# Move tool with symmetry?

**URL:** https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011
**Category:** Features
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011 "2020-03-15T03:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Kyrieru](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/kyrieru/32/18506_2.png) [@Kyrieru](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Kyrieru)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/1 "2020-03-15T03:35:20Z")

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Moving something which has been selected does not follow symmetry. Is there any way to do this?

[https://i.gyazo.com/1ba84c20e93834ef7ccb46d68e19c85b.mp4](https://i.gyazo.com/1ba84c20e93834ef7ccb46d68e19c85b.mp4)

If not, it would be nice.

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### Author: ![dacap](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/dacap/32/10_2.png) [@dacap](https://community.aseprite.org/u/dacap)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/2 "2020-03-17T19:07:59Z")

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Hi @Kyrieru, known issue 😢 We have a specific issue with an item about this (“Selection & Symmetry”):

> <https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/1459>
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> We need a new way to handle selection transformations, the transformation should be abstract and repeatable in several layers/cels at the...

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### Author: ![Kyrieru](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/kyrieru/32/18506_2.png) [@Kyrieru](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Kyrieru)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/3 "2020-03-17T20:53:53Z")

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What if selecting doesn’t select on both sides of the symmetry line, like this.  
 ![](https://community.aseprite.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/02b9cc1d7a7519dfee333060849a620ce1f1046d.png)

-Selection information is saved to a variable after selecting.  
-User moves the selected contents.  
-Aseprite saves the new selection information to a seperate variable

- Aseprite loads previous position information.
- Offsets it by distance to the line.
- The operation is repeated with reversed X.
- Aseprite loads previous position information

I know nothing about how aseprite is programmed so this may be a dumb suggestion.

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### Author: ![dacap](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/dacap/32/10_2.png) [@dacap](https://community.aseprite.org/u/dacap)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/4 "2020-03-17T22:15:13Z")

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Actually that’s exactly the way we are thinking to fix this issue (instead of selecting both sides, selecting just one and repeat all transformation to all sides). Something similar is already being done when multiple cels are modified, but symmetry adds some extra complexity.

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### Author: ![Asten](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/asten/32/21002_2.png) [@Asten](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Asten)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/5 "2026-02-24T23:57:45Z")

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Hi,

I see this post is from 2020, but I have this issue,  
Is there a fix for this already?

Thanks.

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### Author: ![rjanes01](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/rjanes01/32/24931_2.png) [@rjanes01](https://community.aseprite.org/u/rjanes01)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/6 "2026-03-22T20:23:03Z")

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Bumping this one

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### Author: ![jasonrohrer](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/jasonrohrer/32/25885_2.png) [@jasonrohrer](https://community.aseprite.org/u/jasonrohrer)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/move-tool-with-symmetry/5011/7 "2026-04-20T15:18:55Z")

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Yes, I’ve been running into this too.