LÖVE

I need to load images outside of .exe/.love file.
I'm trying to load image that lies next to .exe/.love. Getting an error, ofc. "Does not exist".
It load's if i pack it into .love, but it's useless.
Hopefully you understood this mess.

Short answer: you can only read from the .love itself, and read from / write to the save directory, if you set the project's identity with either a conf.lua file, or the function love.filesystem.setIdentity. (you can drag files/folders from anywhere and use the love.filedropped and love.directorydropped callbacks though)

Long answer: lua's own io functions are able to access arbitrary locations, but it's not cross-platform and will be a pain to get to work right.

Check out the description and example in the love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory wiki page.