Love2D Tutorial | Simple Main Menu UI

[@GR-uh7me]

I like this tutorial but I think the music is distracting

[@Codethe_Road]

True;

[@nac9880]

Focus on the tutorial

[@winksplorer]

Music:stop()

[@EndlessMike]

As a general principle it's best to let the user determine tha background sure, but I am diggin this track

[@Andy-Christian]

Yup. I was thinking the same thing.

[@Lopoi]

That is a good base for a menu system. You could also use printf to draw formatted text and align it to center to not need to calculate the position of the text, but that would prevent you from rotating the text. (at least thats what I did)

[@SkyVaultGames]

Thats a great point, Ill talk more about printf when I do a tutorial on message boxes :)

[@stanosipenko7305]

I was literally stuck on making a good UI system for my game, thanks for the video dude!

[@stop8576]

u the guy on love2d discord

[@drakien3214]

It helped me out programing game with writer freind

[@domsau2]

I'm not native English: please, the music is too loud. No music is better. I've my own music. Thanks.

[@29void71]

Amazing video. Clear and concise and it WORKS!

[@KasperKenDev]

I’ve been looking for something more text editor friendly since I like Vim too. Did you have any challenges vs godot or unity?

[@vaishnav_mallya]

Hey man! Thank you for making love 2D tutorials. Very few people still make tutorials on it. Btw are you in love2D discord server?

[@SkyVaultGames]

Glad you enjoyed! I'm not, I totally should join though.

[@vaishnav_mallya]

@@SkyVaultGames here you go discord.gg/tmcWnqe

[@zwillx3953]

Thanks for the video! It may seem small but I went through a year of programming class and didn't learn what you did with the button# reference for vertical spacing. That kept so much out of the for/ do loop!! Can I ask what that reference is called so I can learn it in other languages? The array index button# is definitely concise- is that an example of why people swear by Lua? Thanks for the vids, excellent work

[@marklee8022]

Everything works fine up until around 10:40, where we start using the 'bx' and 'by' variables to print the actual text onto the buttons. I've been through the whole video up to that point several times and I'm pretty sure my code painstakingly duplicates yours, but the words don't appear on the buttons! I tried changing the color of the text hoping for some kind of clue and, indeed, way off to the left, partially off - screen & nowhere near the buttons, a couple of the text labels can be seen all tiny & smooshed together. I'm an amateur, so I'm sure the problem is obvious to others, but after several hours of this I'm ready to throw my computer against the wall. Anybody feel like enlightening me? Would be most grateful. Thanks

[@zzzman9287]

It sounds like it could be your "love.graphics.print" code. Do you have these values: love.graphics.print( button.text, font, ( ww * 0.5 ) - textW * 0.5, by + textH * 0.5 ) Try copying and pasting this into your code if it looks different to yours because it works for me.

[@DimitrisVasil]

Can I get the source for this anywhere?

[@cgme9535]

Thank you for this quick and informative video!

[@МадиТургунов-у5л]

it only works for the last button for me somehow

[@samanthaperry4543]

same this happened to me and I'm not sure why the loop doesn't display all of the buttons...

[@МадиТургунов-у5л]

@@samanthaperry4543 ask it on reddit.com/r/love2d there are a lot of helpful people there

[@broomybroomybroomy]

To get started, turn your music up to 300% volume

[@technov1king]

what editor are you using, seems like it is predicting sometimes exact what you need. Like pasting the formula or the colors.

[@zakatsu_8637]

thanks for the video helped a lot in my love 2d journey👍👍

[@darksidebidi]

Hi, loved the video, how do i make it start my game?

[@r50142]

You edit the function and make it so it starts the game.

[@d1ssolv3r]

thanks for the tut. seems you changed a few things in the process & never defined button_height (not sure how yours worked?) but it is working after some messing around. thx

[@agmailuser5415]

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[@technov1king]

Why not use absolute positioning? this is a little complicated, at least it seems like that

[@fabriceatlan7992]

Excellent ! Good job ! But I have a question. Is it the best area to write in the draw ?

[@gachastorys5129]

If your talking about drawing text or anything graphically then you can only do it in love.draw() if you decide too do it on the load or update method than it straight up just won’t work

[@Isaacthemaniac]

It is not working for me it says syntax error ambiguous syntax, function call x new statement. The window height is broken.

[@EndlessMike]

Been waiting for this how did I miss it.

[@jiyokun]

I really find this useful but is there also a keyboard input version of this code instead of mouse input?

