Animate corona SDK enemies

Question

I'm try to create a new game on corona SDK i'm new in lua language, my goal is had a set of enemies in a kind of action game.

For this i think the best way is have a array to store all my enemeis in this case i use three.

So my code is :

local enemies = {}

enemy1 = display.newImageRect( "assets/images/sheep_mini.png", 60, 60 )
enemy1.anchorX = 0
enemy1.anchorY = 0
enemy1.name = 'enemy'
enemy1.id = 1
enemy1.x, enemy1.y = 28, display.contentHeight - 260
enemy1.angularVelocity = 0
enemies[1] =enemy1 



 enemy2 = display.newImageRect( "assets/images/sheep_mini.png", 60, 60 )
enemy2.anchorX = 0
enemy2.anchorY = 0
enemy1.id = 2
enemy2.name = "enemy"
enemy2.x, enemy2.y = screenW - 120, display.contentHeight - 420
enemy2.angularVelocity = 0
enemies[2] =enemy2

So after that i've a while to iterate to this enemies enemies, but when i try to get the enemies from the array i only getting this :

Mar 31 02:23:36.576: table: 0x600000a66640 Mar 31 02:23:36.577: table: 0x600000a78e00

i'm using this code for doing while :

  local len = #enemies
local i= 1
while i <= len do
    enemy1 = enemies[i]
    print(enemy1)
end

Can you help here? i'm now on corona and also on lua

thanks in advance

You are trying to print the table value, so what you want to do exactly ? — Kumar KS
yes i'm increment the i only not copy this code, as i said i'm new in LUA so i try to get the object on each position, like i do on JavaScript. the problem is only the print? if I try accessing for example on id property i'm able to do this? — mastervv

Nicklas Kevin Frank Nicklas Kevin Frank · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-31T14:04:34

What you are trying to achieve can be done through

table.print(enemy1)

For more information I suggest you read this: Table Serialization which explains how:

functions to serialize/unserialize a table or object (usually, not always, represented as a table), which is to convert it to and from a string representation. This is typically used for display (e.g. debugging) or storing data in a file (e.g. persistence).

Animate corona SDK enemies

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