Square trail block?

So, Ι had an idea.

As we all know, trails are circular. This makes it difficult to make square pixels for trail art. But, what if there was really a simple solution to this?

Ι propose we have 2 different types of trail art blocks. One, will be the type we have now, except instead of saying “Draw a trail” it will say “Draw a circular trail”. Then, there will be a second block, that says “Draw a rectangular trail” and will function similarly to circular, except with a square trail. It will sort of look like drawing with a highlighter.

Ι think it would be a cool solution instead of complicated strings of code. It would make pixel art fun and easy for even beginners to Hopscotch coding.

What do y’all think?

@Leaders?

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I think that will actually be quite useful! Thanks for bringing this up! :blush:

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This.

Would be.

A game changer.

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This would be amazing, but I was thinking something like this: (Ignore the move forward block)

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yeah, that’s what i was sort of thinking

this is really cool i wasn’t even thinking of all shapes!

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Yeah you could leave a trail with triangle ends!

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The brush shape section is just like a set image block. You pick the shape you want! (I made it with Æ’s JSON Edit.)

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yeah that’s cool!

it could make all sorts of things easier, like trails behind objects (like in geometry dash decreasing visibility) and add a new kind of cool trail art

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Yeah, definitely.
(Sorry, gtg.)

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Nice JSON editor

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Yeah this would be a relatively nice addition though triangles would be tough

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Thanks! :smile:
(We should gbot)

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What do you mean by ‘tough’? Do you mean it would be hard to code?

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This is an awesome idea!

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Like would it be triangles at the end like this
<—————->
Or just triangles like this
<><><><><><><><><><><>

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or like this

<===============|

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I reckon you might be able to change the angle of the brush shape, and then it would either be like this:
<=====] or like this [=====>
It might also be on a 45˚ angle, which is hard to represent with text.

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yeah

i get what you mean

i was trying to represent like a bunch of overlapped triangles

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yes that’d be amazing and it be much better to make color wheels

@Stylishpoopemoji33

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That’s what I was thinking. The current one is a whole bunch of circles, but with a different shape it would be a line of what shape you select! :smile:

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