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by essell
Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:49 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Yeah, I've done something similar, cheers.

Q. How do I detect a collision between a bullet and an enemy?
by essell
Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:28 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

And another... I have a physics body as the ground, with the player standing on it. How do I detect whether the player is touching the ground, to determine whether he can jump? Or is there a better way? (At the moment, the player can keep jumping whilst in the air, as if they're flapping wings and f...
by essell
Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:01 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

For about a week I'd not gotten round to working on my game at all, but just last night i started getting back to work on it, and now have most of what I did working with everything as physics objects instead of just moving pictures :) To get the ball rolling on those questions again... Q. How do I ...
by essell
Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:25 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Great - thanks. Will try it tonight :)
by essell
Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:48 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Am having trouble figuring this out (player movement with physics).

Q. Can anyone suggest a Love game to refer to as a simple example of pressing arrow keys to move an avatar around in a basic physics-enabled world?
by essell
Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:19 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Okeydokey - I'm having a go at implementing the physics stuff. [Edit] Done! But now my previous means of moving the player character... if love.keyboard.isDown(love.key_right) then playerx = playerx + movespeed * dt end ...Doesn't work anymore. Q. Is this because the player is now a physics object, ...
by essell
Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:27 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Righto - I'll try it the next time it comes up.

Q. I'm trying to implement some really basic kind of collision detection (bullets hitting the player / enemies). What's the simplest / suggested way of doing this?
by essell
Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:56 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Q. What does "No matching function for overloaded 'draw'" mean, when I try and run my game and there's a showstopping error?
by essell
Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:49 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

Aye a friend linked me to that too - will start dipping into it :)

Q. How do I take a float and convert / round it to the closest integer?
by essell
Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:54 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: My ongoing newbie questions
Replies: 43
Views: 32198

Re: My ongoing newbie questions

That's what I suspected. Cheers :)