Rotate a Sprite Lite, for GM7

Updated 29 August 2009.

GameMaker Lite allows you to rotate the entire view and layer the rotated content on top of another view. This allows you to stretch and rotate large sprites without calling draw_getpixel.

Note, however, that the number of rotated sprites allowed onscreen with this method is extremely limited. You will also be unable to use backgrounds (though the example program shows you one possible workaround).

Updated file includes more detailed comments and is more consistent with the rest of GM's rotation functions.

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This post has been edited by xn--e5x on Aug 29 2009, 03:02 PM

Awesome work, this is very useful!

So what does this do, put a sprite in its own view and rotate the view to rotate the sprite?

Sorry, but this code isn't commented at all, and it's difficult to see what points to what.

That was cool.

Why did you bumped this?

Didnt look at the time it was posted. i thought since it was on page 1, it was fairly new

Last post was June 19th, so it should have been on page two (gasp). How many topics are you listing per page?

Oh, and anyway, I recently did some tidying up of the rotating code which, among other things, reversed the direction of rotation to make it consistent with GM's other functions. I'm gonna check to see what version is being linked to and update it if necessary. Stand by. New version is up.

This post has been edited by xn--e5x on Aug 29 2009, 03:01 PM

For it to be on page two, he'd need five posts per page. I use fifty.