Sprite in Image

Questions
1

When I try this, The sprite gets all messed up.

setContext(screen)
sprite("Documents:person",x,y,WIDTH*2,HEIGHT*2)
setContext()
2

where is defined screen, x and y ?

3

use readImage instead : http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/Reference/Storage.html#readImage

myImage = readImage("Planet Cute:Heart")

4

@Leviathan - setContext is meant to be used when you draw to an image in memory, not to the screen, eg

img=image(200,300)
setContext(img)
  --draw something
setContext()

--then in the draw function....
sprite(img,400,200) --draw the image held in memory
5

I don’t think that “Documents:person” is a square. What you want to do is something like this:

img = readImage("Documents:person")
sprite(img, x, y, img.width*2, img.height*2)

We’re all interpreting your question different ways. Can you give us a bit more detail with how your sprite gets mixed up? My code above will allow you to scale a sprite.

6

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7

I got it to work both ways, thank guys! Sorry about not sending enough information. I ended up using a viewMatrix and a restMatrix. And readImage works better, because it’s not as laggy. Thanks guys!