Image Positioning

[Lacotemale]

Hey all,

Really obvious thing but I started a game using absolute position values only to realise everything would get messed up on maximize. Ive started reworking stuff to be positioned from the center of the screen and im just wondering is this correct?

I come from a coding background, so game development is something im still pretty new to. I don't know what is good/bad practice on certain things just yet.

So im doing offsets like this going forward:

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s_w,s_h =  love.window.getDimensions( )

x = (s_w/2) - 16 --16 being half sprite width
y = (s_h/2) - 24 --24 being half sprite height

love.graphics.draw(menuBG, x-360, y-150)

Good or bad? Opinions?

[undef]

You're still drawing to absolute positions.

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love.graphics.draw(menuBG, x-360, y-150)

Think about it, on a 5k resolution 150 pixels is negligible, on 800*600 on the other hand it's s_w/4.
better:

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love.graphics.draw(menuBG, x-offsetX, y-offsetY) -- offsetX and offsetY being a value relative to the screen size

[Lacotemale]

Right, gotcha and I guess you mean using those s_w etc vars to calculate the percentage.

Thanks!