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Dr.Tyler O. wrote:Is it possible to use Fixture:setFilterData() while still letting those fixtures produce collision callbacks? I'm aware that it sounds silly but the collision callbacks are what I'm using to detect whether the players in my video game touch items. I just don't want the items to slow the player down with collisions.

Turning the Fixture into a sensor might be what you want, rather than using collision filtering.

slime wrote:Turning the Fixture into a sensor might be what you want, rather than using collision filtering.

But, from my understanding, sensors don't collide with anything. I need to make it so that the body only collides with static bodies.

Then have a look at [wiki]Fixture:setCategory[/wiki], [wiki]Fixture:setMask[/wiki] and [wiki]Fixture:setFilterData[/wiki].

Ah thanks slime, didn't know you didn't have to use all the indices. My knowledge of C++ is very limited. It's very sad, I know assembly more than C++.

In XNA you can add any texture to a single spritebatch, in Love2D you need a separate spritebatch for every separate texture. What's up with that?

The concept behind a LÖVE SpriteBatch is a little different from the concept behind an XNA SpriteBatch, even though they have the same name. LÖVE's can get drastically better performance in many situations as a result, but they're slightly less flexible.

Switching between different textures within a single begin-end pair an XNA SpriteBatch comes at a performance cost, and that cost would be there in LÖVE as well if that feature was implemented. You'll get the best performance in both frameworks by using Quads (or their equivalent) with a texture atlas and a SpriteBatch.

slime wrote:The concept behind a LÖVE SpriteBatch is a little different from the concept behind an XNA SpriteBatch, even though they have the same name. LÖVE's can get drastically better performance in many situations as a result, but they're slightly less flexible.

Switching between different textures within a single begin-end pair an XNA SpriteBatch comes at a performance cost, and that cost would be there in LÖVE as well if that feature was implemented. You'll get the best performance in both frameworks by using Quads (or their equivalent) with a texture atlas and a SpriteBatch.

Is there a possibility you guys could add another spritebatch class that'd behave like it does in XNA? I am using an atlas texture + quads + spritebatch to draw the world, but for misc objects I'm in a need of said flexibility that the XNA spritebatch provides.

How would I add multiple shaders to the same image? This obviously wouldn't work since the second shader would overrule the first one.
So I guess I need to draw the image to a canvas, apply the first shader, update the canvas and then apply the second shader to the canvas? If so, should the canvas be updated in the update() callback?

How would one delete an entity? Like, completely wipe it from the current game. I.e, once an enemy is defeated, to delete it completely so it doesn't show up, follow the player, do anything that it would normally do.

Usually entities are stored in a table, so to get rid of it you find its key in that table and then set that value to NIL.

Of course, the harder part is to make sure that any other references to it are also dropped, but that depends a bit on how your game is designed, I think.