Sprite Flip Towards Camera

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1

Concept is simple, character turns around based on which side of the screen the mouse is on. The script is:

void Update () {
var MousePosition = Input.mousePosition;
var PlayerPosition = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(transform.position);
if (MousePosition.x < PlayerPosition.x)
{
SpriteRenderer.flipX = true;
}

	if (MousePosition.x > PlayerPosition.x)
	{
		SpriteRenderer.flipX = false;
	}
}

I’m getting the error “CS0120: An object reference is required to access non-static member 'UnityEngine.SpriteRender.flipX”

I don’t know exactly what I’ve done wrong. If sprite render flip is a static variable, how would I edit it? Or is something else a static variable? I’m not sure really, var is still somewhat confusing to me.

Thanks for any help!

2

Note that SpriteRenderer.flipX is not static, which means you need to call flipX from an instance of the SpriteRenderer class. Your GameObject has a SpriteRenderer component attached (which is an instance of the class SpriteRenderer, not the static class itself). You could use the following code to fix the error.

Replace

SpriteRenderer.flipX = false;

with

SpriteRenderer sr = this.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
sr.flipX = false;

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