Hi!

New user here, still trying to find my feet. I have a starter project where I'm trying to draw a Crokinole table, which is a circular board with a circle of pins halfway from the centre to the outer edge.

I have a function that I'm calling from _Init() to set up the pins at the start of the game:

function init_pins(a)
 --Pins are in a circle, so we init the pins with a number to say how many there are
 --then figure out based on how many what the angle is between them if they're spaced
 --equally
 angle_between_pins=1/a

 --Now, for each pin, we call the add pin functionality
 for i=1,a do
  add(pin,{
   --We want the angle from 12 o'clock to this pin specifically
   pin_angle=angle_between_pins*i,
   print(pin_angle,16*i,8,3),
   x=sin(pin_angle)*boardradius/2,
   y=cos(pin_angle)*boardradius/2,
   draw=function(self)
    circfill(self.x,self.y,8,6)
   end,
  })
 end
end

I am confused as hell, because while trying to debug this, that print(pin_angle) just returns a load of null values. But if I replace print(pin_angle) with print(angle_between_pins*i) (the exact thing I just just pin_angle to) then I get the values I'm expecting. Something about putting those angles into a variable within the table entry is setting it to null.

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