SpriteBatch

Using a single image, draw any number of identical copies of the image using a single call to love.graphics.draw(). This can be used, for example, to draw repeating copies of a single background image with high performance.

A SpriteBatch can be even more useful when the underlying image is a texture atlas (a single image file containing many independent images); by adding Quads to the batch, different sub-images from within the atlas can be drawn.

Constructors

love.graphics.newSpriteBatch

Creates a new SpriteBatch.

Functions

Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.	11.0
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.
SpriteBatch:add	Adds a sprite to the batch.
SpriteBatch:addLayer	Adds a sprite to a batch created with an Array Texture.	11.0
SpriteBatch:addq	Adds a Quad to the batch.		0.9.0
SpriteBatch:attachAttribute	Attaches a per-vertex attribute from a Mesh onto this SpriteBatch, for use when drawing.	0.10.0
SpriteBatch:bind	Binds the SpriteBatch to memory for more efficient updating.	0.8.0	0.10.0
SpriteBatch:clear	Removes all sprites from the buffer.
SpriteBatch:flush	Immediately sends all new and modified sprite data to the graphics card.	0.9.2
SpriteBatch:getBufferSize	Gets the maximum number of sprites the SpriteBatch can hold.	0.9.0
SpriteBatch:getColor	Gets the color that will be used for the next add and set operations.	0.9.0
SpriteBatch:getCount	Gets the number of sprites currently in the SpriteBatch.	0.9.0
SpriteBatch:getImage	Returns the image used by the SpriteBatch.	0.8.0	0.10.0
SpriteBatch:getTexture	Gets the texture (Image or Canvas) used by the SpriteBatch.	0.9.1
SpriteBatch:set	Changes a sprite in the batch.	0.8.0
SpriteBatch:setBufferSize	Sets the maximum number of sprites the SpriteBatch can hold.	0.9.0	11.0
SpriteBatch:setColor	Sets the color that will be used for the next add or set operations.	0.8.0
SpriteBatch:setDrawRange	Restricts the drawn sprites in the SpriteBatch to a subset of the total.	11.0
SpriteBatch:setImage	Replaces the image used for the sprites.	0.7.2	0.10.0
SpriteBatch:setLayer	Changes a sprite previously added with add or addLayer, in a batch created with an Array Texture.	11.0
SpriteBatch:setTexture	Sets the texture (Image or Canvas) used for the sprites in the batch.	0.9.1
SpriteBatch:setq	Changes a sprite with a quad in the batch.	0.8.0	0.9.0
SpriteBatch:unbind	Unbinds the SpriteBatch.	0.8.0	0.10.0