haha, no worries at all. I just figured there's a good chance I was doing something goofy so I was just taking the opportunity to learn from it. Playing around with that code you provided and I don't have it perfect yet, but getting some really cool effects just by tweaking the values some. Thanks f...

Thanks a ton, I'll try that out and see how it works. Looks like I was probably just way overthinking it :) Regarding your comment on the tables, can you elaborate a little bit as to what I am doing wrong? I've done professional programming for a LOOOONG time and tend to use tables like I would use ...

hmmmmm....I've tried manipulating the mouseX and mouseY origin points and i've also tried manipulating the bullets.dx and bullets.dy values and I can't quite get the end result that I am looking for, maybe I need to change my create bullet logic. I should have posted the code for that calculation as...

Hey everyone. I need some help and I have a feeling that either there is some fancy math that I need, or I am just overthinking it. I am making a smash tv type of overhead shooter where the player tracks the mouse and you click to fire a bullet in that direction. All of my rotation and shooting is w...

Thanks a bunch. I'll take a look at it. I ended up with some "ghetto" lighting where I am just changing the alpha level when I draw the tiles. Your method looks a little more elegant.

Thanks in advance for any help. I am writing a simple tile based game and would like to implement a "lighting" system. Basically, I want the world to be darker and then have torches, lights, whatever, that will put out light and illuminate the surrounding area. Is there a simple way to acc...

All right, so I've got a mostly working, partially correct version of the A* pathfinding algorithm that I have been working on. I realize that it's not fully complete yet, but I'm having some trouble. Currently, everything works almost perfectly. The algorithm is getting applied to an enemy to find ...

The sad thing is the amount of time that I stared at that before I noticed the problem.

Ugh....finally figured it out

Thanks in advance. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why my code is not working. I am trying to have a dungeon with randomly created rooms that never overlap. Attached is the relevant code. Any help would be appreciated. function createDungeon() --start generating rooms local roomWidth = 1 loc...