LÖVE

Petunien wrote:

iemfi wrote: This would work but I would suggest learning and using an Object Oriented method instead if you're going to make a more complex game.

What method are you thinking of?
I also have some troubles getting started.

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iemfi wrote:

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function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)
    if button == "1" then
   table.insert(objects.rectangles,{x,y}) -- we add the mouse coordinates to the objects.rectangle table
    end
end

It should be:

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function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)
    if button == "l" then
    table.insert(objects.rectangles,{x,y}) -- we add the mouse coordinates to the objects.rectangle table
    end
end

A "l" instead of a "1" in the if-statement.

Yousar wrote:Your making me want to cry.
I already explained I know nothing whatsoever of scripting and I am just starting out.
By just shoving all this in my face, I can't learn anything.
I don't know what parameters are, how I can get a block to be placed where I click.
Nobody ever explained anything to me.
I don't have the LUA manual right next to me.
I am self teaching myself.
I just wish somebody would explain things bit by bit.

EDIT:
Let me just explain what I wanted the script to do in the first place, the thing that nobody taught me.
All I wanted was for the script to place a small square where I clicked.
I mean, about ten by ten pixels, by small square.
I didn't want it to start at the edge of the screen, or anything like that.
All I really was aiming for is placing a block where I click, like in Minecraft.
I know I sound really demanding, but all I wanted was a fix, and an explanation as to why my script wasn't working. Then I was hoping someone would explain the script, and I could learn from there.
Perhaps come back here later because I have another problem, and so on.
I am sure atleast a few people started like this...

-- Tutorial 1: Hamster Ball
-- Add an image to the game and move it around using 
-- the arrow keys.
-- compatible with lцve 0.6.0 and up
require "music.lua" --This means you can use the functions in music.lua in your file

function love.load()
   hamster = love.graphics.newImage("guy.png") --Assigns an image to a variable
   x = 50 -- Assigns X
   y = 50 -- Assigns Y
   speed = 100 --Assigns the speed the object is going at
   love.music()--This calls the functions defined imusic.lua
end

function love.update(dt)
   if love.keyboard.isDown("right") then --Checks if the correct keys are pressed and does the correspoding function
      x = x + (speed * dt)
   elseif love.keyboard.isDown("left") then --Checks if the correct keys are pressed and does the correspoding function
      x = x - (speed * dt)
   end

   if love.keyboard.isDown("down") then --Checks if the correct keys are pressed and does the correspoding function
      y = y + (speed * dt)
   elseif love.keyboard.isDown("up") then --Checks if the correct keys are pressed and does the correspoding function
      y = y - (speed * dt)
   end
end

function love.draw()
   love.graphics.draw(hamster, x, y) --Draws the variable that we have assigned the image to on the x and y axis
end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button) --Checks if the correct keys are pressed and does the correspoding function
    if button == "1" then
   love.graphics.rectangle("line", 10, 10, x, y) --Draws a rectange , but not filled, just the outline. 10 defines the size. X and Y is where the rectangle is printed.
   end
end

function love.music() --This makes a new function that you can call up
music = love.audio.newSource("hurricane.mp3") -- if "static" is omitted, LOVE will stream the file from disk, good for longer music tracks. This means that it won't create a copy of the file but it will "play" directly from the hard drive
love.audio.setVolume(1.0) -- This sets the volume
love.audio.play(music) -- This actually plays the music.
end

Yousar wrote:I already explained I know nothing whatsoever of scripting and I am just starting out.
By just shoving all this in my face, I can't learn anything.

Yousar wrote:Your making me want to cry.

Petunien wrote:I recommend you to learn some basics about Lua.