Porting Your LÖVE to Zero Point Six Point Zero [0.6.0]

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Porting Your LÖVE to Zero Point Six Point Zero [0.6.0]

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Between LÖVE 0.5.0 to LÖVE 0.6.0 there have been alot of changes, breaking many .love files!!! This is a thread for everyone to post what to change in a .love file needs to have changed for it to work in the new LÖVE!

I'll start:

love.filesystem.require has been changed to just require.

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Well, all the old callbacks like update(), load(), draw() etc. are now going to have to be prefixed with love.
So update() will now be written love.update()
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A difference we noticed much when porting LBP was the following:

Old Colors are gone. You can only use setColor(r, g, b) or setColor(r, g, b, a) anymore. You can emulate old Colors by putting the color values in a table, and doing setColor(unpack(color_x)).
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Physics has inbuilt scaling now, so if you want it to be pixels again, create the world bigger and set the scaling to 1.
The default scale value is 30 px/m, so:

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world = love.physics.newWorld(xsize * 30, ysize * 30)
world:setMeter(1)
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Re: Porting Your LÖVE to Zero Point Six Point Zero [0.6.0]

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bartbes wrote:Physics has inbuilt scaling now, so if you want it to be pixels again, create the world bigger and set the scaling to 1.
The default scale value is 30 px/m, so:

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world = love.physics.newWorld(xsize * 30, ysize * 30)
world:setMeter(1)
That's a very bad idea. Unless you plan on having objects no bigger than 10 pixels big.

Box2D's documentation:
Box2D is tuned for MKS units. Keep the size of moving objects roughly between 0.1 and 10 meters. You'll need to use some scaling system when you render your environment and actors.
This setMeter() this is the scaling system they recommend. Don't stress a physics engine, it's a pretty delicate thing.
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It is bad, but if you rely on the current working, or, like me already scale before feeding it into the engine, you're going to need such code.
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Constants just became strings.

example:

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--old
if love.keyboard.isDown(love.key_space) then
love.graphics.polygon(love.draw_line, shape:getPoints())
end
--new
if love.keyboard.isDown('space') then
love.graphics.polygon('line',shape:getPoints())
end
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Post by bmelts »

Actually it's ' ', not 'space'. But yeah.

To quit, you need to call love.event.push('q').
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What is the string for the default font?
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Re: Porting Your LÖVE to Zero Point Six Point Zero [0.6.0]

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The default font used to be love._vera_ttf... poking around in the source makes it appear it still is.
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