[@jimmyporter8941]

Thanks for the video, but the music makes it really hard to watch through.

[@MARVELVSEDITZ213]

not working brother showing black sceen

[@syarifhidayatullah298]

Really Work Thank you

[@Pandemius]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you! Are you using Linux?

[@christopherwillson]

Nice music choice

[@neithancrack7649]

Do u know how to make a touch screen controlss?

[@tolistoza9382]

First. I need menü system. Tnx for upload!

[@r50142]

It doesnt do the hover effect. my code: b.last = b.now local bx = (game.Width * 0.5) - (button_width * 0.5) local by = (game.Height * 0.5) - (button_height * 0.5) + cursor_y local ButtonColor = {0.5, 0.5, 0.5} local mx, my = love.mouse.getPosition() local Hovered = mx > bx and mx < bx + button_width and my > by and mx < by + button_height if Hovered then ButtonColor = {1, 1, 1, 1} end b.now = love.mouse.isDown(1) if b.now and not b.last and Hovered then b.fn() end

[@thefusionfire2235]

Help! What editor are you using in this video? Thanks!

[@ttttt_]

He's using vim or neovim.

[@thefusionfire2235]

@@ttttt_ thanks

[@legna7262]

Hi, Newbie in Lua. Run your code and it gives this Error in line 6: bad argument #1 to 'getWidth' (string expected, got function). Did I do something wrong?

[@legna7262]

Gosh, sorry. It was my mistake. I forgot to write the string msg where we insert data into the table at load. :-) Thank you for your great tutorial. Good job, man.

[@brandonphilander661]

Hi man great video once again, any update on your Love2D roguelike/RPG?

[@SkyVaultGames]

Yes, I am working hard on it. Its a tricky one because of how many systems there are, so it's taking a bit of time.

[@brandonphilander661]

SkyVaultGames Keep up the good work, looking forward to it.

[@sombrerorosso6889]

I followed your tutorial, and everything works fine (great video!). I'm trying to put a background image, but without success (i have always a black background). Could you tell me where to put it? Thanks

[@cjn9ne]

Looking for the solution to this problem. Did you ever figure it out?

[@stanosipenko7305]

I have a concern, I would often define window width and height in the love.load function, any reason for putting it in love.draw instead?

[@Lopoi]

On love.load it will not update if you change the size of the window. On love.draw it updates the value everyframe. I think thats the reason.

[@aukondk]

@@Lopoi That's true. There is also a callback function for when the window is resized (love.resize) that could be used so it isn't constantly being updated.

[@InternetSandman]

Is there a way to see your print outputs like that in VSCode? I know there's an output window that can monitor Love2D but I haven't been able to get any print statements into it for debugging or monitoring

[@hussein0762]

Thanks thats really helpful. just a question, if we want to let a game be started when start game butten is clicked do we just have to write the code of game in place of print("Starting Game"), since when I try it the code runned normally but function love. draw() didnt run the screen kept black, can anyone tell me the problem?

[@fahadjahandad1653]

what editor are you using?

[@germanantivero8939]

that's vim www.vim.org/ but it seems like he has themes and pluggins I don't know what pluggins does he use but it's something

[@Tpkanimations]

source code?

[@kiljupullo]

Could you remove music?

[@stian8889]

What text editor you use?

[@ahmadayazamin3313]

it's vim (or could be neovim, I use neovim).

[@Milk-yi9hg]

What code is this?

[@SkyVaultGames]

This is Lua

[@leonardolopes2139]

thanks for the video! pretty helpful

[@Browncoyote]

Good tutorial. Slow down a little bit. Just feedback, I had to pause a lot and you made some mistakes.

[@poisonicecream4916]

"SIMPLE" :)

[@Sunshine-fv1xj]

Aí é foda

[@msddvisage]

After looking into this video, i see this guy is using some edit of vim, lol.

[@LexeresBrest]

Flashing all the buttons if choose the first button and flashing okey if last, mistake in the code in video

[@crochetestilo4991]

Por que no usar unity?

[@Starpelly]

You're going WAY too fast. Also the music is really distracting.

[@josuecabralmatos2267]

YOUR CODE NEVER WORKS

[@SkyVaultGames]

Its literally working in the video

[@josuecabralmatos2267]

My text editor is literally fine but this video never works

[@loafbunmerp8050]

@@josuecabralmatos2267 Have you tried doing it correctly

[@josuecabralmatos2267]

m sorry I was on visual studio code and I think I forgot to download the pack

[@tHe_bAgeL]

@@josuecabralmatos2267 which pack is it