Home World Forum: FreeStars

Home » Stars! Clones, Extensions, Modding » FreeStars » Design Delimma

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Design Delima

Mon, 16 June 2003 20:42

boneandrew

Crewman 1st Class

Messages: 35
Registered: June 2003
Location: Detroit

I'm a bit rusty with my coding skills right now, but as I understand it, Java is basically C++ with direct control over pointers removed. And actually, I think dealing with classes/inheritance issues is easier with Java. But yes, any of this stuff is possible with C++.

There are quite a few ways of handling this, actually. Another option would be to define each component as an object that directly adjusts the ship's capabilities. For example, you define the Croby Sharmor as an object that will only fit into shield slots (or shield/elec/mech, whatever), and whenever Stars! accesses the ship, it calls each object and the Croby Sharmor adds the 65 shields and 60 armor per object. (Such objects actually contain executionable code, not just data.) No other condition checking needed. You'd need to define each component, but this will make it VERY easy to design those MT trader parts and other components that have multiple abilities (for example, pen scanners).

Or, if you're really worried about saving memory space, do a condition check on the type of component in each slot and call an appropriate procedure that similarly adds the required armor/shields/whatever. This'll take up less memory space as you're not storing separate exectuionable code in active memory for each component for each ship, but more coding as you'll need to define all the condition checks and stuff. And it'll probably be a little slower.

Anyway, some ideas that I hope help.

[Updated on: Mon, 16 June 2003 20:43]

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Design Delimma By: LEit on Fri, 13 June 2003 15:26
		Re: Design Delima By: gible on Fri, 13 June 2003 20:47
		Re: Design Delima By: boneandrew on Mon, 16 June 2003 20:42
		Re: Design Delima By: LEit on Mon, 16 June 2003 21:35
		Re: Design Delima By: John Marasco on Mon, 16 June 2003 21:58
		Re: Design Delima By: LEit on Mon, 16 June 2003 23:28
		Re: Design Delima By: John Marasco on Tue, 17 June 2003 20:16
		Re: Design Delima By: LEit on Wed, 18 June 2003 13:09
		Re: Design Delima By: John Marasco on Wed, 18 June 2003 19:57
		Re: Design Delimma By: JeffMC on Thu, 26 June 2003 00:59
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Fri, 26 March 2004 07:07
		Re: Design Delimma By: LEit on Fri, 26 March 2004 13:09
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Fri, 26 March 2004 14:21
		Re: Design Delimma By: multilis on Fri, 09 April 2004 13:42
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:00
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ashlyn on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:07
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:10
		Re: Design Dilemma By: Ashlyn on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:19
		Re: Design Delimma By: multilis on Sat, 10 April 2004 11:15
		Re: Design Dilemma By: overworked on Sat, 10 April 2004 12:41
		Re: Design Dilemma By: multilis on Sat, 10 April 2004 13:38
		Re: Design Dilemma By: Kotk on Sun, 11 April 2004 13:15
		Re: Design Delimma By: LEit on Sun, 11 April 2004 14:57
		Re: Design Delimma By: Kotk on Mon, 12 April 2004 06:29
		Re: Design Delimma By: LEit on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:04
		Re: Design Delimma By: multilis on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:32
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:49

Previous Topic:	Just how flexible?
Next Topic:	Planet Transfer

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Thu Jul 04 00:16:38 EDT 2024