iOS UIImageView won't animate with UIImages of CGImage

[gwelmarten]

I have a UIImageView that I am trying to make do an animation of a set of UIImages that are created by flipping other UIImages. Here's my code:

    turtle = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.width-200,
                                                                    self.view.frame.size.height - sand.frame.size.height - turtle.frame.size.height - 10 - heightOfKeyboard,
                                                                    100,100)];
[flippedTurtleArray addObject:[UIImage imageWithCGImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Turtle1.png"].CGImage scale:1 orientation:UIImageOrientationDownMirrored]];
[flippedTurtleArray addObject:[UIImage imageWithCGImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Turtle2.png"].CGImage scale:1 orientation:UIImageOrientationDownMirrored]];
[flippedTurtleArray addObject:[UIImage imageWithCGImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Turtle3.png"].CGImage scale:1 orientation:UIImageOrientationDownMirrored]];
[flippedTurtleArray addObject:[UIImage imageWithCGImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Turtle2.png"].CGImage scale:1 orientation:UIImageOrientationDownMirrored]];
[self.view addSubview: turtle];

Problem is, when I try and make it animate from the array of flipped images, it shows the originals, not the flipped ones (i.e., when I do this):

turtle.animationImages = flippedTurtleArray;
turtle.animationDuration = 0.8f;
turtle.animationRepeatCount = 0;
[turtle startAnimating];
the original non flipped images are shown.

Now, if I do this however:

turtle.image = [flippedTurtleArray objectAtIndex:1];

the flipped image is shown. I thought maybe you can't do the animation with CGImage, but couldn't find that anyone else had had the same problem. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sam

 

[xArtx]

Not the same problem, but something similarly strange is I tried
to make sixteen arrow frames pointing in all directions.
I can only get it down to five original frames required as pngs,
because once I've created a UIimage from another UIImage that is flipped,
no more images can be created by flipping the result UIImage a second time.

    arrowestImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"arrowest.PNG"];
    arrowneImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"arrowne.PNG"];
    arrownthImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"arrownth.PNG"];
    arroweneImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"arrowene.PNG"];
    arrownneImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"arrownne.PNG"];
        
    arrowseImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrowneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDownMirrored];
    arroweseImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arroweneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDownMirrored];
    arrowsseImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrownneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDownMirrored];
    arrowsthImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrownthImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDown];
    arrowwstImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrowestImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationUpMirrored];
    arrowswImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrowneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDown];
    arrownwImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrowneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationUpMirrored];
    arrowwswImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arroweneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDown];
    arrowwnwImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arroweneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationUpMirrored];
    arrownnwImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrownneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationUpMirrored];
    arrowsswImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:arrownneImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation: UIImageOrientationDown];

This is as few pngs I could begin with to get all sixteen direction arrows.
It's like North, South, then North-West, South-West, then down to South-South-West, and North-North-East.

Logically, it should be possible with three images if you can rotate in any 90 degree increment.