Character with animation

[More Ragtime]

Because you're attempting to feed a table into love.graphics.draw().

Try this:

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function love.load()
	animation = {}
	animation[1] = love.graphics.newImage('Untitled.png')
	animation[2] = love.graphics.newImage('Untitled2.png')
	animation[3] = love.graphics.newImage('Untitled3.png')
	counter = 0
	frame = 1
end

function love.update(dt)
 	counter = counter + dt
 	if counter >= 0.2 then
 		counter = 0
 		frame = frame + 1
 		if frame == 4 then
 			frame = 1
 		end
 	end
	if love.keyboard.isDown("d") then
		x = x + (speed * dt)
	elseif love.keyboard.isDown("a") then
		x = x - (speed * dt)
	end
	if love.keyboard.isDown("s") then
		y = y + (speed * dt)
	elseif love.keyboard.isDown("w") then
		y = y - (speed * dt)
	end
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.draw(animation[frame], 0,  0)
end

thanks, it worked. but trying to move doesn't quite work. its telling me "attempt to preform arithmatic on global 'speed' (nil value) when i press any of the wasd keys to move

[DaedalusYoung]

Because speed has no value. Add it in love.load(), for example like so:

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speed = 100

Otherwise, it will have no value (it will be nil). How would you calculate no value * 1? You can't, and neither can Lua.

[Ranguna259]

Wha..? No, just NO.
Building an animation code yourself is a pain in the ass and it'll just mess up your code even if you make another lua to hold the animation code you'll just think back on how much time you used just to create something that already exists and that there was no real need to recreate it.
All you need to do is to change your line 30 from

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love.graphics.draw (bullet, x, y)

to:

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bullet:drawAnimation(x,y)

[DaedalusYoung]

I see no problem in creating one's own animation code. All you do is change exactly which image you draw to the screen over time. Time is easy to keep track of, and based on that, it's easy to alternate the image.

[Ranguna259]

But why, AnAL already exists and it perfect

[DaedalusYoung]

It can be a good exercise in coding, and gives you a better idea how animations work. When I made my first project, I wrote my own animation code and it's fine. AnAL probably is too powerful for what I needed and would only have made the .love file bigger.

Also, I like using my own coding 'conventions', the library is most likely coded in a completely different way than how I code.

For bigger projects, AnAL is probably better, if you need all or most of its functionalities.

[Ranguna259]

Yeah, I guess it's good to exercise

But Ragtime all you need to do to fix you code is to change line 30 to

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anim:drawAnimation(x,y)

Whenever you want to draw an animation with AnAL you do

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animation:drawAnimation(x,y)

and never forget to do the

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animation:update(dt)

on love.update(dt)

[XxSolidJelloxX]

I've come up with what I think Is a better way to do this. Keep in mind that I am pretty new to love. Let me know if this way is efficient:

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function love.load()
	 animation = {}
	 animation[1] = love.graphics.newImage('FirstPartOf-Walking-Animation.png')
	 animation[2] = love.graphics.newImage('SecondPartOf-Walking-Animation.png')
	 animation[3] = love.graphics.newImage('Character-Standing-Still.png')
	 frame = 3
	 charX = 0
	 charY = 0
	 rightTicks = 0
end

function love.update(dt)
	 print (rightTicks)
	 if rightTicks == 12 then
 		rightTicks = 0
		frame = frame + 1
 	end
 	if moveRight then
 		rightTicks = rightTicks + 1
		charX = charX + 2
		if frame == 3 then
		frame = 1
		end
 	end
end

function love.draw()
love.graphics.draw(animation[frame], charX,  charY)
end

function love.keypressed( key, unicode )
	if key == "d" then
		moveRight = true
	end
end

function love.keyreleased( key, unicode )
	if key == "d" then
		moveRight = false
		rightTicks = 0
		frame = 3
	end
end

This is designed for only 2 walking frames (not including the one where the character is standing still), but It could be easily tweaked to be used for more. Also, at the moment you should only put in the frames of the character walking right, because that is the only control I have programmed just as the example, but again, this could be easily tweaked to make all directions work. Anyways, let me know what you guys think

Edit: I did it with all directions, and it lags for some reason. Looks like I'll be using AnAL.