I'm making a spacey RTS with lots of detail, a giant, generated galaxy, multiplayer, and lots of easter eggs!



But right now, it's just lots of ships orbiting a planet. I'm currently working on making a way for ships to transfer orbits...

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ ... ha_plugin/

This works really, really well.

About skeletal animations, how are triangles (or texture coordinates) related? I saw a good example of this somewhere, but I seem to have lost it. I'm referring to animations where the shape itself is distorted, rather than just rotating, scaling, or translating distinct parts. It's more or less es...

Nope. That function is curiously missing that. I ran into the same problem the other day. You can, however, create your own arc function that would simply draw a number of lines, since that's all love.graphics.arc does anyway (the segments argument actually defines how many lines to do.)

About skeletal animations, how are triangles (or texture coordinates) related? I saw a good example of this somewhere, but I seem to have lost it. I'm referring to animations where the shape itself is distorted, rather than just rotating, scaling, or translating distinct parts. It's more or less es...

timmeh42 wrote:

spectralcanine wrote:Just out of curiosity, why would you need to map texture coordinates to triangles in a 2D game?

Shockwave-like distortions
Smooth arbitrarily-curved textured things (eg traintracks from birds-eye-view)
Faux-3D perspective

...among many others

Also, skeletal animation and such!