Trying to put lua scripts into folders. Love2D

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Ok, so i've made a game using love2D and I tried converting it into a .app, because i'm running Mac OSX. But I got the error saying that main.lua needs to be that the top level of the .zip. So I tried putting all of my lua scripts into a folder leaving only the main.lua and the conf.lua in the top level of the .zip. But now love2D cannot find the other files in the folder. I tried putting the name of the directory when using "require." for instance:

    require "dir/player.lua"

but that wouldn't work...

pschulz · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-02 23:46:20Z

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Use

require "dir.player"

The dot . denotes a parent level, the .lua is not needed.

answered Jul 2, 2016 at 23:46

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Siemkowski Over a year ago

This works for require. Is there a way to provide a platform independent directory to other functions? Say I have a .wav file I want to load through love.audio.newSource and it is in sound folder. In Windows the obvious way to go is sound = love.audio.newSource('sound/file.wav'). How to make dir cross-platform?

pschulz Over a year ago

Well, i'm not sure about this, but i'm on linux and i would use the exact same syntax. What exactly is platform dependent in this line? I would say it depends on the handling of paths of love, especially in this case its audio loading routine.

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