How to make player fire rockets?

EDIT: Please ignore my stupid question. I asked because I was struggling with a bug which made this seams more complicated then what it really is. Feel Free to delete the post.


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Im trying to make a simple game, but im having some problems.

Im my game I have a player class which covers move, draw, kill, life and so on. It also has a fireRocket() function, but im not sure how to really make the player able to shoot. Right now im trying fireRocket() create a new object (class Missile) but the whole thing does not really work and is very very messy.

What would be a good design/ solution to this?

Sorry if this is badly formulated/stupid question.

You have the right idea except you may want to allow the rocket class to be created by a class that manages objects. Then you would do something like addRocket() inside of PlayerFire().

In my asteroids game I add lasers to a laser manager class which then handles the object from that point on.

My solution is something along these lines:

Code:

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void Player::Fire()
{
  X3DGetApp()->GetLaserMgr()->Add(new Laser(....));
}

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X3DGetApp() returns the application object which then has public accessor functions that allow access to it's various manager classes.

You could also go with a factory approach in that you have a rocket factory which in turn produces rocket objects. So you would get an instance of the factory and then call create() which would then create the rocket.