tried to make as simple as possible: testCube = {} function testCube:create(x,y) local m = setmetatable({},{__index = testCube}) m.locationX = x m.locationY = y m.width = 55 m.height = 55 return m end function testCube:draw() love.graphics.rectangle("fill",self.locationX,self.locationY,sel...

so on the love.event page https://love2d.org/wiki/love.event it says It is possible to define new events by appending the table love.handlers. Such functions can be invoked as usual, via love.event.push using the table index as an argument. i thought maybe this was a table i could access using table...

ok I'm missing something obvious, obviously. But I'm sure someone can quickly tell me what the issue is. this code: angle = 0 print("angle: "..angle.." cos: "..math.cos(angle).." sin: "..math.sin(angle)) angle = 90 print("angle: "..angle.." cos: "..m...

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this is the simplest way I've found to implement what I'm looking for. I've been playing around with it and it seems to do what i need. the 'parent' can have default values, and functions, and the 'child' or new objects inherit the values and functions, but can also independently change the values w...

personally i find it easy to define them, as you would in a class or struct, since i can then look up to the top and easily see how/what i've defined, and don't forget to assign any variables, but I get what you're saying that it isn't necessary. you're solution is pretty much what I've ended up doi...

ok so here's a solution i've found while waiting for a response. maybe i just need to change the way i approach lua mentally, but this feels less... clean. Here's another simplified example: myCube = { cubeData = {}, width = 100, height = 25 } function myCube:draw() for k,v in ipairs(self.cubeData) ...

Fairly new to lua & love2d. Here's a simplified example of what i'm trying to do... this should draw five 100x25 cubes 5 pixels apart from each other across the top of the screen (unless i'm screwing something else up as well) objectlist = {} myCube = { x = nil, y = nil, width = nil, height = ni...