Rotating the player sprite does not seem to care for it's rotation origin

[iUltimateLP]

Rotating the player sprite does not seem to care for it's rotation origin

[iUltimateLP]

Update: it seems that calling setOrigin(0.5) on the sprite in update() serves as a workaround, although that might not be optimal!

[Annoraaq]

Hey @iUltimateLP, happy to hear you like Grid Engine.

I know why your problem happens, but I am not sure about the best way to solve it.

Grid Engine sets the origin to (0,0). It needs to know the origin in order to place the sprite correctly to the center of the tile. I think it would not be a problem to change the origin to something else, but then someone who wants to have an origin of (0,0) has the same problem you experience now.

The first solutions coming to my mind would be:

1. Grid Engine could store the original origin and only set its own one for repositioning the sprite and then set the old origin afterwards again (basically what you are doing as a workaround right now). The fact that your workaround works, is an indicator that this solution should work.

2. Let Grid Engine detect the origin and calculate the positioning of the sprite in relation to the origin.

I tend to favor option 1 over 2, because 2 is probably more complex.

I am also open for more ideas.

[Annoraaq]

I tried resetting the origin after applying the pixel position changes but it leads to a wrong positioning of the sprite. I can't see a better solution than your workaround in cases where you need an origin different from (0,0).

I will close this for now but feel free to reopen if you have more suggestions.