How to change player image?

[YoungProgrammer]

Hello, I am very new to LOVE. I have a game that i am working on and I need someone to help me change cube character in the game to the character in "sprites/player_right.png"

That blue cube in the middle needs to be replaced with my character.



Basically, I want that cube replaced with my character that i have in the "sprites folder", I have included a .zip and .love of my project to this thread. If you need any more info, just ask. And please don't be mean, this is my first post. Thanks in advance.

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.love file.

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[norubal]

Please attach file so we can see your project and answer! I can see only text, no link or something..

I have some links that might be help..
http://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.rectangle (blue cube seems like drawn by this function)
http://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.draw (it draws image instead of cube)

Good luck to your project!

[YoungProgrammer]

Please attach file so we can see your project and answer! I can see only text, no link or something..

I have some links that might be help..
http://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.rectangle (blue cube seems like drawn by this function)
http://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.draw (it draws image instead of cube)

Good luck to your project!

Sorry about that project link problem. I have updated it so you can have a look at it. Thanks for the reply. And by the way, I am still unsure of how i would use love.graphics.draw in my code. I mean, I know what it does and how to use it but it is not compatible with my code. Anyways you will see when you have a look at my main.lua. Thanks again.

[Plu]

This is what is currently drawing your player:

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love.graphics.setColor( 0, 0, 255)
love.graphics.rectangle("fill", player.x - player.w/2, player.y - player.h/2, player.w, player.h)

You have to replace it with this:

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love.graphics.draw( playerImage, player.x, player.y )

And in love.load you need to load your character roughly like this:

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playerImage = love.graphics.newImage( 'nameofyourimage.png' )

And it should work. At least to load the character Making it face the right way and/or animating it will be a lot more work.

[micha]

It will work the way Norubal explained. In the love.draw function there currently is a love.graphics.rectangle. You need to replace this by a love.graphics.draw. (Edit: I got Plu'd)

I highly suggest reading the tutorial in the wiki to understand how that works. See here. You should start with the hamster ball tutorial.

[Zeliarden]

Make a player draw function
something like this:

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function player:draw()
if self.isFacing == "left" then 

   love.graphics.draw( player_image_left, player.x - player.w/2, player.y - player.h)
end

if self.isFacing == "right"  then 
   love.graphics.draw( player_image_right, player.x - player.w/2, player.y - player.h)
end

end

and set isFacing in player:left / right

[Doctory]

I read minds!

You are re-making Vlambeer's Super Crate Box!

[YoungProgrammer]

I read minds!

You are re-making Vlambeer's Super Crate Box!

Indeed. I am even using the game's soundtrack for some testing. Nice catch.

[Fayer]

Hey YoungProgrammer, how did you manage to do math.clamp() ? When I do that love2D throws an error.

[Nixola]

Hey YoungProgrammer, how did you manage to do math.clamp() ? When I do that love2D throws an error.

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math.clamp = function(min, x max) return math.max(min, math.min(max, x))