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Lightweight tickable netobject

by Toks · in Torque Game Engine · 12/16/2007 (4:12 am) · 1 replies

I need the very most lightweight class that processes ticks, and gets scoped and updated to ALL clients, all the time, but nothing else. I cant really figure out what class should be my class' Parent, what should i inherrit and what functions do I need? I tried some things, but i cant really figure out which class does what i need.

i for example tried something like:
class Foo : public NetObject, public virtual ITickable
{
    typedef NetObject Parent;

    enum States {
        InitialUpdateMask    = BIT(0),
        MyMask                    = BIT(1),
        NextFreeMask	        = BIT(2)
    };


public:
    Foo();
    ~Foo();

    bool onAdd();
    void onRemove();
    static void initPersistFields();
    static void consoleInit();

    virtual void interpolateTick( F32 delta );
    virtual void processTick();
    virtual void advanceTime( F32 timeDelta );

    U32 packUpdate(NetConnection *con, U32 mask, BitStream *stream);
    void unpackUpdate(NetConnection *, BitStream *stream);

    DECLARE_CONOBJECT(Foo);
};
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Torque Owner Kent Butler
#1
12/20/2007 (8:02 am)
It depends on what exactly you are doing. I think that subclassing the netObject like you did is fine.

The sceneObject would be the other class to look at. This appears to be where Torque implements the container system - so I *think* everything above that level is virtually invisible to detection by other objects.

The sun object is a really good example of a minimalistic netObject that obviously already works if you want to prototype off of something. It doesn't implement the iTickable interface - but that's easy to add (as your example shows) and the sun is about as lightweight as it gets.