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Auto-move feature in Warcraft II/Starcraft

Yanroy · 2000-11-08T20:46:56

You know that neat feature in Warcraft II and Starcraft where the units do things automatically when you click the right mouse button? How would you implement something like that? How does the game tell whether the right click means chop wood, board a transport or repair a building? I want to encapsulate this in the unit that is being used at the time of the mouse click, which complecates things. All the units in my game are derived from various subtypes of CUnit, so they have no working knowledge of the other unit types, and I handle all the units polymorphiclly (RunAI() overridden from CUnit, Draw() overridden from CUnit, Move() overridden from CMobileUnit...). I think I just went off on a tangent with my own question Please help, if you can figure out what I mean (the longer I type, the less I know what I mean!). -------------------- You are not a real programmer until you end all your sentences with semicolons; (c) 2000 ROAD Programming You are unique. Just like everybody else. Yanroy@usa.com Visit the ROAD Programming Website for more programming help.

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Started by Yanroy November 07, 2000 11:24 AM

9 comments, last by Yanroy 24 years, 2 months ago

Shannon Barber

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November 08, 2000 08:46 PM

If the switch will work I''d use it

I think the OOD idea here is called the ''Command Pattern''
If you really want an OOP approach read up on Design Patterns (I am

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