Thread: Vectors of classes

Originally Posted by Dondrei

Oh, looks like you all figured it out right after I posted :P

I'm planning to have different kinds of monsters, but Monster will be the base class, I think all the basic features of the monster will be defined at this level (certainly things like position and velocity and so on), if I have classes underneath Monster they'll probably just divide up monsters that shoot from monsters that don't or something. So I think this way makes sense... what do you think?

Or is the pointer method more efficient?

If you have classes that inherit from a base-class, you should definitely use pointers, as you will otherwise suffer from "slicing". You will also need to make all functions of the monster into virtual classes.

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Mats

Originally Posted by matsp

You will also need to make all functions of the monster into virtual classes.

I think you mean virtual functions.
Perhaps even make the pure virtual.

Originally Posted by Elysia

I think you mean virtual functions.
Perhaps even make the pure virtual.

Yes - fingers typing without brain involved ... [Another reason I don't give help in PM's is that when I type something wrong, the helpee is not getting it corrected by someone who knows roughly what I mean].

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Mats