http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/thrustii/img/showcase0.png http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/thrustii/img/showcase1.png http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/thrustii/img/showcase2.png The 30 anniversary of Thrust II is approaching. This remake renders tribute to it. One major probl...

I've now implemented bitwise operators on the bytes of strings, which should help a great deal with this.

https://github.com/pgimeno/lua-strbit

So the general opinion is that it's not a good idea and that instead, the correct version should be installed and run, by whoever wants to run the application/game. Now this is my case. I'm using Debian Wheezy (oldstable) which comes with love 0.8.0. I can't upgrade my OS yet, for a number of reason...

I've noticed that disabling c.window.vsync in love.conf drastically reduces the CPU consumption of canvas:getImageData. However, it's still quite slow even for tile-sized images, to the point that you still have to run garbage collection manually. I suspect that the problem is that it should actuall...

Thank you, that idea seems promising but I fail to see how to use ffi for that purpose. It seems to only handle C declarations and constant expressions, not let you write C functions. To my knowledge, there's no built-in C function to handle the ANDing and shifting of byte arrays that this applicati...

Sorry, never mind. Once I found the cause, the solution was quickly apparent. Replacing the newDistanceJoint call with the following snipped solved it: tmpx, tmpy = ship.body:getWorldCenter() ship.joint = love.physics.newDistanceJoint(cargo.body, ship.body, cargodata.x, cargodata.y, tmpx, tmpy ) Aft...

I'm doing my first tests to make a Thrust II style game using the physics engine. I'm using a DistanceJoint, but the problem is that the ship rotates (gets some torque) as if it had a torsional spring. Why does it do that? How can I get rid of that effect and allow the joint point to rotate freely? ...

I'm trying to make a pixel-based collision detector, but every path I take has led to a brick wall. I wonder if someone has any recommendations. The problem is finding if a tile mask intersects the sprite mask. That can be done by bitwise ANDing the masks, or by multiplying (setBlendMode) the alphas...

Thanks for the answers. Since I posted and saw your replies, I've been considering working on a patch that would make LÖVE emulate past versions to a certain extent of compatibility. I found this thread which would be a start: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=76993 but from my readi...

I very recently discovered LÖVE and inevitably fell in love with it. But soon I discovered that some 60-80% of the stuff made with love2d that I could find only works with an older version. That has raised a deep concern in me. We are working on projects that may be broken one or two releases from n...