Love2D-Floating-Text

Provides an easy and efficient interface for animated floating text for Love2D

PopupTextManagerInstance:addPopup(
    {
        text = "Example Text",
        color = {r = 1, g = 0, b = 0, a = 1},
        x = 200,
        y = 200,
        scaleX = 4,
        scaleY = 4,
        fadeIn = {start = 0.2, finish = 0.7},
        fadeOut = {start = 0.7, finish = 2},
        dX = 40,
        dY = 40,
        duration = 2
    })

More examples can be found at main.lua

Features

• Input a Class base for PopupTextManager
• Use your own render function
• Move by parameters
• Circular Motion
• Fade In and Fade Out
• Blend Modes, Scaling, Rotation, Time on Screen
• Add your own font to the text

To Do

• Add a rotate by
• Add a scale by

How to

• Download class.lua, PopupText.lua, PopupTextManager.lua
• Include it by adding onto the top of your main Class = require 'class', then require 'PopupText', then require 'PopupTextManager'
• Set it updating and rendering

Thanks

• Thanks to Matthias Richter for providing class.lua file

Short Example

--Author: Marcelo Silva Nascimento Mancini
--Example of how to use
--Github: github.com/MrcSnm
--06/03/2020
Class = require 'lib/class'
require 'lib/effects/PopupText'
require 'lib/effects/PopupTextManager'

function love.load()
    gPopupManager = PopupTextManager()--Popup Classbase, Render function
    gPopupManager:addPopup(
    {
        text = "Example Text",
        font = anyFont
        color = {r = 1, g = 0, b = 0, a = 1},
        x = 200,
        y = 200,
        scaleX = 4,
        scaleY = 4,
        circular = {totalAngle = math.pi, radiusX = 40, radiusY = 40}
        blendMode = 'add',
        fadeIn = {start = 0.2, finish = 0.7},
        fadeOut = {start = 0.7, finish = 2},
        dX = 40,
        dY = 40,
        duration = 2
    })
end

function love.update(dt)
    gPopupManager:update(dt)
end

function love.draw()
    gPopupManager:render()
end