Creating and Tracking Enemies
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I want to have a base class called cEnemy lets say and a bunch of child classes for different types of enemies. Now I want to make a vector to keep track of all enemies such as for collision testing. Can I make a universal vector of cEnemy or something, I dont want to have to create a seperater vector for each type of enemy. Hope this makes sense. Also if theres a more standard way of doing this Im open to suggestions, thanks.
Jawbreaker
Aye, theoretically you should be able to create a vector for the base class and store any cEnemies you want in there... (am I right on this? I think so) Since any descendants of cEnemy are also a cEnemy itself.
EDIT: Aye, that's a good idea, the pointer idea =)
[edited by - Vthornheart on March 20, 2004 4:11:18 PM]
EDIT: Aye, that's a good idea, the pointer idea =)
[edited by - Vthornheart on March 20, 2004 4:11:18 PM]
quote:Original post by VThornheart
Aye, theoretically you should be able to create a vector for the base class and store any cEnemies you want in there... (am I right on this? I think so) Since any descendants of cEnemy are also a cEnemy itself.
Bad, bad idea. Creating a container that stores a base object by value will lead to slicing.
So basically what you want to do is something like
std::vector< cEnemy* > m_vecEnemies;
You want to store pointers to your base object. Say you have a cRat that inherits from cEnemy. You could add a rat to your list of enemis by doing this:
cRat* pNewRat = new cRat();
// init member variables for your new "rat"
m_vecEnemies.push_back( pNewRat );
Hope this helps,
neneboricua
[edited by - neneboricua19 on March 20, 2004 4:54:23 PM]
std::vector< cEnemy* > m_vecEnemies;
You want to store pointers to your base object. Say you have a cRat that inherits from cEnemy. You could add a rat to your list of enemis by doing this:
cRat* pNewRat = new cRat();
// init member variables for your new "rat"
m_vecEnemies.push_back( pNewRat );
Hope this helps,
neneboricua
[edited by - neneboricua19 on March 20, 2004 4:54:23 PM]
Posts like this would be better off in the Game Programming forum. This has nothing to do with DirectX.
Stay Casual,
Ken
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