Reverse a Sprite without editing?

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Considering that you draw your sprite of a character walking to the right using

image(sprite, x, y)

You could also use this to get exactly the same result

image(sprite, x, y, sprite.width, sprite.height)

And, you could then simply reverse the horizontal size of the sprite by prepending a minus and then moving it to the right the same amount, to draw that character walking to the left:

image(sprite, x+sprite.width, y, -sprite.width, sprite.height)

So, then you could also make a function just for the direction:

def spriteDirection(sprite, x, y, dir):
  if(dir):
    image(sprite, x, y)
  else:
    image(sprite, x+sprite.width, y, -sprite.width, sprite.height)

where dir is True if you want the character going to the right, or False if you want the character going to the left.

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