Side scrolling help..

[Incrypt]

How Would I be able to make a side scroller using the x and y axis?

I am completely new to lua and coding and I have no frikken idea.

So far I have made my character move in all 4 directions But I cant make the collision go to the bottom or right so I decided to make it a side scroller.

If you can I'd appreciate it if you give me a code to make the character touch the bottom of the window without dissapearing.

[Roland_Yonaba]

If you can I'd appreciate it if you give me a code to make the character touch the bottom of the window without dissapearing.

That's fairly simple.
Assuming the character is represented by a rectangle, if you want your character not to go down after a certain limit:

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function love.update(dt)
  character.y = character.y+dt
  local limit = love.graphics.getHeight()
  if character.y+character.height> limit then
    character.y = limit - character.height
  end
end

In the following example, I chose the window's height as a limit.
Hope this helps.

[Incrypt]

Unfortunately that didn't work but I'll give you the files.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Try to implement this by yourself.
More pointers.

Store the player's width and height in the player table (player.lua). You can use Image:getWidth, Image:getHeight for that.
Then update your collide function (still in player.lua) using the pointers I gave above. The idea is pretty simple here: you don't want the player to go off the screen height, for instance, so player.y+player.height should never go over the window's height. This implies that player.y should not not go over the window's height minus the player's height.
Same logic on x-axis, if you don't want to player to go off the right edge of the screen.

Hope this helps.

[Helvecta]

Hiya!

I slapped together a little somethin-somethin. What'cha gotta do is tell the program, "Hey, while I'm moving this direction, make sure I'm not past the screen!", like so:

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  if love.keyboard.isDown("right") and player.x < love.graphics.getWidth() - player.width then
    player.x = player.x + 1
  end

This doesn't answer your question completely, but I'm not in the business of making side-scrolling engines from scratch; these tutorials might be a relevant to your interests, and even if it's not, these may help teach you the foundations of the language.

Hope this helped you, if even a little! (The attachment is just the same thing but with collision checks for when you move any particular direction)

[Incrypt]

Ahh thank you very much.