I'm currently using love.physics for collisions, hit detection, ray casting and plan to use it for some other things as well. Bump seems simpler and easier to use, but from what I understand it only does axis aligned collisions. I'd have to "fake" turning characters, furniture and other en...

OK, but wouldn't that: - require some extra calculation in order to have the map tiles align with the love.physics/love.graphics coordinate system? - restrict options for drawing walls? What are the issues that can pop up if I just save the on-screen coordinates and angles to a file? I know of at le...

Hello, I'm looking to implement a topdown tactical shooter (with people, not spaceships or tanks etc. :P) and am currently trying to decide on an implementation for the map. I've got a few ideas but I've also got some questions, so I guess I'd better just put this out there. The map's particularitie...

Glad to hear it. It's a good felling when you know you can start actually coding in mechanics :D My own to-do list is currently growing faster than my codebase. I guess one good advice, if you're looking into actually coming up with a finished product and not only use this as a learn Love experience...

I think he meant sex as in genre, male or female. And I would usually ask the same question, but this subject tends to always end in an absolute shitstorm and this forum seems too civil and lovely for that. So I won't :) Best of luck with your effort Etiene and welcome to the forum. My advice would ...

While debugging my project, I noticed that printing to the console often spams it to hell and makes it hard to use. So I thought up a simple way to print directly to the game screen and wrote a helper to calculate the coords for you, according to how many lines you write. This will also break up you...

No problem, I know how frustrating it is when you can't seem to figure out how to make it work :P I meant that it seems as though you are calling the constructor with 5 parameters ( uni.ent[uni.eCnt], name, faction, x, y ), but the actual spawnStation() method has only one. The last 4 of those param...

I can't play around and debug your code atm. But I'd wager the problem is with the way you are calling the constructor. You're calling the constructor like so: uni.ent[uni.eCnt] = uni.sTypes[id]:spawnStation(uni.ent[uni.eCnt], name, faction, x, y) I guess uni.ent[uni.eCnt] is nil here, so newStat ge...

Using classes in Lua is really weird, compared to languages that actually have built-in syntax for it. I had the same problems you have right now. What I did to debug the issue was to add a unique identifier property on the class (i.e. name - Dave, Frank, Steve, etc. :P) that you set once for each i...

@AlexCalv - I don't want to discourage you in any way, but programming is hard. It's not all about "learning a language" (i.e. a particular syntax). It's about being able to understand both abstract concepts and the practical implementation, but most importantly about a continuous process ...