Thread: Rotating Bitmaps with SDL

I'm trying to make my first real graphical C++ program by using SDL in Visual C++. One problem I have is that it's kind of a lunar lander type of thing, so I need to rotate the ship freely. I could make different animations for each time the ship would rotate 45 degrees, but is there just some way to rotate bitmaps in SDL using a single bitmap? Do I need to use OpenGL to do it? Is it easy?

thanks in advance.

Either use SDL_gfx (kinda slow for realtime when the images are larger)

Or you could use SDL w/ OpenGL, and if you don't know any OpenGL check out ZEngine which I wrote, requires almost 0 knowledge of SDL or OpenGL unless you're doing something really really fancy.

Rotation is as simple as:

PHP Code:

ZImage image("something.bmp");
image.DrawRotated(x,y,angle);