I'm trying to animate a sprite using only CoreAnimation. It's working so far except I can't figure out how to flip the sprite sheet.
Right now, I have a walking animation, but I want the sprite to face the direction it's walking (because it looks kind of silly walking backwards).
I guess I could add the reversed images on the sprite sheet, but I would rather avoid that because it could make it really big when I decide to add more.
Right now, my sprite is extending CALayer
and I've set its contents to the CGImageRef
which is the sprite sheet:
self.contents = (id) image;
To flip it I tried:
UIImage *tmp = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:image scale:1.0 orientation:UIImageOrientationUpMirrored];
CGImageRef flippedImage = tmp.CGImage;
self.contents = (id) flippedImage;
..and that's not working.
I found other solutions which involve animating, but I don't want to animate the flip. I just want it to happen instantly.
Is there a simple way to do this?
If there's a way to flip the whole CALayer
, I'd like to know that too. =]
Thanks!