Zipping love games and Mouse joints

[MHD]

I have made a cool prototype of a physics sandbox and now I want to make a zipped game file, proble is that I can't make love recognize the file.
I am using 7zip and zipping using ordinary zipping algorithms (.zip).

How do you zip games?

Also for the aforementioned physics sandbox, I would like a mouse pickup function, but I can't seem to figgure out the mouse joint's properties.

[rude]

Put main.lua at the root of the .zip-file, not in a directory.

[MHD]

Ah, thanks

[u9_]

I see i am not the only one having this problem. May I come with a suggestion:

When love starts, it looks for the main.lua file, should it not find it in the root directory, it looks in the first child directory of the zip file to see if there is a main.lua file, and continues to the next child directory until it finds main.lua?

The reason I suggest this is because quite a few people (and i thank them all for having this habit) zip the entire folder when they zip their project, not just the content. So that when you unzip "to this location" as it were, you don't get a billion files scattered where you didn't actually plan to have them. Whether archives should be contained within their own folder within the archive or not is an ancient battle, and i'm not here to say which is right... I'm just suggesting love be able to support both approaches

[Kaze]

I see i am not the only one having this problem. May I come with a suggestion:

When love starts, it looks for the main.lua file, should it not find it in the root directory, it looks in the first child directory of the zip file to see if there is a main.lua file, and continues to the next child directory until it finds main.lua?

The reason I suggest this is because quite a few people (and i thank them all for having this habit) zip the entire folder when they zip their project, not just the content. So that when you unzip "to this location" as it were, you don't get a billion files scattered where you didn't actually plan to have them. Whether archives should be contained within their own folder within the archive or not is an ancient battle, and i'm not here to say which is right... I'm just suggesting love be able to support both approaches

That's just a silly idea. It's not hard to zip the contents of a folder (I use a batch file because I'm super-lazy, though).

[Green_Hell]

That's just a silly idea. It's not hard to zip the contents of a folder (I use a batch file because I'm super-lazy, though).

I must agree with you.

[farvardin]

I find it's a good idea u9_

It's a good habit to put zip content into a subfolder.

[rude]

LÖVE would use the subfolder-way as the only way, but sadly, that's not how PhysicsFS works. You can't set the root to something inside the zip. I would also at all cost like to avoid prefixing everything manually.

[u9_]

rude, what do you mean, "avoid prefixing everything manually?"

I am surprised some of you think this was a silly idea. I would think flexibility is a good thing There have already been examples where this would have helped, i.e. the folder zipped, instead of the content of the folder. But it is not that important though. No worries

[rude]

I mean that when the user calls love.graphics.newImage("dog.png"), it's converted to love.graphics.newImage("gamename/dog.png") before being sent to PhysFS.

But now that I think about it, it would only require an extra check in a single function, at least in the next version. Hmm, I'll think about it.