Derived Entities -

The entities of the game are those objects that populate it, wherever visible or invisible. Depending on each object's characteristics, it has compositive parts of other objects (specifically, msg, physics, AI and gfx, among others).

To create a New Object you would need to use the ObjectFactory and quite posibly the resource manager to load the necesary data for the object. The entity would then be mapped, using its id, on the particular resource map the object factory has. The same provides methods for inserting, deleting and finding objects.

1 Contact:

Created by ying. Note: In progress, as the game entities are not yet known.

2 Goals:

Create the base clases of Bot, Item, Scenario and Effect, to use them directlly or by inheritance troughout the engine. These objects must be able to load their data in several ways, and have the necesary acessors and usefull functions.

3 Implementation:

Both Bot and Item clases have constructors, (default, from data file, and from already loaded XML data) acessors to all hteir member variables, and miscelaneus functions. To create an object you make use of the Object Factory, wich also takes care of deleting them and freeing memory. A DisPlay Stats function is avialable for debugging and testing purposes.

4 Impact:

Changes on the Entities usually have effects on the Object Factory and The Resource Manager (specially if the changes concer the constructor)