Alternatives to Love2D for a Lua 2D Graphics Lib

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Alternatives to Love2D for a Lua 2D Graphics Lib

I'm looking for alternatives to the Love2D graphics/game library which ideally would support the following:

Easy primitive rendering (e.g. points, lines, 2d polygons)
Ability to load and draw images
basic text rendering (though something more full-featured would be nice)

Do any others exist?

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Try Cairo and LuaCairo.

lhf 2010-02-09 10:46:02

This is great for image making, but if i wanted something that drew to a window what would i use? Or would cairo do that too?

RCIX 2010-02-09 11:22:04

Cairo's web page says it support X11 and Win32 among several others.

lhf 2010-02-09 11:46:49

That just appears to mean that it works on windows...

RCIX 2010-02-10 07:26:27

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Try also Canvas Draw.

lhf 2010-02-10 10:08:23

I'll take a look at that too, it seems to come with a standard Lua install.

RCIX 2010-02-11 00:25:37

CD works quite well used in combination with IUP to provide the UI framework needed to be a well-behaved Windows GUI application.

RBerteig 2010-02-13 01:32:25

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There is also the wxWidgets framework, which has a Lua binding named wxLua. It is included in the Lua for Windows batteries-included distribution, and should be as platform-portable as either Lua or wxWidgets itself.

RBerteig 2010-02-13 01:37:53

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