Using Loop to animate Sprites

[sabino]

Hi there,
I've just learnt how to animate sprite using love.graphics.newQuad(),
I've also read how to use a loop to animate sprites,
the example is:

for i=1,8 do
love.graphics.newQuad((i-1)*32, 0, 32, 32, 256, 32)
end

What does i=1,8 mean?
Thank you

[bdjnk]

What does i=1,8 mean?

Whenever I have a question about Lua, I visit these sites (the links take you to the relevent section on for loops):

• The lua-users wiki (usually the most helpful, has various tips and tricks).
  The Lua Reference Manual (mostly useful if you just need a reminder or an exact technical explanation).
  And Programming in Lua (probably the easiest for beginners, but I find the style difficult to read).

[Rukiri]

The easiest way to animate frames is.
Width, Height of the actual spritesheet.
Number of frames in the sprite sheet.

So say your walking "down" frames starts at frame 1 and goes to frame 5, you loop 1-5.
I swear there was documentation covering spritesheets...

Generally for loops work like this.

so say I'm checking to see if my party is less than three.

for i=1, RPG:Party<=3, i++
// Add people to meh party
end
else
print "Sorry, you have to many people in your party!"
end

[kikito]

I wrote about this in my love-tile-tutorial.

Start here:

https://github.com/kikito/love-tile-tut ... c-concepts

And keep reading until you reach a chapter called "0c loops". It's explained there.

Then you can keep reading to learn more stuff if you want.