A library of utility classes for Love2d
I found myself reusing the same sorts of classes in different games over and over again, to handle points on a grid, or animation, or callbacks with timers. So, I stopped just copying these files into each new game, and made them into a library.
- First, clone this repository into some directory in your game, like "sonnet".
- Then, if you want to pull in all the classes, put
require('sonnet')at the top of main.lua (or wherever). If you cloned it into a directory other than "sonnet" then use that name instead. - If you just want to use some classes, then require them individually:
require('sonnet.Tween')for example.
I don't have full documentation finished yet, but this is a list of available classes and what they do:
- Point represents a point on a 2d plane
- List and Set are ordered and unordered data structures respectively
- Map handles a square grid of tiles
- SparseMap is like Map but more efficient for a grid in which most of the cells are empty
- Clock will call a function repeatedly on a timer
- Promise will allow you to perform an action when an asynchronous operation finishes
- Tween smoothly changes a value between two limits
More to come!
I'm Ross Andrews, and I write Lua as a hobby. My blog is Play With Lua!