Thanks, guys.

First, I should clarify, I mean All game entities of the same class act as one, not all game entities. This is how I code the entities, first I put them in my own file then add functions: local myEnt = {}; myEnt.__index = myEnt; setmetatable(myEnt, {__index = myEnt}); function myEnt:new(x, y, custom...

This is how I move my character in my game: if (up) then self.vely = lerp(self.vely, -self.moveSpeed, dt*6); end if (left) then self.velx = lerp(self.velx, -self.moveSpeed, dt*6); end -- etc. However on my 144hz monitor, the game runs hilariously fast, I have no idea how to fix this, shouldn't dt ma...

while true do task = tasks:demand() local ret = {name=task.name} if task.type == "image" then ret.data = love.image.newImageData(task.image) else if task.type == ..... end results:push(ret) end values = {} function love.load() tasks:push{type="image", image="logo.png"}...

The Source Engine also works this way. It's called "ticks." It keeps track of how many ticks should be done in the amount of time passed, and ticks until it catches up. It's probably a better solution than dt, you won't have things going through walls. http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.co...

The way my asset loading works is it queues them all up in a queue table with info about each "asset load request" then when a function is called it loads them all at once while displaying a loading screen. There are 2 problems: 1. You can't use love.graphics in threads, even to load image...

bobbyjones wrote:Setting to nil will allow for it to be collected and freed. Also try lazy loading

Yeah it will be freed by the Lua garbage detector, but how can I be sure the texture itself will actually be destroyed by OpenGL?

I have a huge amount of images and sounds I load, but I only need most of them at certain times or in certain levels. So once I've loaded an image, how do I get rid of it? Not setting it to nil, I mean actually deallocate the memory (unless setting it to nil somehow mysteriously gets rid of it's all...

so right now my game just draws entities based on the order they were created (newest ones on top) which is normal since it just goes through the entities table and every entities place in the table is determined by the number of entities created since the game started plus one. but how would i make...

this is the way my entity currently moves: self.x = self.x + math.cos(self.rot-math.pi/2) * self.speed; self.y = self.y + math.sin(self.rot-math.pi/2) * self.speed; which makes it always move in the direction it's facing, no matter what. but the way i want it to work is when you press forward instea...