Better way to set up "padding"

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I use this to set up padding:

var halfWidth = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().bounds.extents.x;
xmin = leftmost.x + halfWidth;
xmax = rightmost.x - halfWidth;

Figured it out during previous lesson. It should work even when you change ship’s sprite.

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I thought about that improvement, too, but didn’t get as ambitious as you. :slight_smile:

Thanks for introducing me to the “extents” property of the Sprite Renderer!

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Thank you so much for this! I expanded this idea to change a sprite’s scale (for things like power ups or debuffs) in the script itself and adjust the xmin and xmax values to accomodate the changes in realtime.

https://pastebin.com/hBYBDeyq

Here is a quick video of what it looks like: