After following the forum for a few weeks I finally decided to signup - of course, this was also influenced by the fact I would like to have your help.
As more people here, I am trying to create a game. I find it important to create a good structure idea before starting programming, but I do not have much experience in this. Here is my current idea:
Some useful information:
-The program will be written in C++ and Lua.
- It will have 3D graphics with a 2D graphical user interface.
- Multiple clients will be connected with one server, which validates all actions send in by clients.
Image explanation:
The program starts by creating a base, which is not included in this image. This base creates all important instances, such as a screen handler, texture loader, user input, and more. The screen handler lets the player move through different screens, which are loaded from an external file, via Lua. Example screens are a connect screen and the game itself.
When a screen handler is created, it will tell the UI what the right GUI is and which hotkeys can be used. The UI is linked to 3D graphics, because via the UI the user is able to change, which 3D effects are enabled. If needed, the screen handler will create a world handler. The world handler handles all objects in the game itself, the world objects. world objects are linked to the player, because the player is actually derived from a world object. The player is linked to the UI because it will tell it which controls it uses.
As said, I do not have much experience in this. I hope it is any good, and love to get some feedback.
Thanks in advance,
Aart Stuurman
--Edit: I forgot an arrow in the image.
--Edit 2: Now it was an arrow too much.
