Functions

[Itswolfcity811]

I need help with a function I'm writing it is suppose to draw a circle around the player relative to my mouse and when I try to make it a specific distance away from the player it is being weird. Please also note that I'm bad at spelling and some words in my code my be misspelled.

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local love = _G.love

function Weapon(Weapons, _Id, Player, _Distance)
    return {
        Id = _Id or 1,
        Distance = _Distance + Player.Radius,
        print(Player.Radius),
        print(Distance),
        print(_Distance),

        Draw = function(self)
            love.graphics.circle("fill", self.Player.x + Distance, self.Player.y + Distance, self.Player.Radius / 10)
        end,
    }
end

return Weapon

When I run the code with "lovec ." it says this:
20
nil
50

Can anyone help?

[Andlac028]

When you are creating table (return { … }), you can not reference keys or values in that table, as you are just creating it. Move the Distance = … outside before that return. And if you want to return also Distance, just add Distance = Distance in that table.

P.S.: please use support and development forum instead of ports forum. Ports forum is for things about porting love to other platforms, not about general problems

[darkfrei]

I need help with a function I'm writing it is suppose to draw a circle around the player relative to my mouse and when I try to make it a specific distance away from the player it is being weird. Please also note that I'm bad at spelling and some words in my code my be misspelled.

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local love = _G.love

function Weapon(Weapons, _Id, Player, _Distance)
    return {
        Id = _Id or 1,
        Distance = _Distance + Player.Radius,
        print(Player.Radius),
        print(Distance),
        print(_Distance),

        Draw = function(self)
            love.graphics.circle("fill", self.Player.x + Distance, self.Player.y + Distance, self.Player.Radius / 10)
        end,
    }
end

return Weapon

When I run the code with "lovec ." it says this:
20
nil
50

Can anyone help?

First small letter for local

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local function newWeapon (player, weapons, id, distance)
  id = id or 1
--  local weapon = weapons[id] -- why you have weapons here?
  print(player.x, player.y, player.radius),
  print(distance),
  print(distance + player.radius),
  local distance = distance + player.radius
    return {
        id = id,
        distance = distance,
        player = player, -- to access for draw function 
        draw = function(self)
            love.graphics.circle("fill", self.player.x + self.distance, self.player.y + self.distance, self.player.radius / 10)
        end,
    }
end

return newWeapon

[Itswolfcity811]

Thank you for the help! It is now working. And I will put these posts in the right forum next time!