How to mirror a single sprite in an animation

[thorntonp72]

Hi,

 

I was wondering if there was a way to mirror single sprites within my animations so as to avoid having to create the same image twice or 3 times in gimp then use a character map? I.E. use one image, copy it then flip that image in the ide.

 

I can rotate the image and make it bigger or larger just not flip horizontally or vertically.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[Mike at BrashMonkey]

Hi thorntonp72,

 

You can change the images x scale to -1 and that should flip it horizontally.  Just be careful, if its not flipped on another key frames the flip will tween...to fix this you'd need to set it's previous keyframe to instant mode instead of linear tweaking so that its x scale doesn't tween.

 

cheers,
Mike at BrashMonkey

[thorntonp72]

Hi Mike,

 

Thanks for the information. I will try that tonight. It will save me a lot of time if it works.

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

[thorntonp72]

Yup. That works like a treat. Thanks!