love.graphics

Types

Canvas	Off-screen render target.
Drawable	Superclass for all things that can be drawn on screen.
Font	Defines the shape of characters than can be drawn onto the screen.
Framebuffer	Off-screen render target.
GraphicsBuffer	Low-level data stored in graphics memory, including arrays of vertices, vertex indices, and custom collections of data accessible in Shaders.
Image	Drawable image type.
Mesh	A 2D polygon mesh used for drawing arbitrary textured shapes.
ParticleSystem	Used to create cool effects, like fire.
PixelEffect	Pixel shader effect.
Quad	A quadrilateral with texture coordinate information.
Shader	Shader effect.
SpriteBatch	Store image positions in a buffer, and draw it in one call.
Text	Drawable text.
TextBatch	One or more precalculated strings of text stored in a Drawable object.
Texture	Superclass for drawable objects which represent a texture.
Video	A drawable video.

Functions

love.graphics.applyTransform	Applies the given Transform object to the current coordinate transformation.
love.graphics.arc	Draws an arc.
love.graphics.captureScreenshot	Creates a screenshot once the current frame is done.
love.graphics.checkMode	Checks if a display mode is supported.
love.graphics.circle	Draws a circle.
love.graphics.clear	Clears the screen or active Canvas to the specified color.
love.graphics.copyBuffer	Copies the contents of one GraphicsBuffer to another.
love.graphics.discard	Discards the contents of the screen or active Canvas.
love.graphics.draw	Draws objects on screen.
love.graphics.drawInstanced	Draws many instances of a Mesh with a single draw call, using hardware geometry instancing.
love.graphics.drawLayer	Draws a layer of an Array Texture.
love.graphics.drawq	Draw a Quad with the specified Image on screen.
love.graphics.ellipse	Draws an ellipse.
love.graphics.flushBatch	Immediately renders any pending automatically batched draws.
love.graphics.getBackgroundColor	Gets the current background color.
love.graphics.getBlendMode	Gets the blending mode.
love.graphics.getCanvas	Returns the current target Canvas.
love.graphics.getCanvasFormats	Gets the available Canvas formats, and whether each is supported.
love.graphics.getCaption	Gets the window caption.
love.graphics.getColor	Gets the current color.
love.graphics.getColorMask	Gets the active color components used when drawing.
love.graphics.getColorMode	Gets the color mode (which controls how images are affected by the current color).
love.graphics.getCompressedImageFormats	Gets the available compressed image formats, and whether each is supported.
love.graphics.getDPIScale	Gets the DPI scale factor of the window.
love.graphics.getDefaultFilter	Returns the default scaling filters used with Images, Canvases, and Fonts.
love.graphics.getDefaultImageFilter	Returns the default scaling filters.
love.graphics.getDepthMode	Gets the current depth test mode and whether writing to the depth buffer is enabled.
love.graphics.getDimensions	Gets the width and height of the window.
love.graphics.getFont	Gets the current Font object.
love.graphics.getFrontFaceWinding	Gets whether triangles with clockwise- or counterclockwise-ordered vertices are considered front-facing.
love.graphics.getHeight	Gets the height in pixels of the window.
love.graphics.getImageFormats	Gets the pixel formats usable for Images, and whether each is supported.
love.graphics.getLineJoin	Gets the line join style.
love.graphics.getLineStipple	Gets the current line stipple.
love.graphics.getLineStyle	Gets the line style.
love.graphics.getLineWidth	Gets the current line width.
love.graphics.getMaxImageSize	Gets the max supported width or height of Images and Canvases.
love.graphics.getMaxPointSize	Gets the max supported point size.
love.graphics.getMeshCullMode	Gets whether back-facing triangles in a Mesh are culled.
love.graphics.getMode	Returns the current display mode.
love.graphics.getModes	Gets a list of supported fullscreen modes.
love.graphics.getPixelDimensions	Gets the width and height in pixels of the window.
love.graphics.getPixelEffect	Returns the current PixelEffect.
love.graphics.getPixelHeight	Gets the height in pixels of the window.
love.graphics.getPixelWidth	Gets the width in pixels of the window.
love.graphics.getPointSize	Gets the point size.
love.graphics.getPointStyle	Gets the current point style.
love.graphics.getRendererInfo	Gets information about the system's video card and drivers.
love.graphics.getScissor	Gets the current scissor box.
love.graphics.getShader	Gets the current Shader.
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Enums

AlignMode	Text alignment.
ArcType	Different types of arcs that can be drawn.
AttributeDataType	Data types used in a Mesh's vertex format.
BlendAlphaMode	Different ways alpha affects color blending.
BlendMode	Different ways to do color blending.
BufferDataFormat	Data formats of individual array elements GraphicsBuffers and Meshes.
BufferDataUsage	Usage hints for SpriteBatches, Meshes, and GraphicsBuffers to optimize data storage and access.
CanvasFormat	Canvas texture formats.
ColorMode	Controls how drawn images are affected by current color.
CompareMode	Different types of stencil test and depth test comparisons.
CullMode	How Mesh geometry is culled when rendering.
DrawMode	Controls whether shapes are drawn as an outline, or filled.
FilterMode	How the image is filtered when scaling.
GraphicsFeature	Graphics features that can be checked for with love.graphics.getSupported.
GraphicsLimit	Types of system-dependent graphics limits.
ImageFlag	Image flags.
IndexDataType	Vertex map datatype.
LineJoin	Line join style.
LineStyle	The styles in which lines are drawn.
MeshDrawMode	How a Mesh's vertices are used when drawing.
MipmapMode	Controls whether a Canvas has mipmaps, and its behaviour when it does.
PixelFormat	Pixel formats for Textures, ImageData, and CompressedImageData.
PointStyle	How points should be drawn.
StackType	Graphics state stack types used with love.graphics.push.
StencilAction	How a stencil function modifies the stencil values of pixels it touches.
TextureFormat	Controls the canvas texture format.
TextureType	Types of textures (2D, cubemap, etc.)
VertexAttributeStep	The frequency at which a vertex shader fetches the vertex attribute's data from the Mesh when it's drawn.
VertexWinding	Vertex winding.
WrapMode	How the image wraps inside a large Quad.

See Also

• love