Flipping Cutout animation

Question

Hello everybody.

I've made a simple walking-cutout-animation.
In this animation the character is walking to the right. Is there any easy way to flip the cutout-animation, so the character is walking to the left?

I tried to change the x-value of the KinematicBody2D, but this leads to strange results (the animation is flipping continously).

This is my code so far (adapted from the demo-project 'Platformer 2D'):

    if (IsOnFloor()) {
        if (mLinearVelocity.x < -SIDING_CHANGE_SPEED) {
            mPlayerBody.Scale = new Vector2(Mathf.Abs(mPlayerBody.Scale.x) *-1f, mPlayerBody.Scale.y);
            newAnimation = "Walking";
        }
        if (mLinearVelocity.x > SIDING_CHANGE_SPEED) {
            mPlayerBody.Scale = new Vector2(Mathf.Abs(mPlayerBody.Scale.x), mPlayerBody.Scale.y);
            newAnimation = "Walking";
        }
    }

Any help is really appreciated :)

Edit:
Here is a video of the strange behaviour.
Please don't judge my Actor. It is just a simple stickmantest of cutout-animation and movement :):

Video

Answer 1

Maybe the reference mLinearVelocity isn't updated correctly? Just an assumption, since we don't see where you create the reference. Also, since you don't actually manipulate the y value of the vector, you can just say mPlayerBody.Scale.x *= -1.

Comments

Thanks for your answer :).

The reason I'm using Abs is, that I'm instancing the Actor with a different scale in the scene.

This is the whole script so far:

using Godot;
using System;

public class Player : KinematicBody2D
{
    private const float SLOPE_SLIDE_STOP = 25.0f;
    private const float WALK_SPEED = 250f; // pixels/sec
    private const float SIDING_CHANGE_SPEED = 10f;

    private Vector2 GRAVITY_VEC = new Vector2(0, 900);
    private Vector2 FLOOR_NORMAL = new Vector2(0, -1);
    private Vector2 mLinearVelocity = new Vector2();

    private KinematicBody2D mPlayerBody;
    private String mCurrentAnimation = String.Empty;
    private AnimationPlayer mPlayerAnimation;

    public override void _Ready()
    {
        mPlayerAnimation = (AnimationPlayer) GetNode("PlayerAnimation");
        mPlayerBody = this;
    }


    public override void _PhysicsProcess(float delta) {
        mLinearVelocity += delta * GRAVITY_VEC;

        mLinearVelocity = MoveAndSlide(mLinearVelocity, FLOOR_NORMAL, SLOPE_SLIDE_STOP);

        float targetSpeed = 0f;
        if (Input.IsActionPressed("move_left")) {
            targetSpeed += -1;
        }
        if (Input.IsActionPressed("move_right")) {
            targetSpeed += 1;   
        }

        targetSpeed *= WALK_SPEED;
        mLinearVelocity.x = Mathf.Lerp(mLinearVelocity.x, targetSpeed, 0.1f);

        String newAnimation = "Idle";

        if (IsOnFloor()) {
            if (mLinearVelocity.x < -SIDING_CHANGE_SPEED) {
                mPlayerBody.Scale = new Vector2(Mathf.Abs(mPlayerBody.Scale.x) *-1f, mPlayerBody.Scale.y);
                newAnimation = "Walking";
            }
            if (mLinearVelocity.x > SIDING_CHANGE_SPEED) {
                mPlayerBody.Scale = new Vector2(Mathf.Abs(mPlayerBody.Scale.x), mPlayerBody.Scale.y);
                newAnimation = "Walking";
            }
        }

        if (mCurrentAnimation != newAnimation) {
            mCurrentAnimation = newAnimation;
            mPlayerAnimation.Play(mCurrentAnimation);
        }
    }
}