How to rotate sprites in 2d

Beginner Questions
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is there a way to use different sprites to rotate the ai object (player) so that when it turns 45 degrees he uses a pre rendered 3d asset in 2d with walk animation?(Unity 2d)

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Hi

That is a pretty specific request, so there is no built in way to do this.
But you write a script which figures out the angle that the character is headed in and displays an appropriate asset. Something like

var lastPos;
void Update () {
    var delta = transform.position - lastPos;
    lastPos = transform.position;
    var angle = Mathf.Atan2(delta.y, delta.x)*Mathf.Rad2Deg + 180; // Note x and y are swapped
    // Angle will go from 0 to 360 degrees
    if (angle < 0.5*45) {
        // Walking to the right
    } else if (angle < 1.5*45) {
        // Walking up to the right
    } // ...

You can then set the sprite on an image component or something like that to show the animation.