# Is there any way to make Y positive when going UP?

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**Created:** [February 6, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-make-y-positive-when-going-up/251266 "2008-02-06T18:57:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![oldmanwinter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b38774/32.png) [@oldmanwinter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/oldmanwinter)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-make-y-positive-when-going-up/251266/1 "2008-02-06T18:57:02Z")

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does anyone else find it annoying as hell that flash considers going towards the top of the screen to be the negative direction? it can make working with trig functions a nightmare, and i’m about to start working on a game where i’m going to be using a ton of trig… is there any sort of options menu or something in flash which switchs the direction of the y axis?