Your problem could be caused by all enemies referencing the same object. This looks suspicious: local spawndEnem = self.enemList['enemy1'] table.insert(self.activeEnemies, spawndEnem) Note that the first assignment does not make a copy of the enemy1 table: it "points" to the table. So, th...

The best part of Lua: pairs for index, activeEnemy in pairs (self.activeEnemies) do activeEnemy:draw() end It iterates all and each element in the table "self.activeEnemies", even not numerical indices. But the ordering will surprise you. The second best part of Lua is ipairs : for index,...

dusoft wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:23 pm Iterate using pairs or ipairs (if the table does not have empty nils)

Could you explain this more? I am new to Love and Lua

Hi and welcome to the forums. That snippet looks right, so the issue is probably elsewhere. Can't really help with just that much. The only other snippets that i think could contribute to the issue is: if Mouse:key_down(1) then local spawndEnem = self.enemList[1] table.insert(self.activeEnemies, sp...

I'm trying to make a table that will have enemies inserted/removed as you're playing, but they all have their own draw and update function, my current code only triggers on the last added table entry but i need them all to be active. Any suggestions? for i = 1, #self.activeEnemies, 1 do self.activeE...