Fliping character 180 degrees when moving left

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So I am using the PlayerPlatformerController that Unity provides and the script flips the Character. I dont want that because I used skeletal animation and if I flip every single sprite it doesn't look right, so instead i want to rotate my character by 180 degrees but i dont know how to do that via this script.

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class PlayerPlatformerController : PhysicsObject
 {
 
     public float maxSpeed = 7;
     public float jumpTakeOffSpeed = 7;
 
     private SpriteRenderer[] spriteRenderer;
     private Animator animator;
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Awake()
     {
         spriteRenderer = GetComponentsInChildren<SpriteRenderer>();
         animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
     }
 
     protected override void ComputeVelocity()
     {
         Vector2 move = Vector2.zero;
 
         move.x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
 
         if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && grounded)
         {
             velocity.y = jumpTakeOffSpeed;
         }
         else if (Input.GetButtonUp("Jump"))
         {
             if (velocity.y > 0)
             {
                 velocity.y = velocity.y * 0.5f;
             }
         }
 
         bool flipSprite = (spriteRenderer[0].flipX ? (move.x > 0.01f) : (move.x < 0.01f));
         if (flipSprite)
         {
             for (int i = 0; i < spriteRenderer.Length; i++)
             {
                 spriteRenderer[i].flipX = !spriteRenderer[i].flipX;
             }
         }
 
         animator.SetBool("grounded", grounded);
         animator.SetFloat("velocityX", Mathf.Abs(velocity.x) / maxSpeed);
 
         targetVelocity = move * maxSpeed;
     }
 }

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Answer by DiegoSLTS · Apr 19, 2019 at 02:06 PM

You can change the X scale to flip the whole object to get a similar effect than flipping the sprites. I guess something like this should work:

      Vector3 scale = transform.localScale;
      bool flip = (scale.x < 0.0f ? (move.x > 0.01f) : (move.x < 0.01f)); // this assumes that a positive X scale is the default state, so a negative x would indicate an already flipped character
      if (flip)
      {
          scale.x *= -1.0f;
          transform.localScale = scale;
      }

Try that instead of the "bool flipSprite" code.

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tobilan2002 · Apr 19, 2019 at 02:28 PM 0

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Worked perfect. Thank you so much ^^

Fliping character 180 degrees when moving left

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