Tag: display programming
Glow Effect for Lined Shapes in Love2D
Posted on July 16, 2011 in Tutorials
Recently I experimented with an easy way to make lined shapes glow (using LÖVE of course). There are of course other ways of doing it, and there are many styles of glow that can be used, but this is the one I came up with. love.graphics.setColor(r, g, b, 15) for i = 7, 2, -1 do if i == 2 then i = 1 love.graphics.setColor(r, g, b, 255) end love.graphics.setLineWidth(i) -- draw lined shape here...
Cameras in Love2D Part 3: Movement Bounds
Posted on May 09, 2011 in Tutorials
Because there was some interest in a part 3, of this series, I've written it, and in this part we'll cover creating bounds that the camera can't move beyond. Make sure you've read part 1 and part 2 before continuing. In case you're wondering what I mean by this, I mean restricting the movement of the camera to a "box", as in, having minimum and maximum x/y coordinates for the camera. This comes in handy...
Draw Origins in Love2D
Posted on May 06, 2011 in Tutorials
In this post I'm going to be showing you origins when drawing stuff in Love2D. First of all, what are origins? They specify the offset for the origin of the object's x/y coordinates. In other words, if you specify the x origin to be 20, the object will be drawn 20 pixels to the left, as in x - 20. It's the same for the y origin: if we have a y origin of 20,...
Cameras in Love2D Part 2: Parallax Scrolling
Posted on April 22, 2011 in Tutorials
In part 1 we constructed a basic camera. Now we're going to extend it by adding some parallax scrolling. Note that the method I'll use is probably not the prettiest, as I came up with it in half an hour. Nevertheless, this will be a starting point for you to develop your own system. What Is It? Now, for those who don't know, what is parallax scrolling? It's a way to get a pseudo-3D effect...
Cameras in Love2D Part 1: The Basics
Posted on April 19, 2011 in Tutorials
This is the first of a couple of blogs on creating cameras in the LÖVE engine. This part will deal with the fundamentals of creating a camera. Part two will deal with parallax scrolling and creating layers. So, let's get to it! Update: I've actually ended up writing a part 3, which covers restricting camera movement. The Functions The functions we'll need are these: love.graphics.pop love.graphics.push love.graphics.translate love.graphics.rotate love.graphics.scale Love2D (I'll use this name from...
