Re: [Super-tux-devel] Game objects

[Ryan F. <rf...@gm...>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:23:00 +0200, Ingo Ruhnke <gr...@gm...> wrote:

> Biggest problem with merging them is that the drawing order will break
> completly, one can now try to fix it back up by sorting the list of
> GameObjects, but I have found that quite throublesome in the long run
> (ie. it doesn't work with objects that have to be both in the
> foreground and background like the iglo, so if you have to break it
> apart to mulitple objects and such). Clean solution would be to either
> switch to OpenGL only and use the z-buffer for the sorting of the
> drawing or to create a 'GraphicContext' class that records all drawing
> operations and sorts them before evaluting them, instead of having
> Surface class directly call SDL_Blit().

Yeah, I was thinking each class could be given a z-order, but this
z-buffer thing sounds better. I don't know much about OpenGL though.

-- 
Ryan