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rmcode wrote:...

Any ideas?

^        -- start of the line
%s*       -- any leading space there might be
(         -- capture
[%g%s]*     -- zero or more spaces or characters 
%g         -- a last character (so the space before the '=' doesn't get captured
)
%s*       -- all the space up to the '='
%s*       -- any space preceding the value
(.+)$     -- the rest of the value (and force that there is something there)

rmcode wrote:(...) worked in Javascript and I tried to "blindly" port it to Lua.

w=t>>9,k=32,m=2048,a=1-t/m%1,d=(14*t*t^t)%m*a,y=[3,3,4.7,2][p=w/k&3]*t/4,h="IQNNNN!!]]!Q!IW]WQNN??!!W]WQNNN?".charCodeAt(w/2&15|p/3<<4)/33*t-t,s=y*.98%80+y%80+(w>>7&&a*((5*t%m*a&128)*(0x53232323>>w/4&1)+(d&127)*(0xa444c444>>w/4&1)*1.5+(d*w&1)+(h%k+h*1.99%k+h*.49%k+h*.97%k-64)*(4-a-a))),s*s>>14?127:s

XxHAMADEHxX wrote:I only get the first argument.

love.math.random() -- returns a (real) number between 0 and 1, inclusive, uniformly distributed.
love.math.random(max) -- returns a (whole) number between 0 and max, inclusive, uniformly distributed.
love.math.random(min,max) -- returns a (whole) number between min and max, inclusive, uniformly distributed.
-- and if you want any other type, like, a real number between min and max, you might do it like this:
function myrandom(min, max)
  min, max = math.min(min, max), math.max(min, max)
  return -min + love.math.random() * (min+max)
end

XxHAMADEHxX wrote:I'm really confused about math.random and love.math.random

Whenever I use something like this love.math.random(20,300)
I only get the first argument. Why is that?

Thanks friends

Taehl wrote:

eliasfrost wrote:Hi! I'm currently getting into programming games again and I'm trying to make a breakout clone. I'm having trouble with calculating the reflecting angle when the ball bounces on a surface.
...
I've searched on google but the answers I've gotten seems like overkill. calculating velocity components with the normal of a surface or something, I'm not a physics graduate so I have no idea what they are talking about and finding comprehensible resources is hard.

Or maybe there's an even simpler way of doing things and I'm just on the wrong track? If someone feel like they can help me a bit please do.

As long as you don't have angled surfaces or anything fancy like that, there's a simple age-old trick you can use (heck, the original Breakout probably even did this). Whenever your ball hits something, check if it hit vertically or horizontally, and simply multiply your y-velocity or x-velocity (respectively) by -1.

So it your ball is moving right and touches a wall on the right, all it needs to do is travel left at the same speed now. Hence the *-1 of your x-velocity.

zorg wrote:lua's math.random is not seeded