scratch bounce then upside down - image

Above you can see my Scratch workspace where the ship on the left is upside down when it is running, and IT IS THE SAME CODE.
Is it a bug of scratch or some kind of other problem?

Make sure that the sprite is set to don't rotate in the info tab
Alternatively, you can add the set rotation style to (don't rotate).
It will make the sprite no longer rotate all around.
Otherwise, if you want to make it look like it is walking rather than just looking in a direction while walking, replace the parameter don't rotate to left-right

I use Scratch 2 for kids programming classes and as a beginner at this object, at first I had the same problem that confused me a lot as to what would provoke the Sprite to turn around.
It turned out that Scratch makes the character rotate when it bounces off the edge (I guess that the reason is not functional).
Anyway to solve it I added the move->set rotation style (don't rotate) before (the position doesn't matter, could as well place it after) the if on edge bounce block.

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Unity -- 2d platformer sprite animation in different position

I'm trying to make a simple 2D platformer game. So I got the walking and idle animations working for my sprite, but for some reason when it transitions to the run animation, the sprite is a little off the ground? Does anyone know how I could fix this?
The sprite looks like this in the two animations:
idle:
run:
There's a number of things this could be. Here's some things to consider.
Ensure that the location of the sprite hasn't changed. Do this by looking in the inspector.
Look at the anchor point for each sprite, and make sure they are at the same point.
Check for size differences.
Make sure the sprite is cropped correctly
Look at the animation state diagram to see if an unusual state change occurred.
I'm sure I could find more possible causes, but the bottom line is, take a look at everything you can think of that might be causing the issue. If you've tried that, then look around and see what else you can see. Finally, if that doesn't work, try asking here with everything you've tried included.
I had this problem too and just fixed it. it's actually simple. What causes this is the pivot of your Sprites. You have to go back to the sprite editor and set the privot of your sprites to the same value and that's it.

Clip (don't render) anything outside of a cube / box, like Godus

I've been trying to work out how to clip / not render anything that falls outside of a box, exactly like how Godus works (pictured below: notice the clipping at the back)…
Originally, I experimented with constructive solid geometry (CSG) to manually split and clip every object that falls on the box boundary. However, this is hugely computationally intensive and isn't feasible for a system where I want to be able to scroll around and have the clipped area update in realtime.
Is there a way to achieve this in a way that runs in realtime without modification of the objects, perhaps with shaders or something else? I'm new to shaders and still don't quite understand them enough to know how to implement this myself.
I appreciate the help!
Can the camera go outside of the box? If not, just put a big cube around the area you want and give its inside faces a material.
If the camera can go outside of the box (which would be weird, since you'd be able to see through the back of the meshes) one thing you might try is using vertex colors to make all faces outside of your box the same solid color as the background.

