Godot Version
4.3
Question
I’m trying to flip my character 2 directions, left and right. However, i have a lot of different stacked sprites/etc, so I’ve been just switching the scale of the whole player instead -
direction = Input.get_vector("ui_left", "ui_right","ui_up", "ui_down")
var direction:Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO:
set(new_dir):
if(new_dir.x > 0):
scale.y = 1
rotation_degrees = 0
if(new_dir.x < 0):
scale.y = -1
rotation_degrees = 180
direction = new_dir
However, since I need the player’s global rotation for other aspects of my game, setting it to 180 whenever I’m looking left is a lot to keep working around.
I’d like to only flip the scale of the sprites on my character – specifically, I want to only flip this child scene branch of my Player scene -
I want to do the exact same thing as ^ above, but using the AnimSprite’s scale –
if(new_dir.x > 0):
$AnimSprite.scale.y = 1
$AnimSprite.rotation_degrees = 0
if(new_dir.x < 0):
$AnimSprite.scale.y = -1
$AnimSprite.rotation_degrees = 180
When I try this, the scale constantly gets overwritten when I move left, so it never actually flips. I can see the scale is always trying to revert to the parent’s base scale of 1, instantly after I set it to -1. Is there a way to set the scale of a child node, without it immediately reverting to the scale of the parent node?
I want to flip things like Marker2D’s too in the scene tree (which regularly change per animation frame), so calling flip_h on every sprite individually doesn’t really serve my purpose. If anyone has a solution it’d be a huge help 
(EDIT - if anyone is wondering why I’m using negative scale.y and not x, this messed me up for a while so I’m just being explicit–)
Note: Negative X scales in 2D are not decomposable from the transformation matrix.
Due to the way scale is represented with transformation matrices in Godot,
negative scales on the X axis will be changed to negative scales on the Y axis
and a rotation of 180 degrees when decomposed.
