But what if I want something like waterfalls?

EDIT: Never mind. I found a way to fix it. That is, only updating the water within the chunk that the player is in.

But first I would need to know which tiles are water tiles so wouldn't I still have to go through all the tiles to figure out which one is a water tile?

markgo wrote:You can do:

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Spritebatch:setImage(newImage)

All your sprites will use the new image so it's like changing the skin of your tiles.

Ok so this would work if I update the water's position? (If the water is in mid-air or something.)

If you just want to check a single tile, you can just read map[x][y] I know but what if I want to update all water blocks? They can't just stay static in one place. You can add similar tiles to a "layer". A layer would be a single spritebatch. You can swap out the image for the spritebatc...

No problem.

Here is my thread about a Minecraft/Terraria clone: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9729 You can poke around the code. Also, how would you go about adding to a table with map:add()? Is there such a function? No there isn't a map:add() function but you can make one if you want. Also, your ...

micha wrote:There is no löve-built-in function for saving SpriteBatches. You have to keep track of what you put into the spritebatch and then save it by hand.

Alright.

Plu wrote:You mean during the game? You can probably copy them and use that to save/load. If you mean to a file, I don't think so... you'll probably have to write something yourself.

I mean like saving when you exit the game and then loading when you return to the game again.

davisdude wrote:How you got it to save like that. I think you would use love.event.push or something, but I don't know...
Thanks!

Oh I just used this library:
https://love2d.org/wiki/SICK

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