How to collide .fbx animation in Unity

I am new to unity. I have two animation in .fbx format.They can move..Now i want when both will collide with each other a sound will produce.Is there any idea how i will do this.Thanks in advance
I think you need to read about how Physics work, and then how Trigger-Events and Colission detection is handled.
Read this here, and this. The first one gives you insight on how the Unity engine works. The latter provides a video tutorial on how to do Collision Detection.
If you don't want to do that and just want the code, I found this on a quick Google:
var crashSound : AudioClip; // set this to your sound in the inspector function
OnCollisionEnter (collision : Collision) {
// next line requires an AudioSource component on this gameobject5.
audio.PlayOneShot(crashSound);
}
You can add a MeshCollider to the fbx meshes. Anyway, this is not a good idea because this will cause performance issues.
You can create an empty gameobject for each character, and add to them: the fbx animation and a simple collider (some cube, sphere, capsule, etc). Then, when you use a script for them, you attach it to the parent object and from there you handle the whole thing.
If you want that the collider moves from specific places from the animation (Like the punch movement, or a kick),then you can ask to your 3D animator/modeler to add a simple mesh on that points. For example, a sphere on one punch, which will move with the animation. Then, in Unity, you will hide the mesh of the sphere but add a mesh collider to it. :)
Hope it helps!
Most of the time, if you apply an animation to an object then you'll loose the physics reaction. Don't trust me? See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oINKQUJZc1Q
Obviously, animation are not part of Unity physics. Think about it... Unity physics decide position and rotation of objects accordingly to Newton and friends laws. How do you think these laws can accord to a keyframe arbitrary animation? They can't: hence the crazy results you get when you try.
How to solve it? Use Unity physics also for animation: learn to master rigidbody.AddForce and all the other stuff described here.
You may always want to keep the physics and the animation separated. That's how you get out of trouble.
If you really want to know: here's my personal experience on how to mediate physics with animation.
Sometimes, even binding a simple parameter to the physics and another
to an animation (or a script which mediates user input) may result in
catastrophic results. I've made a starship: rotation controller by
user mouse (by flagging "block rigidbody rotation"), direction and
speed by physics. It was inside a box collider. Imagine what happens
if a cube, orientated by a few degrees angles, meets a flat ground: it
should fall and rotate until one of the faces lays completely on the
ground. This was impossible, as I blocked any physics interaction with
the rotation of the body: as a result the box wanted to get flat on
the ground but couldn't. This tension eventually made it move forward
forever: something impossible in real world. To mediate this error,
I've made the "block rotation" parameter change dynamically according
to the user input: as the ship is moving the rotation is controlled by
the user but as soon as the user stop controlling the ship the
rotation parameter is given back to the physics engine. Another
solution would be to cast a ray down the collider, check if the ground
is near and avoid collisions if the ship is not moving (this is how
the banshee in Halo Combat Evolved is controlled, I think). When
playing videogames, always have a look at how your user input is
mediated into the physics engine: you may discover things which a
normal player normally wouldn't notice.

How to rotate/mirror a 3d animation?

I currently have a FBX animation model of a biped moving slightly forward (positive Z axis), turning around 180 degrees, and starting to run in the opposite direction (negative Z axis).
However, I would like to completely mirror such animation, in other words, start heading the negative Z axis, and the turning forward the positive Z axis. This, preferably through 3dsMax.
I know what you must be thinking, "Why the hell doesn't he just rotate the transform component/object of his animation character??". Well, unfortunately the current code I am working on depends that the characters movement should be independent of the actual animation, among other limitations.
Apparently, according to our 3d designer here, there is no trivial "Rotate Animation" option in 3dsMax (does that check?), so I am looking for possible scripts that could help me out. Anyone ever heard of such solution? Thanks in advance.
Create a dummy aligned to the root of your model.
Link the root of the model to that dummy.
With only the dummy selected, click the mirror button on the maintoolbar.
This will create a mirror image of the bones along with the animation on those bones. The only caveat is the names of the bones will also be mirrored. eg. the arm called 'right_arm' is now now on the left side.
If you need to preserve the animations to the original bones, look into using the animation mixer. This allows loading and saving animations onto characters. But it also has object mapping feature that allows objects of different names to load on saved animations.
So create a mapping. Save the mirrored animation. And load it back onto the original bones with that mapping.

CALayer obstacles?

I am putting together a 2d RPG in Cocoa just for learning and for fun.
I've got the sprite moving around and animating just fine... but not sure how to approach making obstacles. Take for example Mt. Zozo here. I don't want Setzer falling off a cliff, or climbing up on those dangerous looking rocks!
I was thinking that I might have to draw in some layers where I don't want him to move and put some code in my move keydown methods that test that the resulting position doesn't contain a point that is also contained by an 'obstacle' layer. But that seems really not generic and a lot of work.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
In the end, pretty simple.
Remember that I am using a 32x32 px grid for sprite movement.
Just put down layers wherever you don't want the character to move, and then when adding possible the movement tiles, test if the position of the movement tile is the same as the obstacle.
if (upOne.position.x == obstacle.position.x && upOne.position.y == obstacle.position.y)
upOne.hidden = YES;
I tried using contains point but that was problematic. Anyways, this worked :)

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