Hi Friends. I''m about to embark a new project. the project is a game of the style of "volfied". i started designing and i have a dilemma. the way i see it i have a class called Game. in this class i have two vectors : 1. vector of sprites. 2. vector of lines. the sprites in the vector have a method DoAI(). this method needs to know the other sprites on the vector ( for collision purpose. ) it also needs to know the line vector ( so the sprite will know to where it can move). class Game{ private: vector mSprites; vector mLines; public: int Run(){ for(i=0;i<10;i++) mSprites.DoAI(mSprites,mLines); } } class Sprite{ public: DoAI(????) } this looks ugly to me(The parameters sent to DoAI func). is it my poor design experience ? is there a better way ? How about making mSprites and mLines Global ?

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Original post by kroiz

this looks ugly to me(The parameters sent to DoAI func).
is it my poor design experience ?
is there a better way ?
How about making mSprites and mLines Global ?

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I wouldn''t make them global, what about passing a reference on mLines and mSprites to the sprite classes constructor?

A sprite has AI?

If this were my project, I would try separating out the game components from the graphics components.

Obviously you need a link from one to the other to give your game data visual representation. But imagine you were running on a computer without a screen. Could you still perform the RPG/sim/game/data calculations with no graphics? Sure... If done right, you could swap in/out visual 2d overhead tiles with 3d first-person graphics with a text interface (like the old Zork games).

Separate the game from the graphics, then find a simple way to present input to the game, and link game results to graphic display.

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Original post by Anonymous Poster

Separate the game from the graphics, then find a simple way to present input to the game, and link game results to graphic display.

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Sound cool but too progressive for me, for now i wanna keep
it simple i think i''ll use the reference like harry said.
thanx to you both.