hi there,
i just play around with thoughts about render engine structure.
i know there are many out there but i wanne just learn by practice.
i have a complete setup of renderengine, shader manager, texture manager… and so on
and all worx fine with my basic object calss obj_3d.
so i can pass any obj3d instance to the renderer->draw() func and it handels all : shader select, postprozess…
in my game class there is a vector of my obj_3d objects. based on some sorting i just loop through it and draw them.
worx all fine so far !
now, of course there are diffrent objects in my world, that have additional diffrent information / behaviors.
eg. in my space game planets have diffrent resources you can drain from them, while space shipds have diffrent flight behavior.
these propertys dont belong in the obj_3d class .
instead i should inherit the planet class from obj_3d.
like: class planet : obj_3d
but if i set it up like this, i cant have only one vector holding all my objects in the game class as they will all be of diffrent types. planet, ship, astroid, spacestation, …
so how so i solv this ?
i just wanne have 1 vector/array of objects to loop through and pass to render func ?
is there a way ?
thanx
uwi