Updates YOU want to see in Makecode

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You can already put tiles on top of others with the tile util extension.

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im still waiting for this lol

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i wish discobot could be updated to be the one that reviews our posts they would get approved so much fasterā€¦

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Not sure if this is possible but maybe a on sprite kind (kind) overlaps with effect block?

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Posts sometimes taking days to approve is part of the forums

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discobot is a robot, you want a robot to approve our posts? The mods approve them to keep Makecode a safe place, if we had discobot doing that, how would it know what posts are right to approve, and what ones arenā€™t? Yes, our posts take a while to get approved sometimes, but if you want to be a part of this community, you have to be patient, know that the mods are real people who have lives, connections, family, friends, and may not be able to get to your post for a few days.

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The only time a post takes multiple days to approve (or, usually, to get rejected) is because we have a problem with it. On the weekends, in particular, if you post something that is marginally problematic, then itā€™s staying in the queue until Monday for the other moderators to review.

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can we please stop hating on the devs for no reason

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Discobot is not the smartest AI in the world. It doesnā€™t know how to manage and approve posts.

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  • Maybe an extension that gives us a different console layout, so we donā€™t need to use extensions for more functionability? Like, the current setup is modeled after a game boy, but maybe one that looks like a ds, so we can have x and y buttons to use as well. And the unique, bigger screens too! Thatā€™d be so cool! If anyone really wanted to go the mile(if this is even relatively possible), they could adjust the graphics and editor and such to suit the ds games at the time. Of course, this does pose the question of whether( if it is indeed possible) extensions for the ds model may need to be remade or entirely scrapped. But really, just the unique screen setup and more buttons would be an absolute godsend.
  • Better pixel editor options, such as layers, onion skins and the blending version of pixel art.
  • This one seems to be popular, but Iā€™d also like a more expansive music editor, or better yet, importation!
  • Also, maybe access to the sprites available in tutorials as well?
  • This one might be a tad specific, though helpful for the games meant on makecode arcadeā€“a random tilemap generator?
  • Iā€™m not sure if this exists, but something that changes the layout of the mini menus. I get it, their supposed to be mini. But , what if I want something a bit like zelda or pokemon menu-wise, where everything has images, descriptions, item counts and it looks aesthetic and stuff. It could also adjust the look of ui things, such as the prebuilt score and life variables.
  • This might be a stretch here, but a ā€œvisual novelā€ extension? It works a bit like the cutscene or adventure extension, but includes things like character icons in text, text boxes and fonts, scene layouts, branching paths, fastforward, pause, save and load, and TRANSITION EFFECTS, I dunno maybe get fancy with a little lipsyncing to text length.
  • Adjustments to the raycasting extension. You canā€™t place visible floors, only walls, but then players are walking on a blank area. This shouldnā€™t really require additional extensions for a ceiling and a floor, as its all technically considered raycasting, no? Also, this might need to be a separate extension from the actual raycasting, but something to make individual character sprite and item arts look especially nice. Letā€™s say I place a happy townsperson npc. Their smiling face is visible both back and front. A treasure chest. They often donā€™t come as perfect rectangles, yet the raycasting makes them blocky. Or, you want a nice bush or flower to pop out of your very 2d looking environment without it towering over the character in all its blocky superiorness. You know what would solve this? An editor or image extension of some sort to make objects and characters look nice. I understand this may not even be possible, but itā€™d be super super awesome for making games using raycasting look like those old games.
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C H A O S B O T ACTIVATe

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Thereā€™s a ray casting extension with floors and walls made by codezone Iā€™ll get back to the res rod the post on my computer
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In the ā€œvisual novelā€ area what do you mean by saving and loading as a guy who can make semi complicated extensions like my semi functional pxt color fork I could try to make it if I understand it clearer
The pxt upgrade would be so unbelievably laggy with those features it would be unusable on anything g other than a pc with 1 million dollars worth of ram
Their is onion skin in the animation editor it is those 3 layer diamonds at the bottom near the animation size changing thing

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K another thing addressing this importing will be hard as that is implemented in some external tools like Richardā€™s very own midi convertor
Also you can access the tutorial sprites by going into the pxt.json in the js editor(make a backup) and looking around for the asset pack in the tutorial it should be in section with stuff like https GitHub.com links and stuff I havenā€™t opened the json in a while

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Iā€™m hoping to make a cool new ui extension with stuff like the mini menu upgrade and stuff also for the ds type thing I know this doesnā€™t actually add new buttons to the sim but use browser events itā€™s that also the screen change function that you have to copy and paste into js changes the screen size

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Also well written post great ideas good knowledge of the editor and extensions asking for some hard to add features marking them accordingly with this may be hard and also things that a MakeCode extension coder could make

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i said a few days as an exaggeration

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you could use the browser events extension, assuming your on a computer/have a keyboard

that would be easier if makecode made namespaces in blocks and, but in js you can do:

namespace userconfig { 
    export const ARCADE_SCREEN_WIDTH = 120
    export const ARCADE_SCREEN_WIDTH = 160
}

I think you could do that with multiple sprites, but there are probably some better methods

that does exist (Pls add onion skinning!1!1!1!1 :(((( - #5 by Iro)

You could make your own, I wouldnā€™t imagen it to be too hard.

this is only to show that a lot of the things that you suggested already exist, its not to make you feel bad or anything. A lot of the suggestions you made were good ones, like this one, ā€œhappy townsperson npc. Their smiling face is visible both back and front.ā€

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@kirbob im not hating on them :sob:

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You can?

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These are all PERFECT ideas!

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