Color sensing block?

Hopscotch Programming Language Evolution
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A feature I’d like to see in Hopscotch is:

Color sensing

I’d use it for this type of project:

Maybe for my platformer, because then I don’t need to have billions of collision code, having a bunch of black colored blocks and color sensing will save time.

Here are some examples of Hopscotch code that could be improved if we had this:

Ugh. Read the top bit, it explains this too!

Here is an example design I’ve made:

Oop. Srry can’t photoshop or anything… you guys get it though… right?

I’ve seen something similar in another programming languages, it looks like this:

Oop. No photo either, it’s in scratch tho…

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#2

I would like this

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#3

Nice idea :wink:

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#4

This i wanted for a long time, tho couldn’t get HS team to find this on HS. Now I can though XD

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#5

So something like “color at x: [any x position] y: [any y position lol it doesn’t matter]?

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#6

Maybe like, [when “self” is touching “color(black)”] or something right!?

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#7

That’s cool! I’ll slap a photoshop together for you if you’d like

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#8

Cool, I’d very much like that

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#9

I like this idea

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#10

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Sorry it’s a little fast but basically When game start check once if touching object then get color from a selection of HSB, RGB or preset colors in hopscotch

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#11

Yes! That works…

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#12

interesting

technically you could do this with values I think

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#13

You could very easily do this with variables rn

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#14

This is probably possible already - in some way - but I feel like a dedicated block would be easier and nicer! :slight_smile:

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#15

Nice idea, but there is one problem.

Unlike in Scratch, Hopscotch has the coding editor on screen at a different time than the stage, so it might be hard to grab colors from characters.

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#16

So it might be hard to detect an object’s color because you don’t know the color?
I don’t see how that might be a problem. If you coded it to set color, you’ll know what that color it set to is. And if you forgot, you can go to that object’s code to figure it out.

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#17

I’m referring to a Scratch feature where you can select a color from the stage kinda simply by moving your picker onto the color and clicking it

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#18

Unless you used a set random color block

Maybe “set color (random), get color (preset color)“ ?

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set var((Self)color) to random(1 to 26) // 26 or how many colors there are I forget
set color var((Self)color)
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#20

How? Why not show how it can be done?

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