# Sprite pointing in wrong direction

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573 "2020-02-10T17:14:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![sysads](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/sysads/32/44975_2.png) [@sysads](https://community.thunkable.com/u/sysads)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573/1 "2020-02-10T17:14:51Z")

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I have a sprite as seen below

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/6/26108d8386f1a41b04b9d534a46382d0910699c8.png)

I added a simple pointer block so anywhere I touch on the screen, the sprite faces that direction.

The issue is the sprite is facing the direction using its side rather than its front.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/c/1/c1622af987ad84597451ac8b77d915eaac69cd09.png)

Any way to fix this?

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### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573/2 "2020-02-10T19:31:02Z")

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Typically, sprites have to have a “facing” direction. I haven’t used them in Thunkable but I’m familiar from other programming environments.

Try importing your image facing to the right (or left?) and see if that helps.

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### Author: ![1negroup2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/1negroup2/32/121682_2.png) [@1negroup2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/1negroup2)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573/3 "2021-11-08T09:45:26Z")

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That doesn’t help i have already tried this myself. I have even tried to switch things up in gimp and that is not working either.

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### Author: ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573/4 "2021-11-08T10:19:43Z")

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Welcome to Thunkable.

It would be much better to describe your issue in a new post rather than reply on a post created **2 years ago**.

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### Author: ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sprite-pointing-in-wrong-direction/456573/5 "2024-11-08T11:41:13Z")

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