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Chunker120

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How to flip sprite horizontal?
« on: May 12, 2013, 04:44:07 pm »
I have an animation in a top-down perspective, but I want the sprite to get flipped horizontal if the player faces east. The sprite class doesn't by default have any methods that would help me achieve that, so how would I go around flipping a sprite horizontally?

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Re: How to flip sprite horizontal?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 05:05:24 pm »
sprite.scale(-1,1);

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Re: How to flip sprite horizontal?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 05:05:52 pm »
probably rotating sprite would be easiest

edit: nvm scaling is even easier then rotating :P

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Re: How to flip sprite horizontal?
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 05:13:59 pm »
edit: nvm scaling is even easier then rotating :P
The operations are not equivalent. Rotating by 180° won't give you the mirror image (the sprite looks upside down). The alternative to scaling is to set the texture rect using a negative width.

By the way, this has been asked many times, please use the forum search before posting.
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