That's because that's different: apparently, the love.graphics.draw() function accepts nil as 0.

Ah...

Well, they're not nil if you assign a value (other than nil) to them first, yes. :P local image function love.load() image = love.graphics.newImage("Images/smiley.png") love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(50,50,255) end function love.draw() love.graphics.draw(image,imgx,imgy) end That doesn'...

Exactly. There is nothing magic about imgx and imgy

It wasn't nil when I used it in something other than love.update.

On the first call to love.update, imgx and imgx are not set. Their value is, literally, nil.

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks!

Hey, I've been using Lua for ages and I'm quite advanced, but I've just started using LOVE2D and seem to have got stuck at the first hurdle. :ehem: I thought you could use 'imgx' and 'imgy', but that doesn't seem to be working with my newest script. I swear imgx and imgy worked for my last script, b...

I suggest using Notepad++, if you have Windows. It has support for many different languages, including Lua.