STI help

[superboySR]

So I'm trying to load a map in STI. I created a map.lua file and at the top I wrote local sti = require "amin.sti" because my init.lua file is located in sti and sti is located in the folder amin. But it is still not working? Help

[SneakySnake]

You need to understand what gets executed and when.

main.lua is the only file that gets executed by LÖVE (besides conf.lua).
If you want map.lua to run, you must require() it (or execute it in some other way).

This brings us to the next point.
Let's say you now require "map" at the top of main.lua.
The love.load() defined in map.lua will not get executed.
Why?
In Lua, if you define a function with the same name as an existing function, the new definition will override the existing function.
In this case, love.load() defined in main.lua will override love.load() defined in map.lua.
So how would you define a setup function for the map module?
One solution would be to create a map.load() function that you would explicitly call when you want to initialize the map module.

[superboySR]

You need to understand what gets executed and when.

main.lua is the only file that gets executed by LÖVE (besides conf.lua).
If you want map.lua to run, you must require() it (or execute it in some other way).

This brings us to the next point.
Let's say you now require "map" at the top of main.lua.
The love.load() defined in map.lua will not get executed.
Why?
In Lua, if you define a function with the same name as an existing function, the new definition will override the existing function.
In this case, love.load() defined in main.lua will override love.load() defined in map.lua.
So how would you define a setup function for the map module?
One solution would be to create a map.load() function that you would explicitly call when you want to initialize the map module.

Thanks for that! But unfortunately I changed the map.lua love.load() into map.load() and I did require "map" in main.lua and it has the same problem

[Karai17]

You need to call map.load() from inside love.load().

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local map = require "map"

function love.load()
    map.load()
end

[superboySR]

You need to call map.load() from inside love.load().

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local map = require "map"

function love.load()
    map.load()
end

I did that but same error. ;(

[superboySR]

It seems my code still isn't working Can someone post an example? That would mean a lot

[Karai17]

I moved your stuff out of map.lua because it served no purpose there. STI now loads, but you didn't include a map file with it so you will need to put that back in.

[superboySR]

I moved your stuff out of map.lua because it served no purpose there. STI now loads, but you didn't include a map file with it so you will need to put that back in.

Thanks! I will carefully look at how it loads

[superboySR]

I moved your stuff out of map.lua because it served no purpose there. STI now loads, but you didn't include a map file with it so you will need to put that back in.

I'm not sure why it says file not found because it is located in amin/mapsa/map01 ? I think it has something to do with that it says this: file not found: amin/mapsa/map01.lua.

[Karai17]

Because that file doesn't exist.