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^^ also the little button on top breaks constantly lol

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Fire tablets with an error bring up the Android restore. On youtube it thinks it is Android

Is a fire tablet built on Android???

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i believe so, but im not positive

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I read you have experience using Unity.
Is there code in C# like “Floor” to detect if an object has ground or anything beneath it?
I made a “Ray” that extends from an objects centre down till it just pokes beneath the object.
So when the ray is touching anything other than the Object it’s attached to and a button is tapped, the object will jump.
This seems to be working well to detect if the host Objects touching the ground or whatever beneath it.

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Disclaimer: I know a little bit about Unity but I’m not an expert with it (I haven’t used it as much as other engines and libraries).
What I do know (both from prior knowledge of other engines and a video I just watched) is that your raycasting method should be pretty consistent! There’s a good video about it from Code Monkey on YouTube if you need a good reference.

TL;DR on the things I learned from that video:

  • You can handle collision by pointing a ray downwards towards a platform, with a specific distance (long enough to hit the platform and pass through your player’s collision box if needed).
  • Make sure to split your scene into layers (one for the player/its collider, and one for the level collision) so you only raytrace the level layer.
  • Use a Boxcast instead of a Raycast so your player can stand on the edge of platforms.

I wish youluck!

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I have a computer intended for Windows 7

It’s been through 8, 8.something,10.

I’m not updating it to 11 because, it can’t even load into playing a roblox game without taking minimun 1 minute. I don’t and won’t use it anymore

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Could you please help me?
I want an object called BALL to continuously set a random position between x positions 0 to 1000, and Y positions 0 to 1000.
Could you please copy and edit this code with the changes needed to do this?
I don’t need scale or rotation code.

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Is this code you wrote?

  • Math.random() * (maxX -minX) + minX looks correct to me.

  • First, it looks like you’d want a new function to modify an entity instead of creating one

  • If you want something to continuously be set, you’d usually use something like requestAnimationFrame (do a quick search to learn more about that).

  • In the animation frame tick function (part of requestAnimationFrame if you look that up), you can set the attributes Min/Max X/Y to what you want the min and max to be, then call the updateEntity function.

  • Inside the updateEntity function, you could do ent.setPosition(randomX, randomY, 0), where randomX and randomY are the same as in the signal function

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Thanks, i’ll try and do what you said.

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Yes, Fire devices use a custom Android ROM. I remember I had a Kindle Fire a while back and my dad showed me how to put Glazed ICS (a more standard ROM) on it. My mind was blown haha

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lol a robot just coded ping pong for me

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wow thats so cool

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Is iOS 16 any good? :thinking:
Can you use any font for the lock screen or just a few?

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unfortunately just a few, 8 if i remember well (maybe 10, but you get the idea youre very limited)

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also how?? Robot coding games would be so fun

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I discovered a few tricks with Shortcuts, especially with Calculate Expression.

  • + is addition
  • - is subtraction
  • * is multiplication
  • / is division
  • floor is floor (obviously)
  • ceil is ceiling
  • ^ is power
  • % is modulo
  • sqrt is square root
  • cbrt is cube root
  • sin, cos, and tan are Sine, Cosine, and Tangent respectively
  • sinh, cosh, and tanh are Hyperbolic Sine, Hyperbolic Cosine, and Hyperbolic Tangent
  • pi is the literal pi (3.14159265358979)
  • e is Euler’s number
  • log is logarithm
  • ln is Natural Log
  • ! is factorial
  • E is x10^x (case sensitive)
  • () is a group (for PEMDAS)

There’s are all symbols I found that works.

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  • fmod(a, b) is also modulo
  • fabs(a) = absolute value
  • rint(a) = round
  • integer is integer (obviously) same as floor(a)
  • precision=# returns a fixed number (precision=2 pi returns 3.14)
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Processing.js is a direct import of Processing to javascript. I don’t know if I should learn p5.js or Processing. I’ll probably try Processing because it is related to java which I have never learnt. There is also openprocessing.org.

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Processing.js was archived a couple years ago. That means that they stopped working on Processing.js, so I’d recommend learning p5.js instead! It doesn’t have that many differences from Processing.

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Maybe I’ll learn both so when i code in js and java i can add them to libraries.

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