Question

I am trying to transform a moving animated sprite to be a reverse of itself. The only way I know of do this is:

AffineTransform transform = new AffineTransform();
transform.scale(-1, 1);
transform.translate(-sprite.getWidth(), 0);
g.drawImage(imageFromSprite, transform, null);

Because there seem to be no methods to enter coordinates with the transform it means I am unable to carry on running my code which moves the animated sprite around the screen.

Is there a way of transforming an image and drawing it at specified coordinates?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Write yourself a method that performs the transformation and accepts the coordinates as parameters.

ex:

public void doTransformAndDraw(int x, int y)
{
    AffineTransform transform = new AffineTransform();
    //transform.scale(-1, 1);
    transform.translate(-sprite.getWidth(), 0);
    g.drawImage(sprite, x, y, null);
}

I’m assuming that the transform.translate() method is actually doing the image reversal.