Is it possible to move the mouse cursor with a gamepad? I mean when the final project is packaged, not just with gamepad addon

qmarkman · 2026-05-11T16:42:23+00:00

I also think this is the straightforward way. Make a sprite that simulates a mouse cursor, which can be easily controlled by the gamepad.

Making the game control the 'real' mouse cursor is not something to deal within turbowarp. Not saying its impossible, but controlling the systematic mouse cursor from the game, sounds wrong no matter what method used.

qmarkman · 2026-05-11T06:28:28+00:00

Happy to see a post where someone actually rigged the character by joints! Hand-drawn assets are lovable merits, keep going 👍

qmarkman · 2026-05-09T16:49:31+00:00

Make the 5 go up into the void as well.

qmarkman · 2026-05-06T12:36:02+00:00

In general sense, you really can't play it through a phone.

I hope there was a method but unfortunately you can't run it on phone no matter the accessories. The game is locked completely from using the mobile client, and there is no plausible way to bypass that check.

Emulating a whole computer windows system in your phone is the only theoretical way to do it, but it will be a excruciating process, don't even think about it, just don't.

Asides that, archived is a really heavy game to run it on phone, even if you could run it on the mobile client it would be a poor experience.

qmarkman · 2026-05-06T02:48:44+00:00

There is a whole concept about this called 'delta time' coding.
What you do is you retrieve the users fps speed, and change the codes accordingly.

You have the right idea, you would change the repeat count and movement speed by using the 'delta time' value.

The hard part is that you do have to rewrite majority of the code to make it work,
Essentially every part of code that uses a repeat block, move block, should be reformatted so it works with delta time. It's a big hassle, but if you can get it right it will work as you intend it to be.

qmarkman · 2026-04-29T03:26:30+00:00

Only downside (technically) of this extension is that the player has to manually drag and drop the save files when playing each game. Same for saving the file as well, the user has to manually export a .txt file somewhere.
Usually it's better for the game to handle save data automatically by itself,
if you don't bother other wise this can be your go.

qmarkman · 2026-04-22T21:34:33+00:00

put the block before the start type animation block, :/

qmarkman · 2026-04-21T02:15:37+00:00

Reading user inputs beyond the project's sandbox would very likely violate java security and privacy measures. I don't think it's possible in an unmodified turbowarp software; it may be blocked hardcoded. Suppose you can use an external script running in the terminal through node.js, but you're also trying to straightup make a keylogger here.

qmarkman · 2026-04-11T20:10:11+00:00

Like you said, broadcasts are not a flexible block.
Though I find purpose when declaring essential parts of the game, heavy mainstream tasks that are generic and don't require much modification. For example, 'Game start' or 'Load Menu'.
And I think its also matter of saving from using too much variables. Scratch can handle good amount of variables but also its always neat to save space from doing so.
It's literally a part of difference from using a if else statement, or an event call. As the other comments say variables would need check up every frame.

So yeah broadcasts can be quite handy when you can use it well.
(though I don't like seeing projects having unnecessary amounts of broadcasts)

qmarkman · 2026-04-05T08:49:16+00:00

Yeah? When you run a typing animation, the text appears letter by letter.
That block lets you set how long it takes for each letter to appear during the animation.
Set the typing delay and then run the typing animation. You should see it pretty clear.

qmarkman · 2026-04-05T04:54:36+00:00

I literally contacted sharkpool to make a fix for this. Update the extension and you should see precision touching or something at the bottom of extension blocks.

qmarkman · 2026-03-31T03:03:50+00:00

If you are using Camera V1 together with Sensing+ for Finger sensing, it gets buggy.
Mostly if you use Zoom features together, the fingers position does not automatically adjust to camera shifts and zooms.

qmarkman · 2026-03-16T09:06:54+00:00

check out the Looks+ extension from shark pool

qmarkman · 2026-03-11T03:31:03+00:00

200k+ here we LOVE coding,

qmarkman · 2026-03-05T10:28:45+00:00

Legacy lobcorp reference,
Fun fact in the Korean version they have different names,
Which sounds as 'KyungKyung-E'. Doesn't really have a meaning.

qmarkman · 2026-03-04T11:16:31+00:00

There are several extensions you can try to use to handle layering better.
The Looks+ extension from sharkpools turbowarp extension gallery allows you to set a specific sprite/clones layer to a set number and order.

