rotate an image by modifying Texture2D.GetPixels32() array

[qvatra]

Is there build in function or any code sample that allows to transform Texture2D.GetPixels32() array in such way that output array would correspond to the same image which was rotated around its center by a specific angle?

[qvatra]

finally I’ve end up with this:

#pragma strict

var texToDraw : Texture2D;
var x: int;
var y: int;
private var pix1:Color32[];
private var pix2:Color32[];
private var pix3:Color32[];
var angle: int;

function Start (){
		var background : Texture2D = Instantiate(renderer.material.mainTexture);
        pix1 = background.GetPixels32();
        pix2 = texToDraw.GetPixels32();
		var W = texToDraw.width;
		var H = texToDraw.height;
		

		
		pix3 = rotateSquare(pix2, Mathf.Deg2Rad*angle);
		
	    for (var j = 0; j < H; j++){
        	for (var i = 0; i < W; i++) {
				//pix1[background.width/2 - texToDraw.width/2 + x + i + background.width*(background.height/2-texToDraw.height/2+j+y)] = pix2[i + j*texToDraw.width];
				pix1[background.width/2 - W/2 + x + i + background.width*(background.height/2-H/2+j+y)] = pix3[i + j*W];
				
        	}
        }
        
        background.SetPixels32(pix1);
        background.Apply();
        renderer.material.mainTexture = background;
}

function rotateSquare(arr:Color32[], phi:float){
	var x:int;
	var y:int;
	var i:int;
	var j:int;
    var sn:float = Mathf.Sin(phi);
    var cs:float = Mathf.Cos(phi);
    var texture: Texture2D = Instantiate(texToDraw);
    var arr2:Color32[] = texture.GetPixels32();
    var W:int = texture.width;
    var H:int = texture.height;
    var xc: int = W/2;
    var yc: int = H/2;
    
    for (j=0; j<H; j++){
    	for (i=0; i<W; i++){
          arr2[j*W+i] = new Color32(0,0,0,0);
          
          x = cs*(i-xc)+sn*(j-yc)+xc;
          y = -sn*(i-xc)+cs*(j-yc)+yc;
          
          if ((x>-1) && (x<W) &&(y>-1) && (y<H)){ 
          	arr2[j*W+i]=arr[y*W+x];
          }
        }
    }
    return arr2;
}

[BeauWorlds]

An excellent answer to your own question! Thank you very much qvarta, you ended a long search for me ! I’m posting this as an answer juste to include a C# version for fellow c# devs! (also I’ve replaced the floats with doubles and Mathf with System.Math, it improves the accuracy)

using System;

public class ImageRotator {

	public static Texture2D RotateImage(Texture2D originTexture, int angle){
		Texture2D result;

		result = new Texture2D(originTexture.width, originTexture.height);

		Color32[] pix1 = result.GetPixels32();
		Color32[] pix2 = originTexture.GetPixels32();
		int W = originTexture.width;
		int H = originTexture.height;

		int x = 0;
		int y = 0;

		Color32[] pix3 = rotateSquare(pix2, (Math.PI/180*(double)angle), originTexture);

		for (int j = 0; j < H; j++){
			for (var i = 0; i < W; i++) {
				//pix1[result.width/2 - originTexture.width/2 + x + i + result.width*(result.height/2-originTexture.height/2+j+y)] = pix2[i + j*originTexture.width];
				pix1[result.width/2 - W/2 + x + i + result.width*(result.height/2-H/2+j+y)] = pix3[i + j*W];

			}
		}

		result.SetPixels32(pix1);
		result.Apply();

		return result;
	}

	static Color32[] rotateSquare(Color32[] arr, double phi, Texture2D originTexture){
		int x;
		int y;
		int i;
		int j;

		double sn = Math.Sin(phi);
		double cs = Math.Cos(phi);
		Color32[] arr2 = originTexture.GetPixels32();
		int W = originTexture.width;
		int H = originTexture.height;
		int xc = W/2;
		int yc = H/2;

		for (j=0; j<H; j++){
			for (i=0; i<W; i++){
				arr2[j*W+i] = new Color32(0,0,0,0);

				x = (int)(cs*(i-xc)+sn*(j-yc)+xc);
				y = (int)(-sn*(i-xc)+cs*(j-yc)+yc);

				if ((x>-1) && (x<W) &&(y>-1) && (y<H)){ 
					arr2[j*W+i]=arr[y*W+x];
				}
			}
		}
		return arr2;
	}
}

Hope this can help someone, thanks again qvatra !

[shakerx3]

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!!!

You don’t understand the code? No surprise!

Maybe the author wants to have his fingerprint in your programs or just likes to be the only one who understands this code. I got the impression the answer is simply to confuse you. You need examples?
Besides using nonsense variable names, here some obvious trolls:

• result.width == originTexture.width == W
• x = y = 0
• Thus the line: pix1[result.width/2 - W/2 + x + i + result.width(result.height/2-H/2+j+y)] = pix3[i + j*W]*
  is the same as pix1[i + jW] = pix3[i + jW].
• Why this random calculation then? And why would you bring in two variables (x and y) that are simply 0 and do add nothing to the calculation? Yep, he definitely tries to help you.
  But this is not even the worst. The whole method Start/RotateImage is redundant.
  You do not need to iterate over the pix[3] array.
  All you need is the function rotateSquare and perform result.SetPixels32(arr2) and you are done.

Yes this is btw the same method the author used at some other point, strange he didn’t just use it, huh?

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How it works

Basically the well established rotation matrix (see rotateSquare-method) is applied and this is no magic and it is nothing he came up with on his own.

• x’ = xcos(a) - ysin(a)
• y’ = xsin(a) + ycos(a)

(Rotation matrix - Wikipedia)

However, instead of using the rotation matrix A itsself we use the inverted rotation matrix A^-1:

• x = x’ *cos(a) + y’ *sin(a)
• y = x’ * - sin(a) + y’ *cos(a)

This is an established approach to avoid holes in the output image. Rather than calculating the new, transformed pixel position for a pixel, we calculate for a given destination pixel [x’, y’] where its source [x, y] was. For further information I recommend the answer by Ralf Kleberhoff: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64062793

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The rest besides this formulae is not relevant.
So here is the readable and performant solution to the problem, hope this helps some people…

public Texture2D RotateImage(Texture2D originTexture, float angle)
    {
        int oldX;
        int oldY;
        int width = originTexture.width;
        int height = originTexture.height;
        
        Color32[] originPixels = originTexture.GetPixels32();
        Color32[] transformedPixels = originTexture.GetPixels32();
        float phi = Mathf.Deg2Rad * angle;

        for (int newY = 0; newY < height; newY++)
        {
            for (int newX = 0; newX < width; newX++)
            {
                transformedPixels[newY * width + newX] = new Color32(0, 0, 0, 0);
                int newXNormToCenter = newX - width / 2;
                int newYNormToCenter = newY - height / 2;
                oldX = (int)(Mathf.Cos(phi) * newXNormToCenter + Mathf.Sin(phi) * newYNormToCenter + width / 2);
                oldY = (int)(-Mathf.Sin(phi) * newXNormToCenter + Mathf.Cos(phi) * newYNormToCenter + height / 2);
                bool InsideImageBounds = (oldX > -1) && (oldX < width) && (oldY > -1) && (oldY < height);

                if (InsideImageBounds)
                {
                    transformedPixels[newY * width + newX] = originPixels[oldY * width + oldX];
                }
            }
        }

        Texture2D result = new Texture2D(width, height);
        result.SetPixels32(rotatedPixels);

        result.Apply();
        return result;
    }