[SOLVED] Background Image? (I put if solved cause I'm nice)

[iPoisonxL]

Hey, I'm new to Love2d, and I'm making a game, currently.
I know how to add a background image, it's possibly the simplest thing ever. The thing is, with a conditional statement (if() in this case), when I try to set a background image to a condition, it just displays a completely black screen. I've tried setting the background color to (255,255,255), and it's still a completely black background.. I'm not sure what's wrong. Here's the code for my function love.draw.

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function love.draw()

	if (state=='playing') then
		love.graphics.draw(hills, 0, 0)
		love.graphics.draw(player.image, player.x, player.y)
	end

	if (state=='menu') then
		button_draw()
                love.graphics.draw(menuBackground, 0, 0)
	end

end

Here is the variable.

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menuBackground=love.graphics.newImage('/sprites/menu.png')

And here is the code for menu.lua, what I use to make the menu functions.

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button={}
function button_spawn(x,y,text,id)
	table.insert(button, {x=x, y=y, text=text, id=id})
end

function button_draw()

	for i,v in ipairs(button) do
		love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0)
		love.graphics.setFont(fixedsys)
		love.graphics.print(v.text,v.x,v.y)
	end

end

function button_click(x,y)

	for i,v in ipairs(button) do

		if (x > v.x and
		x < v.x + fixedsys:getWidth(v.text) and
		y > v.y and
		y < v.y + fixedsys:getHeight()) then
			if (v.id=='quit') then
				love.event.push('quit')
			end
		end

	end

end

If you need any more of my code to find the problem, tell me. I'll happily add it.

[Automatik]

Hey, welcome to the forums!(Coming from someone who just registered to reply to you :p )

• You don't need () in a "if then" condition. you can do "if a==b then"
• You're drawing the button, then the background. The button then can't be shown since it's under the background.
• The menu will only be drawn if state contain "menu" . Are you sure you have something like "state="menu" " in love.init() ?
• Later, you might want to divide your program in multiple files.

[bartbes]

Also, you set the color to 0, 0, 0, that will affect anything drawn after that, including in the next frames, therefore everything will be drawn black.

[iPoisonxL]

Hey, welcome to the forums!(Coming from someone who just registered to reply to you :p )

• You don't need () in a "if then" condition. you can do "if a==b then"
• You're drawing the button, then the background. The button then can't be shown since it's under the background.
• The menu will only be drawn if state contain "menu" . Are you sure you have something like "state="menu" " in love.init() ?
• Later, you might want to divide your program in multiple files.

I like to use () in the if then conditions, makes me feel special. Also, it's a good habit because I program in a lot of other languages. None of these were the answer, but thanks for trying. I found the answer myself it's because I was setting the color to 0,0,0 in menu.lua, which set the picture's color black. I did divide my program in multiple files, you just don't see them.

[substitute541]

In functions when you're setting colors, it's best to reset it at the end of the function with "love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255)". It's usually what I do in my class functions.