Sprite alignment with rotation

[The Burrito]

Ok, so I'm sure I'm overlooking something really simple, but how does one go about drawing a sprite to track movement of another object?
This is in version 0.6.0, I understand that images are drawn from their top left, the problem intially came about when I was simply trying to give a physics body a sprite.

Heres an example of what I mean:

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--this is clearly the wrong way to do this.
   love.graphics.draw(tl,x-64,y-64,a)
   love.graphics.draw(tr,x,y-64,a)
   love.graphics.draw(bl,x-64,y,a)
   love.graphics.draw(br,x,y,a)

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left and right rotate the box, the only point that will maintain proper position relative to the box is br, which is because it's origin is the axis of rotation. So how would I go about making all the images stay in place?

[Robin]

Add additional arguments for the rotation offset.

EDIT: Actually, depending on what you want--do you want them all to stay inside the larger square? if so, you have to adjust the position where the images are drawn as well, depending on the angle (something like 32*math.sqrt(2)*math.cos(a) for the x, i'm not sure what the correct thing here is).

[TechnoCat]

You might be able to cheat this if you set their centers respectively to the center of the square.

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love.graphics.draw(tl,x,y,a,1,1,64,64)
love.graphics.draw(tr,x,y,a,1,1,0,64)
love.graphics.draw(bl,x,y,a,1,1,64,0)
love.graphics.draw(br,x,y,a,1,1,0,0)

This works because in LOVE 0.6.0 love.graphics.draw now has 2 new parameters for the center:
love.graphics.draw( sprite, x, y, angle, xScale, yScale, xCenter, yCenter)

[The Burrito]

This works because in LOVE 0.6.0 love.graphics.draw now has 2 new parameters for the center:love.graphics.draw( sprite, x, y, angle, xScale, yScale, xCenter, yCenter)

OK, Thanks!

yeah, I figured it was just something I was not familiar with, and that should do perfectly fine for the things I have in mind.