Question

I am experimenting with animation in <canvas> and can’t work out how to draw an image at an angle. The desired effect is a few images drawn as usual, with one image rotating slowly. (This image is not at the centre of the screen, if that makes any difference).

Answer 1

You need to modify the transformation matrix before drawing the image that you want rotated.

Assume image points to an HTMLImageElement object.

var x = canvas.width / 2;
var y = canvas.height / 2;
var width = image.width;
var height = image.height;

context.translate(x, y);
context.rotate(angleInRadians);
context.drawImage(image, -width / 2, -height / 2, width, height);
context.rotate(-angleInRadians);
context.translate(-x, -y);

The x, y coordinates is the center of the image on the canvas.