Smoovement.lua

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smoovement is an API that introduces sprite objects and ways to transform them as well as parent-children relationships.

Installation

Just download this and extract it. Then, copy the file into your level's graphics folder. Rinkas;Tale, an example level, is included, too.

Setup

To enable the smoovement library for a specific level, add this line to lunadll.lua:

local smoovement = API.load ("smoovement");

This will load the smoovement API.

Documentation

Values

These are variables you can access.

world	sprite	The sprite object used for referencing everything. Any transformations applied to this sprite will get applied to every sprite.

Sprite

Values

Sprite.img	The LuaImageResource that the sprite is currently displaying
Sprite.x	The x translation relative to its parent
Sprite.y	The y translation relative to its parent
Sprite.rotation	The current rotation of the sprite relative to its parent in degrees
Sprite.pivotX	The x coordinate of the pivot point, the point that's used as the center for scaling and rotation, where 0 represents the leftmost side of the sprite and 1 the rightmost
Sprite.pivotY	The y coordinate of the pivot point, the point that's used as the center for scaling and rotation, where 0 represents the top of the sprite and 1 the bottom
Sprite.scaleX	The value by which the sprite is scaled horizontally
Sprite.scaleX	The value by which the sprite is scaled vartically
Sprite.visible	boolean containing whether the sprite is visible
Sprite.hasParent	boolean containing whether the sprite has a parent
Sprite.parent	Parent sprite
Sprite.children	table of children
Sprite.hasAnimation	boolean containing whether the sprite is animated
Sprite.dTime	Number of frames between animations
Sprite.counter	A counter that increases from 0 to Sprite.dTime - 1 and is used to keep track of animation
Sprite.frame	The index of the frame that the sprite is currently on
Sprite.frames	table of LuaImageResource, with each one representing one frame of animation
Sprite.priority	Priority with which the sprite is drawn. See LunaLua Render Priority
Sprite.transform	The transform of the sprite; only used for rendering
Sprite.deleted	boolean containing whether the sprite, as well as its children, are to be deleted on the next frame