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This is my first game. Ever. This is also my first forum post. With that out of the way, I would like to discuss my issue.
Since this is my first game, alot of the code I use it based off of tutorials. So...yeah.
I've used this code before, for testing, etc. When I tried to run it this time, I got this error:
Player.lua:22: attempted to perform arithmetic on field "speed" (a nil value)

Traceback:
player.lua:22: in function player_move
main.lua:10: in function update
[C:]in function xpcall

Here's my code:
main.lua

require "player"

function love.load()



end
function love.update(dt)

player_move()

end
function love.draw()

player_draw()

end

player.lua


player = {}
player.X = 400
player.Y = 300
player.Speed = 5
player.Health = 100
player.Damage = 10

player = love.graphics.newImage("Graphics/Main dude/player.jpg")

function player_draw()

love.graphics.draw(player,player.X,player.Y)

end
function player_move()

if love.keyboard.isDown("left") then
player.X = player.X - player.Speed*dt
elseif love.keyboard.isDown("right") then
player.X = player.X + player.Speed*dt
end

end

player = {}
player.X = 400
player.Y = 300
player.Speed = 5
player.Health = 100
player.Damage = 10

player = love.graphics.newImage("Graphics/Main dude/player.jpg")

function player_draw()

love.graphics.draw(player,player.X,player.Y)

end
function player_move()

if love.keyboard.isDown("left") then
player.X = player.X - player.Speed*dt
elseif love.keyboard.isDown("right") then
player.X = player.X + player.Speed*dt
end

end

If anyone can give me any help, tips, whatever. Whatever works. Everything is appreciated.

Hi and welcome to the forum,

this line means that you are trying to use a field called "speed" and this does not exist. This is probably, because it should be "Speed" (with a capital letter).

One advice for future posts: Put your code into code-tags. That way it gets formatted and is easier to read. Just click on the Code button when you write a post and insert the code in between.

micha wrote: this line

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Player.lua:22: attempted to perform arithmetic on field "speed" (a nil value)

means that you are trying to use a field called "speed" and this does not exist. This is probably, because it should be "Speed" (with a capital letter).

One advice for future posts: Put your code into code-tags. That way it gets formatted and is easier to read. Just click on the Code button when you write a post and insert the code in between.

I wrote all of that down. Rather than copy and pasting it, because... I don't think you can do that. I created a tiny project just so I could test out the same code, and it seemed to work. It worked every other time on every other project. What might be the problem with that?

Also, I shall. Thank you for your time.

Eh, is this dead or something?

I think nobody really had an answer; I'm not sure I really understand your question. Can you elaborate a bit more and what you want to know?

What Plu said. Please read the forum rules. In particular, upload a .love of your game if you want us to help you with a problem, and explain precisely what that problem is.

Robin wrote:What Plu said. Please read the forum rules. In particular, upload a .love of your game if you want us to help you with a problem, and explain precisely what that problem is.

Yus, thanks. I shall do that.

Plu wrote:I think nobody really had an answer; I'm not sure I really understand your question. Can you elaborate a bit more and what you want to know?

I can. I'm not sure what you want me to elaborate on specifically, so I'll give you more detail. The code above, which I've used before, seems to not work. I have no idea why. It's exactly the same as it's always been. I don't really know where I went wrong, so I can't really say more than that.

Thinking about it, maybe I should just delete the code and write it all back up. There isn't much, so I'm sure it'll be easy.

Efbrefus wrote:

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player = {}

--(...)

player = love.graphics.newImage("Graphics/Main dude/player.jpg")

That seems to be a problem. You override the player table with a newImage. It should be fixed if you change that line to something like:
And then of course in your player_draw function, change the name of the image variable to player.image as well.

Holy Christ, I never noticed that. Lemme try that out.

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