Hi, everyone, i’m really new at this, so i tried to do the tutorial, but i got stuck in a part and i don’t know what’s wrong.
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I was trying to attach the code, but I can’t, bacause i’m new. So, I accidentaly sent this for mistake.
Ok, but the link to the tutorial is this: https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/programming/02/index.html
So, what I wanted to do was put the ship, the lives and the score in the screen with the background. Like the tutorial, i have done this:
<local backGroup = display.newGroup()
local mainGroup = display.newGroup()
local uiGroup = display.newGroup()
local background = display.newImageRect( backGroup, “background.png”, 800, 1400 )
background.x = display.contentCenterX
background.y = display.contentCenterY
ship = display.newImageRect( mainGroup, objectSheet, 4, 98, 79 )
ship.x = display.contentCenterX
ship.y = display.contentHeight - 100
physics.addBody( ship, { radius = 30, isSensor = true } )
ship.myName = “ship”
livesText = display.newText( uiGroup, "Lives: " … lives, 200, 80, native.systemFont, 36 )
scoreText = display.newText( uiGroup, "Score: " … score, 400, 80, native.systemFont, 36 )
display.setStatusBar( display.HiddenStatusBar )
local function updateText()
livesText.text = "Lives: " … lives
scoreText.text = " Score: " … score
end />
I think the mistake is here, because the simulator only shows the background, and this is the part of the code that should do that.
Looking at your code, it seems that you skipped Loading Image Sheets part of the tutorial which breaks your code when creating the ship from the image sheet.
ship = display.newImageRect( mainGroup, objectSheet, 4, 98, 79 )
This part breaks because there is no objectSheet at the moment. If you create and initialize objectSheet before that part like it does in tutorial, this should work.
By the way, there are links to the whole sample project in the tutorial. You can always download and inspect the code.
The problem is that i have done that, i simply didn’t copied it to here.
local sheetOptions =
{
frames =
{
{ – 1) asteróide 1
x = 0,
y = 0,
width = 102,
height = 85
},
{ – 2) asteróide 2
x = 0,
y = 85,
width = 90,
height = 83
},
{ – 3) asteróide 3
x = 0,
y = 168,
width = 100,
height = 97
},
{ – 4) nave
x = 0,
y = 265,
width = 98,
height = 79
},
{ – 5) laser
x = 98,
y = 265,
width = 14,
height = 40
},
},
}
local objectSheet = graphics.newImageSheet( “gameObjects.png”, sheetOptions )
Here it is.
And I have compared it with the code they provide and it’s the same code.
Ok, I found the mistake, it’s all working, the problem was the resolution the simulator was using, he wasn’t showing, but know i changed the resolution and it’s all there. Thanks, anyway.