thelinx wrote:table.getn (which is deprecated, use #myTable) only counts the sequence part of the table. (The part that's indexed by numbers, not keys)

ipairs also only loops through the sequence part. Use pairs(myTable) to loop through all values in the table.

I feel like such a noob Thanks!

As I won't need a price field, would it suffice to say: tInventory = { gold = 10; silver = 100 } ? Sure, that is in fact the structure of the "temp" table in my second suggestion. I've tried it out but for some reason the table appears empty... At least according to table.getn. See this c...

Thanks a lot guys! I'm new to Lua and I figured that at some point I'd get things confused with other languages. Lua never copies anything. a = b means "a points to whatever b points to", not "the value of b is copied and put in a". Robin: In hindsight I should have seen this com...

Hi, I'm trying to do the following thing. I have a table, say set = { { name = "gold", amount = 10 }, { name = "silver", amount = 100 } } Now I wrote a function that can add values to it from a similar set, like such: function addSet(setToBeAdded, s) local setToBeReturned = s for...

Ah, Dwarf Fortress. Oh, Dwarf Fortress. - If the only way to learn how to play your game is by forcing players to read /third-party/, 100+ page manuals, IT IS VERY WRONG AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED IMMEDIATELY. Well, if you're supposed to read through 100+ page manuals to "get it", then it's not...

Taehl wrote:More tedious? Is that supposed to be a good thing?

Good luck with your project, though.

Well maybe I want to offer the option of tedious micromgmt... for masochists who are into that kind of kinky stuff

Here's some screenshots of what I'm working on. Basically a civilization clone but intended to have much, much more tedious micro management. It's in alpha alpha alpha mode!

Thanks for the quick responses! I'll try to render it to an image, see if that works. Here is the function that does the drawing and is the first to be called in the love.draw() handler. (FYI, tileSize = 16, waterLevel = 127, and mapX, mapY denote where the screen is focusing on.) function love.draw...

Hi. I recently started using Love to shape a longtime dream into reality (agreed that sounds weird). I'm making a 2D, tile-based, turn-based sim/strategy game. Right now I'm at the stage where I'm trying to draw a scrolling 2d map onto the screen. This works well using tilesets and some newSpriteBat...