Animating

[Kasperelo]

Please help me! I'm not sure what's wrong with the animation.

[IMP1]

I think it may be the line(s) in 'player.lua':

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player.iterator = player.iterator + dt

That's not adding a whole number, but player.iterator (I think) has to be an integer. Try adding 'love.graphics.print(player.iterator, 0, 0) to your draw function so you can see what the variable is.

Add another varaible, call it animationTimer or something, and add dt to it every frame. Then if animationTimer >= [however long you wait between animation frames], then add one to player.iterator, and subtract dt from animationTimer.

Or use an animation library/class. I'm sure there are lots out there.

[Kasperelo]

OK!
I'll try

[Kasperelo]

Hm. Kinda works, but for some reason one of the frames doesn't show up?

[juno]

You're trying to access a table value (playerQuads.down, playerQuads.up..) with a string value.
One way to solve this is to create an empty table - playerQuads = { }, create the 4 quad animations as separate tables and then add them to playerQuads so that playerQuads[1] is down, playerQuads[2] is up etc. This means you need to change your player.direction value to an integer 1-4 instead of strings.

Here, I made a few changes to your player

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	control = {
		up = "w",
		down = "s",
		left = "a",
		right = "d",
		attack = "l"
	}
	
	player = {
		x = 600,
		y = 325,
		speed = 200,
		sprite = love.graphics.newImage("pics/quads/player.png"),
		direction = 1,
		iterator = 1
	}
	
	local playerQuads={}
	
	local downQuad = {
			love.graphics.newQuad(0, 0, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(0, 63, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(0, 126, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(0, 189, 24, 63, 96, 252)
		}
	local upQuad = {
		love.graphics.newQuad(24, 0, 24, 63, 96, 252),
		love.graphics.newQuad(24, 63, 24, 63, 96, 252),
		love.graphics.newQuad(24, 126, 24, 63, 96, 252),
		love.graphics.newQuad(24, 189, 24, 63, 96, 252)
	} 
	local rightQuad = {
		love.graphics.newQuad(48, 0, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(48, 63, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(48, 126, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(48, 189, 24, 63, 96, 252)
	} 
	local leftQuad = {
		love.graphics.newQuad(72, 0, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(72, 63, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(72, 126, 24, 63, 96, 252),
			love.graphics.newQuad(72, 189, 24, 63, 96, 252)
	} 

table.insert(playerQuads, downQuad)--1
table.insert(playerQuads, upQuad)--2
table.insert(playerQuads, rightQuad)--3
table.insert(playerQuads, leftQuad)--4

function playerDraw()

	if gamestate == "playing" then
		love.graphics.drawq(player.sprite, playerQuads[player.direction][player.iterator], player.x, player.y)
	end
	
end

function playerMove(dt)
	
	if love.keyboard.isDown(control.up) then
		player.y = player.y - player.speed * dt
		player.direction = 2
		player.iterator = player.iterator + 1
	end
	
	if love.keyboard.isDown(control.down) then
		player.y = player.y + player.speed * dt
		player.direction = 1
		player.iterator = player.iterator + 1
	end

	if love.keyboard.isDown(control.right) then
		player.x = player.x + player.speed * dt
		player.direction = 3
		player.iterator = player.iterator + 1
	end

	if love.keyboard.isDown(control.left) then
		player.x = player.x - player.speed * dt
		player.direction = 4
		player.iterator = player.iterator + 1
	end

end

function playerTimer(dt)

	if player.iterator > 4 then
		player.iterator = 1
	end

end

[Kasperelo]

uh... It worked. Didn't need to make an empty table. Weird. But now, if you walk around a little he's gonna dance like an idiot.

[Kasperelo]

Fixed! Yeah!

[Showle1943]

Hm. Kinda works, but for some reason one of the frames doesn't show up?

I'm having the same issue. Anybody figure this out yet? I'm a newbie so be gentle.

[Kasperelo]

Hm. Kinda works, but for some reason one of the frames doesn't show up?

I'm having the same issue. Anybody figure this out yet? I'm a newbie so be gentle.

Fixed it! Here's the script. PM me what you don't understand, if there's something unclear.