# Help with Animation and Flip

**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824
**Category:** Arcade
**Created:** [December 7, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824 "2020-12-07T16:36:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![MrHM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MrHM](https://forum.makecode.com/u/MrHM)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824/1 "2020-12-07T16:36:41Z")

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Hello All,

Trying to use set anim (animation extension) to create a left and right walking animation. Trying to get fancy where I have one set of source images that I can flip as necessary to avoid unnecessary graphics work. This approach seems to fail where I try to copy my right image into a left image variable. And then flip…but it acts like it is flipping the source images. If I just set the ‘left’ images equal to random images from the gallary, all works fine. Once I set left = right and then flip…all breaks…any ideas?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/7/71267b76e75b15f959042a3e0dfbe49fdb2c78ae.png)

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BTW: if I simply remove the commands after the call to doMarioWalkRight, the right animation is fine.

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### Author: ![Dreadmask197](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/dreadmask197/32/10494_2.png) [@Dreadmask197](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Dreadmask197)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824/2 "2020-12-07T16:39:21Z")

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I don´t think you can flip animations. That´s my guess. I´ve tried doing it before but I can´t crack it.

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### Author: ![MrHM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MrHM](https://forum.makecode.com/u/MrHM)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824/3 "2020-12-07T16:40:47Z")

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Not trying to flip the animation itself…trying to flip some source images to help built the animation…

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### Author: ![shakao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/shakao/32/113_2.png) [@shakao](https://forum.makecode.com/u/shakao)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824/4 "2020-12-07T17:15:29Z")

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Ah yes, so all these variables reference the same base image; we never automatically clone an image in order to keep games performant on hardware devices. You can use the “clone” block:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/b/be3aa6aa3c4cfb25960ccccfce8d24c4b37c4608.png)

to make a copy of `imgMarioStillRight` before you set `imgMarioStillLeft`, and that should give you the flip behavior you’re expecting!

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### Author: ![MrHM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MrHM](https://forum.makecode.com/u/MrHM)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-animation-and-flip/4824/5 "2020-12-07T17:47:14Z")

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That is the ticket! Works. Thank you for the insights into arcade…

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