Hey Mark, No problem I suppose the method depends on how and what you're using them for.
If you are using them in a game with a game engine or even an engine you are rolling yourself, The general method is to Scale the x in a negative value. like scaleX=-1 , some game engines have an automatic flip horizontal switch especially for reversing animations. Flipping images is common practice in making games, it saves on the overhead of having to have two versions of the same sprite loaded into memory.
If you are using it in a video, then I would assume that your video editor has a way to flip images horizontally.
If you just need the image flipped, You can flip images in most photo preview viewers on most operating systems. My website tool can do this for you in a batch operation.
Yes! Thank you for the reply! Let me grab an asset off the internet and give that -1 scaleX a shot in the game engine I'm using. Appreciate your reply and time, Robert!
You're most welcome, Let me know if you get it working. If you get stuck or need more help and use discord, feel free to ask on the GDS discord. There's lots of friendly people using a broad variety of engines there that might be able to help. I'm not a game developer perse , but I do have some knowledge of 2d game development techniques, I'm always willing to offer my 2 cents.
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Apologies for the noob-ish question but is it easy to reverse these? i.e. Make the penguin walk to the right, not left? Thanks in advance!
Hey Mark, No problem I suppose the method depends on how and what you're using them for.
If you are using them in a game with a game engine or even an engine you are rolling yourself, The general method is to Scale the x in a negative value. like scaleX=-1 , some game engines have an automatic flip horizontal switch especially for reversing animations. Flipping images is common practice in making games, it saves on the overhead of having to have two versions of the same sprite loaded into memory.
If you are using it in a video, then I would assume that your video editor has a way to flip images horizontally.
If you just need the image flipped, You can flip images in most photo preview viewers on most operating systems. My website tool can do this for you in a batch operation.
Does this lead you in the right direction?
Yes! Thank you for the reply! Let me grab an asset off the internet and give that -1 scaleX a shot in the game engine I'm using. Appreciate your reply and time, Robert!
You're most welcome, Let me know if you get it working. If you get stuck or need more help and use discord, feel free to ask on the GDS discord. There's lots of friendly people using a broad variety of engines there that might be able to help. I'm not a game developer perse , but I do have some knowledge of 2d game development techniques, I'm always willing to offer my 2 cents.