Is it possible to flip the Active Object image?

[Kid_Roleplay]

Not certain whether or not this has been asked before.

Is there a way to flip or mirror the images of an Active Object? Like, say if you have one object that's a left hand, and you want to use the same object for a right hand to save on space, is there a way to code that or is making additional frames within the object the only way to achieve that?

[Konidias]

I haven't tried this with MMF yet (and I'm not home to test it out) but in a lot of image programs, you can set the scale of the image to negative and it will flip the image over.

So setting the active object x scale to -1 would flip it horizontally, and y scale to -1 would flip it vertically... but then again, this is just me guessing.

[Boba Fonts]

Unfortunately that doesn't happen in MMF2 for the time being: a -1 scale is treated as a 0 scale, and the objects seems to disapper and nothing more.
But there are other methods. Just yesterday I've experimented in MMF2 HWA the Flip shader for a reflection effect and it works pretty well.

[Pixelthief]

yes, the flip shader would work, but its highly recommend to just use the additional animation frames if possible.

[ffomega]

If you use active picture you can flip the image at runtime....in my current project this is how most of the sprites are loaded

[Kid_Roleplay]

Yeah. I had been using plain ol' Active Objects. Never used an Active Picture before.

[BrashMonkey]

Its really a shame that actives dont allow BOTH flipping of images at runtime and flipping of images to create the opposite direction at loadtime.

This would especially help keep filesizes down... something like this is very much needed for java for mobile!

[Kid_Roleplay]

Only necro'ing this wondering if the new version allows for the flipping of Active Objects via negative scale or otherwise, to prevent having to make extra frames. I didn't see it in the lengthy list of updates, but I've been known to miss things quite a bit. ^^;

[BrashMonkey]

Still not yet. I've been politicing for this for ever it feels like.