When working with cards (or top-down objects) that need to rotate for other directions (North/South/West/East and sometimes diagonals) we have at least two options:

- Copy/Paste icons and rotate
Problem: Size of the icon increases substantially. (For a TCG this can be several extra MB)

- Generate rotated icons at runtime
Problem: Downloads during play. Bursts of server processing required.



Possible Solutions?

- Rotation variable on movable atoms
Client will use the value to determine how to draw the atom. Same principle as "invisibility" or "animate_movement".

- Flags on icons to manipulate them upon download
When client downloads an icon, check certain variables and build it accordingly.
For this suggestion it would create rotations and set in the direction states.

Obviously other flags could be possible but are outside the scope of this request(flipping for side-scrolling games, applying swap colour script, colour blends etc)


Couldn't find this request in the tracker. My apologies if it's a repeat.

Thank you.