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From: mperdue@l4software.com (Mario Perdue)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Rotating 2-d images around the X and Y axis
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:24:44 GMT
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On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 23:44:38 -0600, Jeremy Hess
<jhess@mail.tdsnet.com> wrote:

>Hi all, how do you rotate 2d sprites around the x and y axis?

Are you wanting to "rotate" the sprite of "flip" it?

If you really want to rotate it, you can't. You could simulate a
rotation by changing the axis scale, but this doesn't change the
perspective of the image so it's kind of cheesy.

If you want to flip it, just give the axis a negative value.

Mario