Issue with loading levels [solved]

[zorg]

there's got to be some way, it can get the textures fine using love.graphics.newImage(), so it is possible, I just need to figure out how

newImage, like any other constructor reads data; that is indeed possible. the fact that it can access parts of a zip archive (which is what löve files are) is one thing, but to modify it, you'd need to modify the code "from under" itself, and that's not happening. (As long as the code is running, the file is locked, which is an assumption on my end; you can't overwrite/edit the archive.)

It's true you can't write inside a .love file, but not for that reason. Code files aren't locked once they're loaded, you can even delete them and it'll keep running just fine; you'd have to manually reload the file for any change to apply. The reason you can't is because LÖVE simply doesn't support editing zip files, which means it can't change the .love file contents.

I agree but for a different reason myself; it depends on the software keeping a file open or not, usually; then again i might be wrong in how zips are done.