Fun fact, Lua's file IO will write files to the LOVE install directory.

I've got it mostly sorted out, but there's one more big problem. How do you read either a specific byte or specific line of a file? Either way works. If it's not possible, then love just can't do what I'm trying to do. love.filesystem.lines and file:read don't work, because they force you to start a...

I see mari0 there and that's it.

T-Bone wrote:You do know that the files you write don't end up in the same directory as the game files, don't you?

Then where is it writing it? If you look at the code that I posted, I'm not actually using love.filesystem yet, just the standard Lua file I/O.

Yeah, I've done some more testing, and tried a few extra things and nothing is happening at all. I'm guessing you must be required to use love.filesystem... so I'll give that a shot instead. Do you know of any more extensive tutorials on love.fileystem other than this? http://love2d.org/wiki/love.fi...

Well, I've used C++ binary files in the past, and was just trying to do that, but it seems to refuse to write to binary files. I've actually got my map saving system up and running, but it will only write to text files (which I'd rather not have since players can edit them) even though I've told it ...

I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to create savegames. There's far too little info on the love filesystem module (or maybe I just haven't been able to find it.) and there's almost no info about binary files with lua. I know this is a very broad question, but how do I save? The game I'm wo...

So, I have a table something along these lines: fruit = { apples = { 'a', "red", 5 } oranges = { 'o', "orange", 12 } pears = { 'p', "green", 7 } } It doesn't seem like it's possible to access them based on their index, and the values themselves are tables, so I just mad...

Well, shoot you're right. I didn't know what BOM was, so I just did UTF-8 encoding, and never tried that other option. Guess I should have. It works now, thanks.

I'd like to print some unusual ascii characters, and using the standard font/print I get the following error: "graphics.lua:1265: Decoding error: Invalid UTF-8" And if I set notepad++ to encode it UTF-8 so it can actually display the character: "graphics.lua:1273: Decoding error: Inva...