LÖVE - Learn Lua for iOS Game Development - page 248

There are several types of graphics objects that make up LÖVE:
 Canvas : This is the offscreen render target.
 Drawable : This comprises all the items that can be drawn.
 Font : The characters that can be drawn on the screen.
 Framebuffer : This is the offscreen render target.
 Image : This is the image that can be drawn.
 ParticleSystem : This is the particle system, which you can use to create
cool effects.
 PixelEffect : This is the pixel shader.
 Quad : This is a quadrilateral with texture information.
 SpriteBatch : This stores the geometry in a buffer for drawing later.
Images
We can load an image using the newImage function; however, to display them on the screen, the code
that does the drawing must be in the love.draw callback function. The code below will display the
output as seen in Figure 11-3 below.
local theImage, x, y
function love.load()
theImage = love.graphics.newImage("myImage.png")
x = 50
y = 50
end
function love.draw()
love.graphics.draw(theImage, x, y)
end