Difference between revisions of "Quad"

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A quadrilateral (a polygon with four sides and four corners) with texture coordinate information.

Quads can be used to select part of a texture to draw. In this way, one large texture atlas can be loaded, and then split up into sub-images.

love.graphics.newQuad	Creates a new Quad.

Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.
Quad:flip	Flips this quad horizontally, vertically, or both.
Quad:getLayer	Gets the layer specified by Quad:setLayer.
Quad:getTextureDimensions	Gets reference texture dimensions initially specified in love.graphics.newQuad.
Quad:getViewport	Gets the current viewport of this Quad.
Quad:setLayer	Sets the layer to use in Array Textures.
Quad:setViewport	Sets the texture coordinates according to a viewport.

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	Quads can be used to select part of a texture to draw. In this way, one large [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas texture atlas] can be loaded, and then split up into sub-images.		Quads can be used to select part of a texture to draw. In this way, one large [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas texture atlas] can be loaded, and then split up into sub-images.