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Game Loop?

Started by Pexi Mar 16, 2003 at 8:41 AM 2 replies 750+ views

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Mar 16, 2003 at 8:41 AM

Could someone give me an example of games main loop... where the logig is updated and thing drawn. How do join it with state based game logic.

GameMain()
{
  switch (GameState)
  GS_MENU: MenuLoop;
  GS_MAIN: GameLoop;
  GS_IDLE: IdleLoop;
}

MenuLoop()
{
  UpdateMenu;
  DrawMenu;
}

GameLoop()
{
  UpdateGameLogic();
  DrawStuff();
}

IdleLoop()
{
  PlayDemo();
}

this is how currently have thought doing it. How you do it? Pekka H http://koti.mbnet.fi/pekkath/

Kylotan

Mar 16, 2003 at 12:24 PM

thehurricane

Mar 16, 2003 at 1:02 PM

You can also create an abstract GameState base class and then derive states like PlayState and EditState from it and override the Draw and Process functions, so in effect each frame involves a virtual function call.

FearedPixel

Mar 16, 2003 at 6:13 PM

Looks fine, just make sure that the MenuLoop, GameLoop etc have their own while loop inside, rather than a while loop in GameMain. Although im sure that is how you done it.

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