how to get the block to spawn multiple times a second

[eqnox]

The title explains a lot. I want to be able to spawn the block below many times a second and they all be different blocks in the world, not just the same block. They will all have the same attributes of block1 but I want to be able to spawn in mass amounts of them, preferably a few a second whilst the left mouse button is held down.

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function love.load()
  love.physics.setMeter(64) 
  world = love.physics.newWorld(0, 9.81*64, true) 
 
  objects = {} 
 
  objects.ground = {}
  objects.ground.body = love.physics.newBody(world, 0, 400, "static") 
  objects.ground.shape = love.physics.newRectangleShape(500, 1) 
  objects.ground.fixture = love.physics.newFixture(objects.ground.body, objects.ground.shape); 
 
  
  objects.ball = {}
  objects.ball.body = love.physics.newBody(world, 50, 50, "dynamic") 
  objects.ball.shape = love.physics.newCircleShape(20) 
  objects.ball.fixture = love.physics.newFixture(objects.ball.body, objects.ball.shape, 3) 
  objects.ball.fixture:setRestitution(0.8) 



 
  objects.block1 = {}
  objects.block1.body = love.physics.newBody(world, 500, 1, "static")
  objects.block1.shape = love.physics.newRectangleShape(0, 0, 1, 1)
  objects.block1.fixture = love.physics.newFixture(objects.block1.body, objects.block1.shape, 2)

  love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255, 255, 255) 
  love.window.setMode(500, 400) 
end
 
 
function love.update(dt)
  world:update(dt) 
  if love.mouse.isDown("l") then

end
 
function love.draw()
  love.graphics.setColor(193, 47, 14) 
  love.graphics.circle("fill", objects.ball.body:getX(), objects.ball.body:getY(), objects.ball.shape:getRadius())

  love.graphics.setColor(50, 50, 50)
  love.graphics.polygon("fill", objects.block1.body:getWorldPoints(objects.block1.shape:getPoints()))
end

[airstruck]

I'd suggest trying the most obvious thing first, and if it doesn't give the behavior you expect, share what you tried, what you expected and what you observed. Showing the solutions you've attempted will give people context so they can help you more easily.

In this case, the most obvious thing might be writing a function that creates blocks and inserts them into an array, and iterating over that array in love.draw. Have you tried that?

[eqnox]

I'd suggest trying the most obvious thing first, and if it doesn't give the behavior you expect, share what you tried, what you expected and what you observed. Showing the solutions you've attempted will give people context so they can help you more easily.

In this case, the most obvious thing might be writing a function that creates blocks and inserts them into an array, and iterating over that array in love.draw. Have you tried that?

thats the part I need help with all the ways I've done it haven't worked yet and I can't find any good examples.

[MadByte]

This shouldn't be that hard.

spawningObjects.love

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You should take a deeper look into the offical lua pil and first of learn some basics.
http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

And especially the part about tables:
http://www.lua.org/pil/2.5.html

[eqnox]

thanks