Thanks, I'll look into that.

I tried moving my body-creating stuff outside of the collision callback (basically, dump it in a list and don't do it until after world:update), and the crashing seems to have stopped. But it would be good to know what is and isn't allowed in collision callbacks.

I tried it out for the first time. 1) Loading was super-slow. Why make 19 threads generate images at the same time, instead of generating 1 image at a time? 2) The game brings my whole system to a crawl. Unless I minimize the window (to force-pause it), every action on my desktop takes like 30 secon...

You can post, it just needs to be approved first. We have such a spam problem, you wouldn't believe... I must have disapproved over 200 posts in the past two days. Sorry if I (or another mod) accidentally nixed one of yours in the process.

Using a "return" will take you out of whatever function you're in. If you want to exit just the innermost loop, you can use "break". For further reading, check out http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.4.4.

Since you're removing things, I highly recommend iterating backwards so that table.remove won't mess you up. Like so: for i=#table1, 1, -1 do for j=#table2, 1, -1 do -- backwards! if( table1[i].n == table[j].n and table1[i].s == table2[j].s ) then table.remove(table2, j) end end end Otherwise you ma...

During my year of being without Internet, I've upgraded TLbind! It features general improvements, a convenience TLbind.giveInstance function for making new control instances, and the main new feature is mouse support. Mouse buttons are handled as digital input and mouse position as an analogue input...

No problem, I'm glad I could help. Yes, the correct way (in TLfres) is to leave all your coordinates at wherever they should be for native res. I tried to make it require as little work as possible, and figured that never having to move stuff would be the least work of all. :) Plus, I intended TLfre...

Working hyperlinks /may/ be possible, depending on platform, by using os.execute()...

Anyway, I agree. New users may be confused by not being shown a game, or an IDE, or whatever they may have been expecting. It'll save us from having to inform them all here in the forums.

Ensayia and I are doing prototypes for a new little game. It's going to be a top-down space shooter ala 'Asteroids', with multiplayer, plus some light asteroid-mining / base-building / ship-crafting mechanics. Graphic style is going to be simple 8-bit , possibly cel-shaded. Controls will be mouse, k...

A few random Box2D questions that will assist my current project: 1) What's the fastest type of shape? Circles, right? 2) How can I boost the performance of Box2D? I tried using setFixedRotation on my circles, but that only seemed to give ~1 FPS more. 3) Is there any way to do a world:update() which...