Sprite flipping without changing anchor

[Pinkishu]

How would I go about that? I always disliked changing the anchor point for something like sprite flipping since

a) it will influence the sprite's position

some other thing i will want to do might require another anchor point, which then because a huge mess to work with

 

So, is there some way to flip the sprite without that? Maybe increase its position so it looks like it didnt change that or is there some other way?

[lewster32]

There're many ways - manually create a 'flipped' sprite or animation sequence, use a centralised anchor and set the scale.x or scale.y to a negative value, draw to a BitmapData and reverse the pixels. It's up to you really, and depends on what you need.

[rich]

Worth adding that it will always be fastest to have flipped sprites in your sprite sheet, rather than do anything with them at run-time. Sometimes this isn't possible, but personally I always try to do it whenever I can.