Can you put multiple types of classes in the same array?

Stone Mask · 2013-04-23T18:24:20

Okay, so I have this ENEMY class right? I guess for simplicity, the subclasses are RED, BLU, GRN. My game wants it to be that there is a certain chance that some of these varities spawn more than others, and I store all the enemies in a vector array. The problem here is that if I make a vector array of ENEMY pointers, I can't access the member functions that are exclusive to the RED, BLU, and GRN subclasses. I can only access the base class' member functions, and even if I've overloaded RED/BLU/GRN's functions to behave differently, they default to the base class' methods. If this is easily explainable, or if there's a solution to this problem, please let me know; otherwise, I'll post my code and we'll see what we can do.

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Started by StoneMask April 21, 2013 08:31 AM

19 comments, last by Zukias 10 years, 11 months ago

Zukias

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April 23, 2013 06:24 PM

On and off a couple years; my C++ book that I'd been studying out of was actually lost around the time I got to the polymorphism chapter, so yeah, I'm a bit lacking in this area.

You make a good point about setting the seed at the creation though.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/polymorphism/

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