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SFML Game Development

You're reading from   SFML Game Development If you've got a firm grasp of C++ with a secret hankering to create a great game, this book is for you. Every practical aspect of programming an interactive game world is here – the only real limit is your imagination.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849696845
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Artur Moreira Artur Moreira
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Jan Haller Jan Haller
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Henrik Valter Vogelius Henrik Valter Vogelius
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

SFML Game Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Making a Game Tick 2. Keeping Track of Your Textures – Resource Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Forge of the Gods – Shaping Our World 4. Command and Control – Input Handling 5. Diverting the Game Flow – State Stack 6. Waiting and Maintenance Area – Menus 7. Warfare Unleashed – Implementing Gameplay 8. Every Pixel Counts – Adding Visual Effects 9. Cranking Up the Bass – Music and Sound Effects 10. Company Atop the Clouds – Co-op Multiplayer Index

Composing our world


Up to now, we have taken a look at entities and the scene graph, we know how to render and update objects in the world, and we have seen how views and scrolling work. We have a concrete knowledge about many building blocks, now it is time to assemble them to shape a model of our fictional world.

Completely unforeseen, we create a new class called World. On one side, our World class must contain all the data related to rendering:

  • A reference to the render window

  • The world's current view

  • A texture holder with all the textures needed inside the world

  • The scene graph

  • Some pointers to access the scene graph's layer nodes

On the other hand, we store some logical data:

  • The bounding rectangle of the world, storing its dimensions

  • The position where the player's plane appears in the beginning

  • The speed with which the world is scrolled

  • A pointer to the player's aircraft

Concerning functionality, we implement public functions to update and draw the world. We also add two private functions to...

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