Circle? Box?

[Chris016]

Idk what to do to remove the box, Does it require any work to fix on art side? or code? all suggestions help. I use paint to make it so idk lol

[counterfactual_jones]

Your image doesn't have any alpha - along with red green and blue, images sometimes contain an alpha channel to store information about transparency. Love doesn't (at the moment) seem to support colour keyed images - images where you pick a certain colour which then becomes transparent.

However - if all you want is a circle then BEHOLD:

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love.graphics.circle(0, x, y, radius)  -- 0 for filled circle
love.graphics.circle(1, x, y, radius)  -- 1 for unfilled circle 
love.graphics.circle(1, x, y, radius, sides)  -- number of sides can be specified if the default is too blocky 

[Tabasco]

Your image doesn't have any alpha - along with red green and blue, images sometimes contain an alpha channel to store information about transparency. Love doesn't (at the moment) seem to support colour keyed images - images where you pick a certain colour which then becomes transparent.

However - if all you want is a circle then BEHOLD:

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love.graphics.circle(0, x, y, radius)  -- 0 for filled circle
love.graphics.circle(1, x, y, radius)  -- 1 for unfilled circle 
love.graphics.circle(1, x, y, radius, sides)  -- number of sides can be specified if the default is too blocky 

This is all great information, but you might be wise to use love.draw_fill and love.draw_line enumerators instead of 0 and 1.

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love.graphics.circle(love.draw_fill, x, y, radius, sides)

A complete list of constants can be found here:
http://love2d.org/docs/Constants.html

I might also recommend the GIMP for creating graphics. It's free and supports the PNG format (among many, many others), which is good for alpha.
http://www.gimp.org

[counterfactual_jones]

This is all great information, but you might be wise to use love.draw_fill and love.draw_line enumerators instead of 0 and 1.

Aha! I knew there must be constants somewhere! Thank you, I couldn't find any in the docs for the Circle function.

[Broncheabones]

I might also recommend the GIMP for creating graphics. It's free and supports the PNG format (among many, many others), which is good for alpha.
http://www.gimp.org

I personally prefer paint.net which can be found here: http://www.paint.net/

It's really simple IMO.

[Skofo]

I might also recommend the GIMP for creating graphics. It's free and supports the PNG format (among many, many others), which is good for alpha.
http://www.gimp.org

I personally prefer paint.net which can be found here: http://www.paint.net/

It's really simple IMO.

And Windows-only.

[osgeld]

and if you ever get past ms paint complexity then you have to dig around in forums for plugin support (but hey, who uses psd files anyway when their working on a image)

its ok, its lacking a lot, so if you want something thats a bit more than ms pain thats probably it

and with any image editor the ease is how much effort you put into it, i find paint.net much harder than the gimp, cause i have not put much if any effort into using it