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viviavi wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 2:49 am im currently working on my first game, and i have a way to brute force a functionality thats good enough for this project, but with significantly more lines of code than id likely need if i could figure out how to call an array.

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Counter = 0 

function love.load ()
    require "enemy" 
        enemy = Enemy()
        enemy2 = Enemy()
        enemy3 = Enemy()
        enemy4 = Enemy()
            --[[ect... 

function love.update(dt) 

Counter = Counter + dt

 
 if counter >= 0 then 
      enemy:update(dt)
end
  if Counter >= 3 then
      enemy2:update(dt)
end
  if Counter >= 6 then
      enemy3:update(dt)
 end
  if Counter >= 8.6 then
      enemy4:update(dt)
end
    --[[ ect... 

and than doing the same thing in love. draw() with the same numbers but draw instead of update.

i know how to set up an array to draw something every time a key is pressed, but im not sure how to call it once my counter variable reaches certain numbers

additionally, how would i increase the required counter number each time the array draws a new object?

 -- require lib:
Enemy = require ("enemy") 

function love.load ()-- set counter
	Counter = 0
	enemy1 = Enemy:newEnemy (Counter)
	enemy2 = Enemy:newEnemy (Counter + 3)
	enemy3 = Enemy:newEnemy (Counter + 6)
	enemy4 = Enemy:newEnemy (Counter + 8.6)
	enemies = {enemy1, enemy2, enemy3, enemy4}
end

function love.update (dt)
	Counter = Counter + dt
	for i, enemy in ipairs (enemies) do
		enemy:update (Counter)
	end
end

-- same in love.draw

function love.update (dt)
	for i, enemy in ipairs (enemies) do
		enemy:update (dt)
	end
end