how can I draw the same object in different locations

[A-lox]

Hello I am A-lox and I am new to love2d I need to draw a box in diferent location and there are no totorial how to do that so I am stuck I would rilly like it if someone helped me with this

[ReFreezed]

Just call the drawing function several times with different coordinates.

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local image = love.graphics.newImage("myImage.png")
function love.draw()
    -- Draw the same image twice in different places.
    love.graphics.draw(image, 0, 0)
    love.graphics.draw(image, 50, 90)
end

[milon]

The same goes for drawing a rectangle, in case you're asking about shapes rather than images.

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function love.draw()
    -- Draw the same rectangle twice in different places.
    love.graphics.rectangle("line", 10, 20, 80, 80)
    love.graphics.rectangle("line", 100, 120, 80, 80)
end

Although in actual practice you wouldn't want to hardcode your coordinates like that. You'd want to use variables instead to be able to update the size, etc. Something like this:

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local box = {}
box.x1 = 10
box.y1 = 20
box.x2 = 100
box.y2 = 120
box.w = 80
box.h = 80

function love.draw()
    -- Draw the same rectangle twice in different places.
    love.graphics.rectangle("line", box.x1, box.y1, box.w, box.h)
    love.graphics.rectangle("line", box.x2, box.y2, box.w, box.h)
end

That way you're drawing 2 boxes with the same color, width, and height. The only thing that changes is the location you draw them at, and that can be changed just by updating the coordinte variables.

[darkfrei]

Make the object in the object! (actually table in table)

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object = {
  x = 0, y = 0, w = 20, h = 40,
  image = love.graphics.newImage("myImage.png"),
}

box1 = {
  x = 80,
  y = 30,
  object = object,
}

box2 = {
  x = 200,
  y = 300,
  object = object,
}

If the object has own x and y, then just use it as

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for i, box in ipairs ({box1, box2}) do
  local x = box.x + box.object.x
  local y = box.y + box.object.y
  love.graphics.draw(box.object.image, x, y)
end

Otherwise just the position of that box.

[A-lox]

thx you helped me all