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This documentation was adapted by community user Collin based on the original Chinese documentation for Arkos by the author.

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More Sensing usage

The "More Sensing" extension provides cloud time, more convenient key press detection, and other features.

1. Get Network Time You can retrieve the current cloud time with four options:

• Seconds: Get the number of seconds since 1970. This can be used as a seconds timestamp.
• Days Since 2000: This can be used as a days timestamp.
• Difference from Local Time: Get the discrepancy between cloud time and local time (in seconds). For example, -1.5 means the cloud time is 1.5 seconds slower than the local time. This can be used to determine if the local time has been tampered with.
• ISO Date: The format is like 2024-02-25T20:25:56.217+0800, which can be used with the time calculation extension -6.

If the network is disconnected or the cloud time cannot be retrieved, it returns NaN. The retrieved cloud time has a 5-second cache; the latest value is read only after 5 seconds. Within 5 seconds, the corrected local time is calculated based on the difference between the cloud time and the local time.

2. Time Unit Conversion For example, converting 60 seconds to minutes returns 1:

There are two special options with the following conversion effects:

3. Login Detection Solves the inconvenience of detecting anonymous users.

4. Get Number of Clones Retrieves the current number of clones (this block is also available in the Arkos extension, but it will be hidden in the future).

5. Get Stage Width and Height Retrieves the width and height of the stage.

6. Get All Sprites The result is a JSON list of sprites. There are many extensions that can handle this format, such as the Data Assistant extension.

7. Collision Detection Between sprites Detects whether any two sprites are touching (the second sprite includes clones, while the first sprite only includes the original).

8. Detect if sprite Touches a Point For example, used to detect if a point is on a map obstacle.

9. Detect if sprite Touches a Rectangle (Seems to have limited application scenarios)

10. Detect Coordinates When Point-to-Point Line Touches sprite The result is separated by commas. If there is no intersection, it returns empty. One use case is to detect if there are obstacles between a monster and a player.

11. Detect Coordinates When Ray Hits sprite Can be used to simulate a laser, detecting the coordinates when it hits a wall.

12. Detect if Self is Above a Certain Point Returns false if the sprite is blocked by other sprites, otherwise returns true.

13. Detect sprite Click Both of the following methods can detect sprite clicks, but this extension block has two advantages over the original method:

• It only detects "clicks" on the sprite. If the mouse is held down and dragged from elsewhere onto the sprite, it won't be detected.
• Holding down the mouse won't trigger continuous detection; it only triggers once.
• It only detects clicks on sprites that are not obstructed. Blocked sprites won't trigger a "click."

14. Key Press Detection

15. Color Detection: The last two blocks are for color detection:

• The first block is used to get the color code. This block is also available in the Arkos extension, but it may be hidden in the future.
• The second block is used to get the color code at a specific point, which can be used for creating functions like scanners or color pickers.