LÖVE

Hi all!
I explored löve 1 week ago and I'm very happy with it
I will ask my questions here, in this thread. Now I just have one:

SCROLLING

I am a newbie at game dev, but I did some simple stuff in C++ with SDL. Basically you can copy surfaces, or part of them on top of other surfaces. I had a big "game world" surface and I cut out screensized pieces of it and basically scrolling was done.
But you can't copy surfaces (images) on top of each other in Löve, so I can't make the big "world surface".
How should I make scrolling here? Please help me.

The easiest way of doing that is using an offset: Further, there are a lot of games on this forum you can look at, to see how they did something.

Good luck and welcome.

thanks
wow it is really great that basically if you download a game you can inspect the source

OUT wrote:wow it is really great that basically if you download a game you can inspect the source

It certainly is.

teehee!
I found the orgasmic CAMERA class!

p.s. the wiki is awesome as well

I must tell you that with the coming release of 0.6.0 CAMERA is becoming near-obsolete, for my own game I've decided on dropping it when I get around to it.

I see, thanks for the tip

anyway I have a new problem:

as a first project, today I made PONG. Good learning experience.
The top and the bottom of the screen are shapes of a static body in the physics world.
The player walls are also shapes of static bodies, if the players push their buttons, I modify their positions with body:setPosition().

There is only 1 dynamic object, the ball itself.
The problem is when there is the serving phase, I randomize the starting velocities of the ball, I set these with body:setvelocity().
The ball won't move at all UNLESS I set gravity in the physics world, which obviously is just PLAIN BAD in this game. I dont want any gravity!

I got to set the gravity at least ~ (0, 1) or the ball won't move at all. I made the program print out the randomized and current velocity values of the ball. If there is no gravity, it will print that the ball has for example a velocity = -120, 70 but it won't move at all.

Could someone explain this to me?

This is not directly related to gravity. You see, what I think has happened is that the ball "fell asleep". You need to call :setSleep(false) on the body at the start of every update. In LÖVE 0.6.0 you will be able to just call :setAllowSleep(false) on the body once after it is created.

wow thanks for the fast answer ! this forum is cool.
now i can go to sleep with this stuff being solved

I'll just consider this thread to be a reason for me not to post a new thread asking a newbie question.

Does anyone have a simple example of basic collision? I just need something to give me an idea of how it works, so I kind implement it into my own code.