I don't understand classes

[Vimm]

for as long as I've been studying programming (on and off for a few years) I've never understood how classes work and how to "call them" or whatever, like if I make an enemy class and try to add it to main, i always get some kind of error and just dont understand, which is why ive never made it far in programming, it confuses me and i get frustrated, and end up quitting . Can someone help me? I dont want to quit this time but I cant comprehend classes :/ I've watched tutorials and the such, and yeah i can get the tutorials code to work, but I dont understand why it works ><

[Robin]

Okay, so could you upload a recent attempt of yours to use classes? Then we can walk you through it step by step. If you help us help you, I promise it won't be hard.

[Vimm]

Okay, so could you upload a recent attempt of yours to use classes? Then we can walk you through it step by step. If you help us help you, I promise it won't be hard.

Try not to cringe at the code, lol

[Sulunia]

So, i took a look at your project, and i noticed right off the bat you're trying to call Asteroid.new(). Unfortunately, Lua in itself is not object oriented (correct me if i'm wrong) but that can be implemented. So, do you want to do object orienting yourself (code the constructors and stuff) or just be able to use objects in your game?

If the latter, then you could just use an object orienting lib for lua. There are a few options, every single one of them pulls off the job graciously without any complications or such.
You can grab one for yourself here:https://github.com/love2d-community/awe ... rientation

If you want to make your own OO engine, then wait until someone with that knowledge pops here. I'm fairly new to Lua, hence the reason i can't really help out. Best of luck though!

[Vimm]

So, i took a look at your project, and i noticed right off the bat you're trying to call Asteroid.new(). Unfortunately, Lua in itself is not object oriented (correct me if i'm wrong) but that can be implemented. So, do you want to do object orienting yourself (code the constructors and stuff) or just be able to use objects in your game?

If the latter, then you could just use an object orienting lib for lua. There are a few options, every single one of them pulls off the job graciously without any complications or such.
You can grab one for yourself here:https://github.com/love2d-community/awe ... rientation

If you want to make your own OO engine, then wait until someone with that knowledge pops here. I'm fairly new to Lua, hence the reason i can't really help out. Best of luck though!

Ohh, see I've heard that you should use libraries like "classis" for objects, but every resource I saw made it sound optional, didn't know lua wasnt OO.

[MadByte]

Ohh, see I've heard that you should use libraries like "classis" for objects, but every resource I saw made it sound optional, didn't know lua wasnt OO.

They are in fact optional if you don't want to think about how to use tables and metatables to create classes and inheritance in lua.
Personally I started by looking at the Lua pil to find out how to use metatables to create classes.
As you can see it is pretty straight forward.

Also if you look at "classic.lua" you'll see that it's functionality is created in just a few well crafted lines of code - its not rocket science.

[Vimm]

Ohh, see I've heard that you should use libraries like "classis" for objects, but every resource I saw made it sound optional, didn't know lua wasnt OO.

They are in fact optional if you don't want to think about how to use tables and metatables to create classes and inheritance in lua.
Personally I started by looking at the Lua pil to find out how to use metatables to create classes.
As you can see it is pretty straight forward.

Also if you look at "classic.lua" you'll see that it's functionality is created in just a few well crafted lines of code - its not rocket science.

Oh nice, I'll bookmark that link to read when im more..awake XD and yeah i looked at classics code, it doesnt look so hard, im sure id understand it if i knew i tiny bit more haha. Thanks!

[Vimm]

So, i took a look at your project, and i noticed right off the bat you're trying to call Asteroid.new(). Unfortunately, Lua in itself is not object oriented (correct me if i'm wrong) but that can be implemented. So, do you want to do object orienting yourself (code the constructors and stuff) or just be able to use objects in your game?

If the latter, then you could just use an object orienting lib for lua. There are a few options, every single one of them pulls off the job graciously without any complications or such.
You can grab one for yourself here:https://github.com/love2d-community/awe ... rientation

If you want to make your own OO engine, then wait until someone with that knowledge pops here. I'm fairly new to Lua, hence the reason i can't really help out. Best of luck though!

Also, after implementing classic and looking at some references to see how to make it work, I got it to work! I still got a long way to go to fully understand classes, but this is still the farthest I've gotten, thanks for helping!

[Le_juiceBOX]

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[MadByte]

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