GameTools Object

This library manages game objects - people, cars, buildings, penguins...everything.

class BasicObject

A BasicObject is a single 3D model with an identifier and some bounding box data. All BasicObjects are are maintained in a searchable global list.

 class BasicObject
 {
 } ;

Utility Functions

Two functions:

 BasicObject *findObject ( unsigned int handle ) ;
 BasicObject *findObject ( const char *name ) ;

...allow you to efficiently search for objects using either their string name - or a numerical handle.

Object states

There are three state variables that are extremely useful to Java plugins that control objects in the game:

• floating - the object is bobbing around between air and water, perhaps swimming, perhaps just floating naturally.
• submerged - in water, either on the surface, in the body of water or standing on the bottom of the water.
• freeFall - free-falling in air or water, not in contact with the ground or the water surface.

A combination of these three flags tells you a lot:

State	floating	submerged	freeFall
On the ground	No	No	No
Falling through the air	No	No	Yes
On the bottom of the ocean	No	Yes	No
Sinking or rising through water	No	Yes	Yes
Impossible?!?	Yes	No	No
Impossible?!?	Yes	No	Yes
Swimming on surface of water	Yes	Yes	No
Impossible?!?	Yes	Yes	Yes

Wikiid Pages relating to gameTools ()

gameTools - Main page

gameTools - Support Tools : plb_to_ac3d, mklevel, mktile, mktree, tiled, autogen_java, mk3dgallery

gameTools - File Formats : title_screen.rgb, ultimate.xml, material.xml, decoration.xml, physics.xml tiled.xml, tiled_autotiles.xml, Level files, Tile naming scheme, PLB files

gameTools - Source Code : Game functions: gameCamera, gameClock, gameChecksum/gameHashTable, gameHTTP, gameIsect, gameJoystick, gameParticleManager, gameScreen/gameMouse, gameSky, gameStarter, gameStrokeFont, gameUtils Material database: MatList/MatEntry Tile map handling: TileObject/MapFlag/MapEntry/Map Java Interfacing: JavaLink Image file loading: liImage/liImageFactory 3D Model file loading: loadPLB, PLB exporter Physics: Sabot, Bullet, gameTools - Use with Blender, PLB exporter Object management: Object