# How to Transform Tile - Scale, Rotate, Flip

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/how-to-transform-tile-scale-rotate-flip/1411>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/how-to-transform-tile-scale-rotate-flip/1411 "2016-06-02T12:08:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vijaysawane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Vijaysawane](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Vijaysawane)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/how-to-transform-tile-scale-rotate-flip/1411/1 "2016-06-02T12:08:18Z")

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I am trying to use similar tiles in my game, but i want same tile to scaled up and down. I dont want to put 2 smilar asset as smaller and bigger in atlas. How to scale up or down tile is there any tool like Rotate, Flip etc?

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/how-to-transform-tile-scale-rotate-flip/1411/2 "2016-06-05T10:55:03Z")

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On a Tile Layer, tiles can only be flipped or rotated by 90 degrees, using shortcut keys X (flipping horizontally), Y (flipping vertically) and Z / Shift+Z (rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise by 90 degrees).

When you need scaling or more free rotation, you can place your tiles as Tile Objects on an Object Layer.

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**Author:** ![Vijaysawane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Vijaysawane](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Vijaysawane)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/how-to-transform-tile-scale-rotate-flip/1411/3 "2016-06-06T06:20:34Z")

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Thank you so much for your reply. It helped a lot. I might have some more questions regarding using multiple sprite sheets in the game. But thanks so much for your quick reply. =)

Thank you!