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Hi,
I am not sure if this is the most fitting title for what I have going on, but couldn't think of any better.
I am working on a 2d scrolling shooter, and the way I have designed my entities/game objects, many times I encounter situations where I wish I could just use some variables/objects without having to know about it if it is a pointer or value. Now, I know this sounds really weird, but let me give an example:
I have a game object, destroyable.
It has a lists of colliders: shields, hull, weakPoints
if a shield is hit the damage is calculated based on the shield's own material properties, and the damage is exerted on the shield itself, not on the main destroyable object.
if a hull collider is hit the damage is calculated based on the destroyable's material properties (so for material they don't have their own, they need a pointer to the destroyable's material) and the calculated damage will be exerted on the destroyable (so they need a pointer for the destroyable's integrity, they don't have their own)
if a weakPoint is hit the damage is calculated based on the weakPoint's own material properties, but the damage exerted will be on the main destroyable, so they need a pointer for the destroyable's integrity.
As you can see the process of collision handling and taking damage is exactly the same in all three cases,but since in some cases a pointer to an object (material or integrity) needs to be used, and other times the actual value, each case needs to be treated separately and for all the combinations a separate function needs to be written.
Is some way I could make this such that when I give an integrity object or material object to a collider it can be treated either as his own, OR as a pointer to his parent's material or integrity?
For example I would just like to make the takeDamage function, in general as:
integrity -= collider.material.takedamage(&damagesource); without knowing that the integrity and the material is the collider's own, or it is a pointer to his parent's property
I would appreciate any assistance on this.
Thank you in advance!
I am not sure if this is the most fitting title for what I have going on, but couldn't think of any better.
I am working on a 2d scrolling shooter, and the way I have designed my entities/game objects, many times I encounter situations where I wish I could just use some variables/objects without having to know about it if it is a pointer or value. Now, I know this sounds really weird, but let me give an example:
I have a game object, destroyable.
It has a lists of colliders: shields, hull, weakPoints
if a shield is hit the damage is calculated based on the shield's own material properties, and the damage is exerted on the shield itself, not on the main destroyable object.
if a hull collider is hit the damage is calculated based on the destroyable's material properties (so for material they don't have their own, they need a pointer to the destroyable's material) and the calculated damage will be exerted on the destroyable (so they need a pointer for the destroyable's integrity, they don't have their own)
if a weakPoint is hit the damage is calculated based on the weakPoint's own material properties, but the damage exerted will be on the main destroyable, so they need a pointer for the destroyable's integrity.
As you can see the process of collision handling and taking damage is exactly the same in all three cases,but since in some cases a pointer to an object (material or integrity) needs to be used, and other times the actual value, each case needs to be treated separately and for all the combinations a separate function needs to be written.
Is some way I could make this such that when I give an integrity object or material object to a collider it can be treated either as his own, OR as a pointer to his parent's material or integrity?
For example I would just like to make the takeDamage function, in general as:
integrity -= collider.material.takedamage(&damagesource); without knowing that the integrity and the material is the collider's own, or it is a pointer to his parent's property
I would appreciate any assistance on this.
Thank you in advance!
