# scaleX - how to flip character

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scalex-how-to-flip-character/306816>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [March 22, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scalex-how-to-flip-character/306816 "2010-03-22T23:17:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@Nim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nim)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scalex-how-to-flip-character/306816/1 "2010-03-22T23:17:38Z")

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hello all. I’m quite new here, a beautiful site/forum.

I’m just building my first flash game and I can’t scale my character on right or left arrow.

My samurai is moving fine with the arrows (or wasd). The problem is that the samurai is actually 4 movie clips: His head, his body, his feet, his stuff, all with different width, and when I am scaling all of them the whole figure of samurai is destroyed.

I can’t explain it quite well so, I posted the swf [[SIZE=“5”]here[/SIZE]](http://flash-secret-project.blogspot.com/2010/03/3.html). (move to the left)

Please check it and tell me what I should do to achieve a normall scaling.

In addition. How can I figure out how much should I scale a mc to get the \*\*exact \*\*‘image’ flipped ?

Thx in advance