How to flip image of sprite but stay within hitbox bounds?

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Hi, I have a fish sprite that I’m creating like this:

playerFish = this.physics.add.sprite(
  this.game.scale.width / 2,
  this.game.scale.height / 2,
  'fish').setOrigin(0.5)

By default it’s facing to the right, but when it’s moving to the left I would like it to be facing to the left. Currently, I’m using this code:

playerFish.scaleX = -1

This does flip the image, but it seems to flip it around the zero x point of the sprite, not around the origin anchor point. Also, the hitbox bounds oddly doesn’t get flipped.

I must be doing something wrong here. Can someone please tell me the correct way to horizontally flip a sprite without physically moving it’s position (or the image position)?

Thanks!

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Use flipX.

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Thanks! weird that flipX doesn’t show up in my IDE’s autocomplete suggestions