i'll LOVE it if someone helps....

[abhilash2863]

i've just downloaded LOVE engine i must say i'm LOVing it(sorry... can't resist using this word:) although i was able to make the first game that was given in the getting started section in wiki but there no further guidance on wat to do next....mostly examples are there but is there some sort of tutorial for beginners.....can some one suggest sites where there are tutorials for love...

[Robin]

Maybe you've seen it already, but the Wiki does include quite a lot of tutorials. (For a nice collection, see: http://love2d.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials)

Otherwise, just try things, keep the documentation at hand, and if you don't know what to do, ask the community, either on the forum or on IRC, about one specific problem you have at a time.

[abhilash2863]

thanx for it.....i'll give it a more careful reading.....since i'm new to LOVE and lua it will take some more time for me to get hang of it becoz originally i'm a ActionScript programmer, by the way you said you can help.... i was trying to draw shape in love but i couldn't, since there was no example code for it in the docs(i was successful in loading a image )

one last thing............... i'll "OBEY" rude and change my avatar as soon as possible

[napco]

Well, in 0.5.0 you can look in the "graphics" section of the documentation to draw a shape. An example is:

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function draw()
    love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
    love.graphics.rectangle(love.draw_fill, x, y, width, height)
end

You can change love.draw_fill with love.draw_line to draw only the borders. In 0.6.0 (it's a beta version of the next LOVE release) love.draw_fill and line have been replaced qith string constants, i think, and the draw callback is now called love.draw.

[Robin]

In 0.6.0 (it's a beta version of the next LOVE release) love.draw_fill and line have been replaced qith string constants, i think, and the draw callback is now called love.draw.

Yes, in 0.6.0 the equivalent code will be:

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
    love.graphics.rectangle("fill", x, y, width, height)
end

Or even better:

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.rectangle("fill", x, y, width, height)
end

Since in both 0.5.0 and 0.6.0 white is already the default, this is better performance-wise.