Changing the Tutorial Example code

[RussHubs]

Hi Everyone,

OK, so I have my 800x600 window with hello world written in white against a black background, made using the following code:

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print('Hello World!', 400, 300)
end

Now I have some questions, I'll try to edit this thread as I get more

1, Can you have a flash movie play in that screen? ~ On some games, theres alittle Nvidia splash screen thats played or an ATI 1, maybe an intel or an AMD splash screen might play too, then they tend to goto a menu screen, what format are these 'movies' made in?


2, How do I change that game window in a fullscreen window? ~ Solved

You can either set t.fullscreen to true in your conf.lua, or you can use love.graphics.toggleFullscreen

3, If I have my conf.lua file set to fullscreen = true, how do I position the 'hello world' text, down 10% from the top and 10% in from the left, or down 10% from the top and centered?

Regards

[nevon]

1, How do I play a flash movie in that window so the hello world message appears when the flash movie as finished playing?

You can't. Löve has no video playback, and I know of no game development frameworks that allow you to play flash files.

2, How do I change that game window in a fullscreen window?

You can either set t.fullscreen to true in your conf.lua, or you can use love.graphics.toggleFullscreen

[Lafolie]

I'm feeling generous so I'll spare you with this link man:

http://love2d.org/wiki

[bartbes]

You can't. Löve has no video playback, and I know of no game development frameworks that allow you to play flash files.

I know, flash!

[nevon]

You can't. Löve has no video playback, and I know of no game development frameworks that allow you to play flash files.

I know, flash!

Herp derp.

[nevon]

On some games, theres alittle Nvidia splash screen thats played or an ATI 1, maybe an intel or an AMD splash screen might play too, then they tend to goto a menu screen, what format are these 'movies' made in?

No, idea. But it doesn't matter, since Löve can't play any video formats whatsoever. That said, you can fake it by using images and fade them in and out or whatever it is you want to do.

[RussHubs]

I'm feeling generous so I'll spare you with this link man:

http://love2d.org/wiki

Thanks fella, I'm looking through it now, but it's still alittle complex for me, would also like to ask a question and get an answer kind of thing lol.

You never know someone else might explain things in a way even I can understand.

[RussHubs]

On some games, theres alittle Nvidia splash screen thats played or an ATI 1, maybe an intel or an AMD splash screen might play too, then they tend to goto a menu screen, what format are these 'movies' made in?

No, idea. But it doesn't matter, since Löve can't play any video formats whatsoever. That said, you can fake it by using images and fade them in and out or whatever it is you want to do.

Ok using the code in the OP, how do I display pic1.png then pic2.png for 5 seconds each, say, they are in my 'Game' folder in the GFX/Splash folder

[tentus]

Things you will need:

1) Images loaded. You can do that like this:

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function love.load() 
  img = love.graphics.newImage("GFX/Splash/pic1.png")
  img2 = love.graphics.newImage("GFX/Splash/pic2.png")
end

2) Some way of keeping track of time. I like to just use dt like this:

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function love.load() 
  img = love.graphics.newImage("GFX/Splash/pic1.png")
  img2 = love.graphics.newImage("GFX/Splash/pic2.png")
  timecount = 0
end

function love.update(dt) 
  timecount = timecount + dt
end

3) The images displayed

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function love.load() 
  img = love.graphics.newImage("GFX/Splash/pic1.png")
  img2 = love.graphics.newImage("GFX/Splash/pic2.png")
  timecount = 0
end

function love.update(dt) 
  timecount = timecount + dt
end

function love.draw()
  if timecount < 5 then
    love.graphics.draw(img, 0, 0)
  else
    love.graphics.draw(img2, 0, 0)
  end
end

Lastly you may want to do something clever to make the images fade. Keep in mind that there isn't one single way to do all this, there are many ways.