Rotating the Rectangle object in java

Question

Is it possible to rotate the Rectangle object to a certain degree around it's axis? Is it as easy as Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(x,y,w,h,r)?

If it is not possible to rotate the object, what would be a way I could get similar results?

Edit: for clarity here is my dilemma, I have images that rotate but when they colide with other images the collisions only work at 90 and 180 degree rotations because their hit box Rectangle objects don't rotate.

Answer 1

Edit: for clarity here is my dilemma, I have images that rotate but when they colide with other images the collisions only work at 90 and 180 degree rotations because their hit box Rectangle objects don't rotate.

You can rotate a Shape-derived object, such as a Rectangle2D by using the AffineTransform method, createTransformedShape(...).

Rectangle2D myRect = new Rectangle2D.Double(100, 100, 200, 200);
AffineTransform at = AffineTransform.getRotateInstance(Math.PI / 4, 150, 150);
Shape rotatedRect = at.createTransformedShape(myRect);

Note: code not compiled nor tested.