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Hello, love community!

I just wanted to ask if there is a certain way to create stages / rooms properly.
What I'm currently have in mind is to create a table of invisible bounding boxes like this: Then loading a graphics on top of that like I am not trying to achieve a big room though, just a big world divided into small parts. I am currently creating a 2D Sidescroller RPG like the old Valkyrie Profile games. It has small but many rooms to explore. Also, I don't like using tilesets because I feel like I'm limited to square tiles, or am I incorrect? Anyway, to create a stage, I am planning to render it first in 3D and capture a 2D image from it. Same goes for creating spritesheets. 3D model then capture the 2D poses. etc.

Will it have an impact from the speed of the game? or is there a particular technique that can be used other than this?

EDIT:
Also, is there a way to insert the stage design from a text document?
For example, I have stg.txt: then in main.lua then when I try printing using print(self.stageDesign[1][1]) it gives me an error.
It appears that it is storing them as a string which becomes Any ideas how?

You can directly load lua files and use those as data storage.

main.lua level1.lua:

Azhukar wrote:You can directly load lua files and use those as data storage.

main.lua

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local level1 = love.filesystem.load("level1.lua")()
print(level1[2][1]) --prints 2

level1.lua:

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local leveldata = {
	{1,1,1,1},
	{2,0,0,1},
	{1,1,1,1},
}

return leveldata

Amazing! I didn't know that can be done. Thank you very much, sir!

I wrote a tutorial exactly about this very topic:

https://github.com/kikito/love-tile-tutorial

Just replace "drawq" with "draw".

kikito wrote:I wrote a tutorial exactly about this very topic:

https://github.com/kikito/love-tile-tutorial

Just replace "drawq" with "draw".

Ahh, thank you very much! That would be really helpful.
Well I'm now considering using tiles... hmm