Yposition of Body

Cool, will have a play.

One  more thing: I am working on a team basketball game at the moment, quite hard, but I'm making good progress. I have the user controlling one team, using space bar to pass the ball to another player until it gets to the hoop.

Two questions:
1) Can I get a player (sprite) to pass the ball to the nearest player in his team? I just cant seem to get this one, so at the moment I have them passing in sequence, but that gets boring. I have made the ball follow the mouse pointer which solves that problem but would prefer it to pass to nearest sprite on click.

2) The other team is set to pass in sequence automatically, which I am happy with. I would like there to somehow be intercepts, so I I pass the ball to my player, but an opposition player is in the way then they grab the ball. But it seems like once the command of passing to my own player is in motion it doesnt stop, even if I have told it to stop (if touching...)

Confusing?

17church wrote:

Cool, will have a play.

One  more thing: I am working on a team basketball game at the moment, quite hard, but I'm making good progress. I have the user controlling one team, using space bar to pass the ball to another player until it gets to the hoop.

Two questions:
1) Can I get a player (sprite) to pass the ball to the nearest player in his team? I just cant seem to get this one, so at the moment I have them passing in sequence, but that gets boring. I have made the ball follow the mouse pointer which solves that problem but would prefer it to pass to nearest sprite on click.

2) The other team is set to pass in sequence automatically, which I am happy with. I would like there to somehow be intercepts, so I I pass the ball to my player, but an opposition player is in the way then they grab the ball. But it seems like once the command of passing to my own player is in motion it doesnt stop, even if I have told it to stop (if touching...)

Confusing?

Probably should have started a new thread for this since it pretty much is a new topic...whatever.

Anyway, Blue is correct that the "Distance To" sensor block will be useful in finding the closest player.  You will also find this much easier to do in the next release since you can build a list of distances to players and sort the list to find the closest player.  In the current version, I might instead use a sensing sprite with the Ghost effect set to 100 so it is invisible.  Have the sensing sprite locate on the player passing the ball and have it increase size repeatedly until it contacts another player on your team - that will be the closest player.  It might be a slow technique but it will be fairly easy to code.

Another thing is if you are using Glide blocks to pass the ball, you are not going to be able to intercept them...they go until they get to their final destination.   Instead, you will probably need to use Move blocks in a Repeat Until loop with the exit condition of the loop set up for when the ball touches an enemy player.  Hope that helps.  Sounds like a fun game!