Now Im not entirely sure if there is a better way to do it, but I basically just saved the frame of every different itteration of the animation in a table and ran through that and drew each one. Not sure if it will really work for your idea, but thats how I did it. I think i know what you mean, but...

I am new to Love2d and also to lua, so i need some help. I was trying to make some animations with AnAL and some easy animations came up. But at the moment i have a problem and can't figure out what i need to do to make it work. I want to create a explosion from the same spritesheet multiple times. ...