Question

[kikito]

You must transform your main.lua a bit; this is the simplest thing you can do:

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 -- main.lua
require('pacman')

function love.load()
  loadPacman()
end

function love.update(dt)
  updatePacman(dt)
end

function love.draw()
  drawPacman()
end

And, inside pacman.lua, you only define pacman stuff; just rename the love.load, love.update and love.draw functions there with loadPacman, updatePacman & drawPacman

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 -- pacman.lua
function loadPacman()
  ... -- same as before
end

function updatePacman(dt)
  ... -- same as before
end

function drawPacman()
  ... -- same as before
end

Once you have this, you can more or less easily extend it; you can have a ghosts.lua file with loadGhosts, updateGhosts and drawGhosts functions, and add them to main.lua, right after loadPacman, updatePacman and drawPacman.

[Acnesium]

Of course! Don't put multiple love.***() functions. You're going about it wrong. Instead, put the love.***() functions in main.lua and call the other individual update, draw, load functions with different names, from the originals.

Ah! now i get it, Thank you very much!

[Acnesium]

Hello,

I am in kinda trouble. I want to create a menu, map, enemies and I want to have pacman move to the right automatically when I press Right.

However this is kinda of a big deal to ask to you guys, so do you guys know some sort of site or tutorials where I could find this kind of stuff. I already looked through the wiki and searched around the forums (still doing) but I don't seem to be finding anything.

Thanks anyway!

[Robin]

You'll need to use the callback love.keypressed or the function love.keyboard.isDown for things like that.

Example usage:

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function love.keypressed(key)
    if key == 'right' then
        --move pacman right
    end
end

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function love.update(dt)
    if love.keyboard.isDown('right') then
        --move pacman right
    end
end

[Acnesium]

SNIP

Yes, but I can't seem to figure out how I get the original pacman movement like this one: http://www.pacman.nl/pacman.html.

This is what I got at the moment:

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function playerLoad()
	playerUp = love.graphics.newImage("images/pacmanUp.png")
	playerDown = love.graphics.newImage("images/pacmanDown.png")
	playerRight = love.graphics.newImage("images/pacmanRight.png")
	playerLeft = love.graphics.newImage("images/pacmanLeft.png")
	
	player = {
	animUp = newAnimation(playerUp, 32, 32, 0.1, 2);
	animDown = newAnimation(playerDown, 32, 32, 0.1, 2);
	animRight = newAnimation(playerRight, 32, 32, 0.1, 2);
	animLeft = newAnimation(playerLeft, 32, 32, 0.1, 2);
	
	x = 256;
	y = 256;
	s = 100;
	}
	
	playerAnim = player.animUp
	dt = love.timer.getDelta()
	
end

function goUp(dt)
	if player.y >= 0 then
		player.y = player.y - (player.s * dt)
		playerAnim = player.animUp
		playerAnim:update(dt)
	end
end

function playerUpdate(dt)
	if love.keyboard.isDown("up") then
		goUp(dt)
	end
end

function playerDraw()
	playerAnim:draw(player.x, player.y)
end

Thanks.

[Robin]

The way you do that is you remember the direction pacman is going (that is, put it in a variable).

You change that variable only on a keypress (and when there is a collision).

[Jasoco]

Pac-Man is complicated, but easy to figure out. I has been completely documented in how it works in the Pac-Man Dossier.

I used that page to create my own clone of Pac-Man that works about 90% like the original complete with ghost AI. You can have this code to check out. Mind it's a few months old and I've learned new Lua tricks since then so it may not look optimized. In fact I haven't even looked at the code in months so...

Pac-Man.love

wokka wokka wokka wokka

(7.32 KiB) Downloaded 107 times

The main things I didn't implement are collisions to kill, levels, score and "corner cutting". (You'll read about it in the Dossier. It's very integral to mastering the game. If you can't get cutting in, you fail! FAIL!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Fail.) And because of that, I do not suggest you use this code at all. Rather learn SOME things from it. It's buggy and not accurate 100%. Only 90%. Also, this was before I learned how to use framebuffers to scale the graphics so sorry for the 1:1 scale of pixels. Man, CRT's were low resolution back then.

READ THE DOSSIER!

Edit: Looking back, it's about 10 months old. Man, where did this year go? I made this in December! I had recently broken up with my girlfriend and was feeling good so I was able to concentrate.

[Acnesium]

--SNIP--

Thats awesome! I will definitely use this. Thanks you!

[McClane]

I had a problem with the require command but people at #love helped me out
The problem was that the name of the "file.lua" can't be upper case.

Thanks!