Given your art style, wouldn't a simple "discard" in the pixel shader be enough to avoid writing over objects behind ? (alpha test kind if transparency)

pgimeno wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:58 pm Yes, except...

Froyok wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:35 pm [...]

... make GAME_STATE local here!

Ho yeah, forgot the local when writing my snippet. All good on the actual code. Thx !

If you made self.CurrentState the actual state instead of a string with the state's name, you could do away with the ifs. That's a good point. I just kept my code snippet simple to simplify the discussion around. I have other stuff planned in the state update function. You could also return a fully...

If the variables stop being global, in order to do something with them in other places, you need to pass them as parameters. That's what I was referring to. Can't I just return my object like this and use the requires ? Taking advantage of the caching. Simplified example: main.lua local SPLASH = re...

Noted on the require. Makes sense after reading how that function works . :) the require() line will tell you where it is defined, and the parameter passing will tell you where it is modified. I'm not sure what you mean by parameter passing ? You mean to the function from the global in case I have a...

I'm prepping up the global structure of my game and I was wondering what would be the most optimal approach given the layout of code I would like to use. I have read a bit about how Lua handles Globals and they way require works, but I'm wouldn't mind some additional feedback. I feel like my approac...

Yeah, it's likely very premature in my case anyway.
Thank you for the additional details !

LÖVE caches the parse results of vertex and pixel shader code in memory while it's running (so there is a form of caching there) - it avoids a bit of work if you have a lot of different pixel shaders which all use the same vertex shader, for example. It does not save anything to disk on its own acr...

Heya, I have been evaluating Löve these last few days to see if it could fit my needs (and so far it's really promising). Looking around the API and the Github repository I didn't find an explicit answer to a question I have. I did a little search on the forum as well but I didn't find anything rele...