Multiple Animation Instances

[Cryonics]

I want to spawn/de-spawn several animated objects on screen with random interval.

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MyObjects = love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1)

And then draw, would make the animations sync.

My initial idea was that I could use something like:
Myobject .. Var = love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1)

It looks to me that unless LUA/LÖVE are capable of generic naming of objects, one would have to use the following:

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MyObject1 = love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1)
MyObject2 = love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1)
MyObject3 = love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1)
etc

Problem with this is that 1) limited by how many objects you predefine 2) it's not very efficient/practical
Sure if I only had to make <10 objects it would be manageable, but lets say I wanted more.

[Robin]

For this we would use a table:

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MyObjects = {}
table.insert(MyObjects, love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1))
table.insert(MyObjects, love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1))
table.insert(MyObjects, love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1))
table.insert(MyObjects, love.graphics.newAnimation(Object_img, 32, 32, 1))

Then all animations are accessible via []:

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MyObjects[1] -- the first
MyObjects[2] -- the second
index = 47
MyObjects[index] -- the 47th

[Cryonics]

Makes sense, thanks a lot