Persistent objects

Adam Brown · 2009-01-25T16:57:59

Now that I am more comfortable with AS I'm taking a look at the design I implemented. And maybe someone can suggest a better way forward here. I have this class "Turret" which I instance many times in the course of a game. But what each instance looks like and does is defined by XML and AS. So the main thing that you can define in AS is what happens when the turret fires. So when the turret does indeed fire, it calls out to a: Quote: void fire( Turret@ t, Creep@ c, World@ w ); AS function which takes arguments to help it be somewhat statefull. But my issue is, I want the scripters to have much more flexibility. Right now they can only store and manipulate the basic information that all turrets have actually stored in the C++ class: - rate of fire - range ect... It would be ideal if the scripters could define script variables when the objects are constructed, and each instance would have it's own set of these (obviously). Is there anyway to do this strictly in the script engine? To remain state full per object instance? The other issue I have is, There are functions that can be run on both the client and server (common functions), and then there are functions that can only be run on the Client (graphics related things). Right now thats not an issue. There are 2 separate functions in 2 separate modules to handle this, and they have their config groups set accordingly. But this gets thrown into the mix i suppose when trying to define some way for scripts to create variables about the objects which can be access from both sides (not across a network mind you, but simply on a client which uses both the common functions as well as the client only functions.

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Started by Wavesonics January 21, 2009 06:52 PM

19 comments, last by WitchLord 15 years, 10 months ago

WitchLord

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January 25, 2009 04:57 PM

Yes, you're absolutely right.

The example was written quickly from my memory, so I'm quite sure it has more mistakes like these.

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