Ah now I get it! Thanks for taking the time to explain. So what you say is that it is better to have one spritebatch which I modify instead of having multiple spritebatches which are modified not so often. My idea was all the time to have a few spritebatches which all draw the screen in a different ...

Ah ok thank you. But how do you mean that I don't have to have more than one spritebatch per area? My idea is to have say 3 spritebatches for the grass animation (which draw the grass stuff) and 5 for the water (which only draw water) and then per frame always draw one of the grass sprites and one o...

Thank you for the fast answer :) What do you mean with "1-tile" spritebatch? At the moment one spritebatch draws a lot of different tiles (it draws a full 32x32 rectangle which contains grass, water etc tiles) And I don't fully understand your last paragraph. What I do at the moment is hav...

First I drew every tile in my game with a separate call to draw. That wasn't a very clever way so I used spritebatches. I have the world separated into areas, each having its own spritebatch. Now I want to draw animations instead of the tiles (grass wiggling in a breeze, water waving in a wave, tree...

It seems like the answer to both questions could be cairo https://luapower.com/cairo
Does anyone have experience with getting luapower to work with love? (And does anyone know an easy svg->cairo converter)?

And I also have another small question which I don't want to post to an own thread: If I have an image consisting of multiple colors (SVG or not SVG, both possible), can I change one of the colors? For example to make only the leave inner color red in autumn but leave the border black?

I have some SVG images of a tree I have drawn. It consists of the main stem of the tree and a few small groups of leaves. I would like to be able to draw all leaves or just some of the leaves based on the time of the year. I also want to be able to talk to the different parts of the tree s.t. I can ...

thanks so much for both of your answers! I am using shearing for now and I will look at the shader solution as soon as I've read a bit about shaders

How are animatoins as for example in Stardew Valley done (when a player walks through grass or hits a tree they "wiggle"). I have three ideas: - A sequence of frames is played where they drew each frame by hand s.t. it looks like wiggling (But does this scale in terms of how many sprites y...

Haha oh yeah right. I knew it was expensive but I thought why not, I am only generating the water once. Didn't realize just how expensive it was. Thanks!