Can you make Love2d's Identity Not Be Inside the LOVE Folder

[SquareMan]

First off, sorry if this has been asked before, I searched and couldn't find it.

So when you use love.filesystem.setIdentity(path) or t.identity in the conf.lua file, it appends what you put to a directory called LOVE in your appdata directory, giving me a path such as C:\Users\<user>\appdata\Roaming\LOVE\<identity>

I'm wondering if I could get a path such as C:\Users\<user>\appdata\Roaming\<identity>
i've tried using "\b\b\b\bidentity"
and even string.format("\b\b\b\bidentity")

but love2d seems to ignore the backspace escape character for setting the identity

Any help would be appreciated!

[BlackBulletIV]

First, you need to set t.release to true inside your love.conf function:

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function love.conf(t)
  t.identity = "game-name"
  t.release = true
end

When you fuse your game and distribute it, LÖVE will make the game save in its own folder. See wiki pages Config_Files and Game_Distribution for more information.

[SquareMan]

Thanks so much, why does it seem all the things I can't figure out how to do end up being the simplest things in the world?

[qaisjp]

Thanks so much, why does it seem all the things I can't figure out how to do end up being the simplest things in the world?

Because you don't read the entire wiki homepage links

[BlackBulletIV]

No worries. And yeah, remember that the wiki is your friend.

[Bigmacbook]

I don't want my game files to be in a folder called LOVE, so how can I change that?

[Lafolie]

I don't want my game files to be in a folder called LOVE, so how can I change that?

Use the standard lua io library. This is less than desirable though; you'd have to write your own means of doing what love.filesystem does.

[Nixola]

conf.lua

[BlackBulletIV]

Use the standard lua io library. This is less than desirable though; you'd have to write your own means of doing what love.filesystem does.

No, I wouldn't recommend that. Simply set t.release to true in love.conf:

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function love.conf(t)
  t.identity = "folder-name"
  t.release = true
end

From what I gather, you're meant to use this when your game is final (or, released).

EDIT: I just realised this was the original question of the topic, which I answered before. In future, Bigmacbook, try reading some of the answers given already, instead of repeating the topic's question.

[parallax7d]

This is an old thread, but it still comes up in search results, so i thought I would update with my 2 cents.

I just tested on 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 on mac os 10.6. All i needed to do was 'fuse' the game using these instructions, and it created my game's save folder in ~/Library/Application Support/game not ~/Library/Application Support/LOVE/game. For mac at least it doesn't seem to need the t.identity variable set in conf.lua, but i'm leaving it in just in case other platforms use it.