Mirroring an active?

[Nifflas]

I'm trying to improve my current game which will be released around January. A whole lot of unnecessary VRAM usage is a result of copying the animations depending on if my characters faces left or right. It'd be most rad if a negative X and Y scale could be used in order to mirror an object. Is there any chance this could be added? In order to not break backwards compatibility, a checkbox could be added to each active that says "enable negative scales" which is disabled by default.

[LB]

So, shaders are completely out of the question?

[Nifflas]

Yep, the flip shader is unreliable in some graphics cards (e.g. the last one I had) for non-powers-of-two object sizes (and I'm not going to change all the objects in the entire game to add that), I don't want to use the extra GPU, I dislike the type of workaround because it's not the right way to do it in the first place, and then I have to combine the flip shader with all the other shaders I sometimes use.

My game really, really needs this addition though, it really hurts its loading times and VRAM usage.