From the Forum – Issue #157

02 June 2017

From the Forum – Issue #157

Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.

I’ll never use algebra again!

How many times did you hear that after graduating from school? If you want to build games, though, algebra and geometry will need to be part of your skillset. In this thread, several developers help with one of the most common “game maths” which developers need: the Pythagorean theorem.

Objects, objects, objects

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is undoubtedly popular. Everyone wants to use Lua in the most OOP ways possible and this thread helps explain Lua and OOP better than most. Check it out!

And the rains came down

Rain is a cool effect and there are several ways to accomplish it. In this thread, learn how to use particle emitters and other techniques to add a rain effect to your project.

Do you have a particular forum thread that was helpful for you? Let us know about it! Email [email protected], put FTF: and the forum title in the subject, and include the URL in the email. We will consider adding it to an upcoming edition of From the Forum.