Some questions

[PedroChurro]

So, I thought, I have so many questions, and I really don't want to spam the forums, so, can I post the questions I have on this topic? It would be really useful.

Here are some questions to start:

1: So, I'm already trying to make a game, and I'm currently doing the menu. But there is one problem, I have a background I want to use for the menu, but when I use it, it covers up the buttons(Start, quit, etc.). How can I change that?

2:How can I make my character to jump, and do a small animation when walking?

3:The tutorials I followed didn't cover how to make text with a custom font. What's the code for that?

Sorry for being such a noob.

[paritybit]

Drawing order matters. What you draw last is on top. So, you want to draw the background first and the buttons last.

Animations are a more difficult subject, since you're new to this you probably want to use an existing library like anim8. But the very basics are that you want to have a bunch of images that are played in sequence so that it looks like your character is doing some action.

[PedroChurro]

Drawing order matters. What you draw last is on top. So, you want to draw the background first and the buttons last.

Animations are a more difficult subject, since you're new to this you probably want to use an existing library like anim8. But the very basics are that you want to have a bunch of images that are played in sequence so that it looks like your character is doing some action.

Thanks, and also, yes, that is what I was planning to do, "have a bunch of images that are playing in sequence". But I don't know how to code that.

[paritybit]

But I don't know how to code that.

Take a look at anim8 (linked in the original response); it's a library for doing that and the tutorials will probably help.

[Nsmurf]

This might be a bit hard for a beginner, but for a simple animation system, you could do something like this:

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anm = {love.graphics.newImage('lol1.png'), love.graphics.newImage('lol2.png')}
anmon = 1

function love.update(dt)

if anmon < table.getn(anm) then
    anmon = anmon + 1*dt
else
    anmon = 1
end

end

function love.draw()
    love.graphics.draw(anm[round(anmon)])
end

function round(n, deci) deci = 10^(deci or 0) return math.floor(n*deci+.5)/deci end

However, I DO NOT suggest that you use this. To start off with, I would suggest that you use something like anim8, or the newly created MASH.

See this tutorial for fonts.

It's a bit confuzzling, and probably to complex for what you want, but you could use this for drawing order.

Good luck with your game

[substitute541]

Answer no. 1 : Drawing order matters. What's at the bottom goes at the front of everything else.
Answer no. 2 : Either try ready-made libraries, or just look at the wiki
Answer no. 3 : https://love2d.org/wiki/love.font

[PedroChurro]

Thanks, I think I'll try anim8.