Scaling sprites in SDL

Question

Hi. How can i scale sprites in SDL?

Answer 1

SDL doesn't provide scaling functionality directly, but there's an additional library called SDL_gfx which provides rotation and zooming capabilities. There's also another library called Sprig which provides similar features.

Answer 2

If you use SFML instead then you get a very similar set of cross-platform capabilities but the graphics are hardware accelerated and features such as scaling and rotation come for free, both in terms of needing no additional dependencies and in terms of taking no noticeable CPU time to operate.