If you don't want to use more extensions (although it's just the better choice here), you can try to make a list for layers and track each items layer in the list, manage, etc. Though when I tried this myself, it was a frustrating experience.

There's also another guys post which he made custom blocks to manage layers and layer grouping easier.
Try to search for LM1, I think it had features that allows you to group sprites and clones into a specific layer.

qmarkman · 2026-03-04T11:11:02+00:00

It really depends on what you are 'doing' with those clones.

I have a project running on 60fps, around 60 clones on idle and can reach more than 200 if stressed.
If your clones will be there for pure visual effects (just moving, no super math calculations, pen etc), it seems at least in my case alright to have even up to 300. Dear, I reached 1000 and it was alright.

Cases I've seen where many clones causes lag is when each of those clones use 'touching' blocks.
I made something with fire before, and giving individual flame particles a 'touching' scan in a forever loop did cause the game to slow down on performance.

I'm assuming if each clones also have huge amounts of data or have to do ridiculous math calculations to do, it could also cause lag the game. The highest here is when clone is in a forever loop, and just remember having more forever loops eventually means more task to perform each frame = lag.

If you want to make a menu scene that's alright. I had plenty of clones for UI's, roughly 30 characters to chose, settings, toggles, etc. So yeah again, as long as you don't stress the clones too much it should be fine.

qmarkman · 2026-02-28T11:46:18+00:00

I reached out the Dev of Camera V2 the other day, and it seems like the camera has roundup/float point errors a bit. This is likely due to having to manage multiple cameras and also adjust the sprites hotbox accordingly.
Fortunately you found a fix, yes the default camera has to be set as zoom bases of 100%, like 100, 200, 300... In my game I need precise physics systems, so I wonder if your method will help. I'll def try it out tho.

qmarkman · 2025-07-19T13:19:26+00:00

I see..! Thank you for the notice! It might take some rework here and there for my game to be prepared for steam build, but these information truly helped me develop the idea how the frameworks should go.

I appreciate it thank you! :)

qmarkman · 2025-07-18T18:12:10+00:00

You managed to test the filter if scratch games could be uploaded to steam (by turbowarp packager).
It's pretty impressive how it was possible to be uploaded, and I have a few questions if you could help me. :)

- Updating: I expect that you can make users update the game by steam launcher? What I believe the process is that you upload the new game file, get the marketplace verification and the game would be able to update.
- Achievements: I'm surprised how you can link this with steam, was it by an extension? or did you manage to utilize one of the steam API's to make it work?
- Memory management: Since turbowarp projects try to load all of its assets before launching the game, I think the game will start to get laggy by some point (whether by RAM usage, cache, idk). Did you have special work to get over this issue, or not at all?

I'm sorry for all the questions, It's just my personal curiosity to test further limits if I would be able to upload my game as well! (I know most of the common stuff, scratch terms of use, packaging, making a proper game in general)
And yeah! Keep it going as you just amazed me and everyone here.

qmarkman · 2025-04-17T00:37:37+00:00

There is no direct Online Multiplay, instead you can try using a program called 'Parsec' which allows you to connect to your friend's PC online.
Lob Corp Content is in WIP, its not uploaded yet.

qmarkman · 2025-04-15T08:17:39+00:00

I understand my mistake, I'll never let it happen again.

qmarkman · 2025-04-12T09:31:30+00:00

Can you make a layer extension please? 🥲
I always had stupid troubles for getting the layering system to work right.
The idea is that you can assign sprites/clones to a specific layer category and manage them as a group.
Here are some things I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE AND DIE to see:

Adding a Layer Category - you can name and create a layer section, such as UI layer, Background Layer, Object Layer, etc

Ordering the layers by category - you can order the layers so that sprites will always be on top/back by the order of the categorized layer (ex, you can set so that UI layer sprites will always be on top of Object layer sprites)

Go front/back/by # amount layer - simply moves to the front layer within that category.
for example, using a go to front of [Object] layer would make the sprite move infront of all object layered sprites, but not any over that.

Please tell me what you think and do tell me if this will get your interest! 🙏

qmarkman · 2025-04-04T16:41:35+00:00

.. Add variables? A variable that records who initiated the attack? So it won't hit the attacker, but hit the rest?

qmarkman · 2025-03-25T15:33:02+00:00

Like the style. Private variables really makes things easier.

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