Animation drawing?

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Surgeon
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Animation drawing?

Post by Surgeon »

Hey!

I've been trying löve for the past few days and I can't seem to find a way to draw an animation inverted in relation to the Yy axis. Do I have to have separate animations for left/right facing character?

Thanks! :awesome:
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Robin
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Re: Animation drawing?

Post by Robin »

Hi!

See love.graphics.draw. If the fifth argument (sx) is negative, it is flipped horizontally, so you can do something like:

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love.graphics.draw(something.image, something.x, something.y, 0, something.dx < 0 and -1 or 1)
Hope that helps. :)
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Re: Animation drawing?

Post by coffee »

Surgeon wrote:Hey!

I've been trying löve for the past few days and I can't seem to find a way to draw an animation inverted in relation to the Yy axis. Do I have to have separate animations for left/right facing character?

Thanks! :awesome:
Also too more things to what robin said. Remember that flipping the image isn't good if let's say you character isn't a symmetrical Image. if you have an sword in right hand flipping/inverting will show sword then in left hand.

Also remember that LOVE don't do image animation as default (like using a GIF). You will need to use some animation library or create a simple one of ours.
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Re: Animation drawing?

Post by juno »

In relation to what coffee wrote..
If you have a character which is non symmetrical and is made up of >1 shapes, when it is flipped, the shape, body, fixtures dont flip with the image. Does anyone have a solution to this?
wat ya mean she's in another castle!?
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