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What is it?

Nixola wrote:What is it?

player.box=collider:addRectangle(blahblhablha)

In order to assign a player.box.player value, player.box must be a table, and it is not a table... I can't index it this way :/

print(type(player.box)) afret player.box=collider:etc

Nixola wrote:print(type(player.box)) afret player.box=collider:etc

it prints out table :S:S:S i thought that it would print out shape..

But anyways its working now . Although i didn't fully get what is going on here :S:S:S

i assigned a shape type (collider:addRectangle(etc)) in player.box

then i assigned player.box.player=player which means that i actually indexed a shape type :S:S:S:S

Except if collider:addRectangle produces tables and not shapes

In Lua, basically everything is a table. HardonCollider (which I assume you're using) is written in Lua. Tables are really flexible.

Robin wrote:In Lua, basically everything is a table. HardonCollider (which I assume you're using) is written in Lua. Tables are really flexible.

Didn't know that to be honest . I just read the hardoncollider documentation concerning the shapes module, and thats why i discovered too, its indeed a table... And i do agree that they are flexible .

gregkwaste wrote:

Robin wrote:In Lua, basically everything is a table. HardonCollider (which I assume you're using) is written in Lua. Tables are really flexible.

Didn't know that to be honest . I just read the hardoncollider documentation concerning the shapes module, and thats why i discovered too, its indeed a table... And i do agree that they are flexible .

Tables are essentially the core thing around all Lua is built. For successfully code in Lua you should start asap read and do even some Lua tutorials about tables. Unless you do that Lua/LOVE world and potentialities will stay "locked" for you.

This book is all you need to know/learn about Lua programming. It was written by one of the founders of the language, and it is pretty easy and enjoyable to read. Buy it, borrow it, download it, steal it...heck, do what you want, but get a copy of it!
Lua is built around the concept of flexibility, and that comes from the fact that it has only one data structure (yes, you guessed it...) - tables. variables are tables, arrays are tables, functions can be thought of as a cell in a table, even the entire program you write is a table.

Thanks a lot for all the input, its an absolute relief for me that everything is a table just because i am very comfortable with using them and basicaly it was easy for me to understand everything as tables as well, and to be honest i definetely did not expect that EVERYTHING would be like that in lua .

I'll try to get somehow this book and find out every detail i am missing .

gregkwaste wrote:Thanks a lot for all the input, its an absolute relief for me that everything is a table just because i am very comfortable with using them and basicaly it was easy for me to understand everything as tables as well, and to be honest i definetely did not expect that EVERYTHING would be like that in lua .

I'll try to get somehow this book and find out every detail i am missing .

Or eventually, read the free online version.