How to load values from a .txt file?

[Robin]

We might be able to help you if you make a .love out of your game and upload that.

[s-ol]

Then you want that one line to look like this:

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for row in love.filesystem.lines("maps/map1.txt") do

Unfortunately I also tried that but it's the same result:

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main.lua:4: Could not open file maps/map1.txt. Does not exist.

Traceback

[C]: in function 'lines'
main.lua:4: in function 'load'
[C] in function 'xpcall'

Obviously you either misspelled the filename or path or put the file or folder into the wrong directory.

[louie999]

Ok here's the .love file.

Obviously you either misspelled the filename or path or put the file or folder into the wrong directory.

I didn't misspelled it, I've checked it over 10 times and nothing is misspelled. The file path for the main.lua file is C:/Games/main.lua and the file path for the map1.txt is C:/Games/maps/map1.txt

[zorg]

That file's literally only the main.lua; nothing else is in that .love file.
We did mean your whole game, including the folder structure and the txt file.

[I~=Spam]

Can you press open a command line and cd to the directory and run "dir" and post the output of dir? (To do that press start type "cmd" press enter. Type "cd C:\Games" + enter in the new window. Then type "dir".)

[louie999]

Can you press open a command line and cd to the directory and run "dir" and post the output of dir? (To do that press start type "cmd" press enter. Type "cd C:\Games" + enter in the new window. Then type "dir".)

I don't know if I did it correctly but:

That file's literally only the main.lua; nothing else is in that .love file.
We did mean your whole game, including the folder structure and the txt file.

C:

Inside the "Games" folder:

Inside the "maps" folder:

[Garmelon]

When creating the .zip you have to make sure you add the other folders too.
Did you open the "Games" folder with löve when you tested your code?
I made a small example.love with images from the wiki.

[louie999]

When creating the .zip you have to make sure you add the other folders too.
Did you open the "Games" folder with löve when you tested your code?
I made a small example.love with images from the wiki.

OH, now I get it. So I put the folders(with the files) in the .zip file then I changed it to a .love file then it opens up without any errors. Though I don't get it, the images didn't show up even though theres no errors

[Garmelon]

Though I don't get it, the images didn't show up even though theres no errors

In the main.lua you posted a few posts ago you didn't render the images. Also you didn't store the images you created using love.graphics.newImage() anywhere. I fixed that in my main.lua in my example.

[louie999]

In the main.lua you posted a few posts ago you didn't render the images. Also you didn't store the images you created using love.graphics.newImage() anywhere. I fixed that in my main.lua in my example.

So when I store the love.graphics.newImage(), then I need to use love.graphics.draw() to make it visible? if yes then should I put it in the love.draw() ?
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Oh wait nevermind I got it to work
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local tiles = {}

function love.load()
	for row in love.filesystem.lines("maps/map1.txt") do
	    local x, y, path = string.match(row, "(%d*),(%d*),\"(.*)\"")
		table.insert(tiles,{id = love.graphics.newImage(path), x = tonumber(x), y = tonumber(y), path = path})
	end
end

function love.draw()
    for _, imgs in pairs(tiles) do
		love.graphics.draw(imgs.id, imgs.x, imgs.y)
	end
end