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[Xenocide-programming] Base data interfaces

[Guyver <gu...@ho...>]

Here's my reworked revision of classes for base scape. It's not lot but 
I ask you to revise this and comment.

As for handling data in game I would suggest to go in approach similar 
to how relative data bases work, storing data in some kind of 
DataManagers similar to resource managers. In example soldiers have 
their own datamanager, which serializes itself in it's own special way, 
and each soldier to have relation where he or she belongs, like base (by 
base ID, while bases are managed by BaseManager which keeps relations 
between base id and actual object), aircraft they are assigned to. 
Another approach is to have bases/aircrafts to hold list of soldiers 
which belong to them, but it's rather not convinient, becouse soldier 
can belong to one base at the time and to one ship. Keeping that data in 
soldier's interface is better.

Send sugestions how you see data storage.

Guyver

[Xenocide-programming] Re: Base data interfaces

[Guyver <gu...@ho...>]

Oh, I forget to mention that i dropped the idea of Buildable ability. 
You can also see there's DOMNode* in serialize method. This is like I 
see serialization. Of course it could be better to have specialized 
serializer that we could feed with data or read from, and it could do 
it's job like writing/reading XML or binary files, in case of bin files 
it could do necessary endian convertion etc.

Guyver

PS. I haven't been developing for a while, but that's becouse end of the 
semester on university is comming and I have bunch of work lately not 
related to programming :(. So be patient when I'm not replaying to 
e-mail for one day or two. I will reply sooner or later, but i will ;-)

Re: [Xenocide-programming] Base data interfaces

[Guyver <gu...@ho...>]

Hehe, I haven't attached code to my post ;-P. Here it goes

Re: [Xenocide-programming] Base data interfaces

[mamutas <mam...@ho...>]

But how it is going to be tied to the data loader class? The class which
would read/write the big XML file with all game related data? Well, not to
read the XML file actually, but to read/write the content of the DOM created
from that XML file.
Or has something changed in the original plan?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guyver" <gu...@ho...>
To: "Xenocide Programming List" <xen...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:20 AM
Subject: [Xenocide-programming] Base data interfaces


> Here's my reworked revision of classes for base scape. It's not lot but
> I ask you to revise this and comment.
>
> As for handling data in game I would suggest to go in approach similar
> to how relative data bases work, storing data in some kind of
> DataManagers similar to resource managers. In example soldiers have
> their own datamanager, which serializes itself in it's own special way,
> and each soldier to have relation where he or she belongs, like base (by
> base ID, while bases are managed by BaseManager which keeps relations
> between base id and actual object), aircraft they are assigned to.
> Another approach is to have bases/aircrafts to hold list of soldiers
> which belong to them, but it's rather not convinient, becouse soldier
> can belong to one base at the time and to one ship. Keeping that data in
> soldier's interface is better.
>
> Send sugestions how you see data storage.
>
> Guyver
>
>
>
>
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