Array of classes with scenenodes in them

[eejin]

Hi, I've been trying to implement a basic creature in my game and I decided I should use classes for them because I want to alter their location and such seperatly.
Now I though of creating an array that has pointers to all the objects. This works fine but now I want to be able to say I want to have a new object of the class and set the model.

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class Zombie {
    char mesh;
    public:
    void set_mesh (char);
};
 
void Zombie::set_mesh (char mesh) {
  mesh = mesh;
}

Now how would I create a new scenenode everytime a new object of the class Zombie is created?
I got an array that has pointers to meshes I load so I don't have to load a mesh everytime I create a new Zombie.

[CuteAlien]

Irrlicht caches meshes - which means ISceneManager::getMesh doesn't load again if it already has such a mesh. Now for creating different nodes for those meshes use ISceneManager::addMeshSceneNode or ISceneManager::addAnimatedMeshSceneNode. Then you can put the resulting ISceneNodePointer (or one of it's derived classes) into your Zombie class and control the node by that.

[eejin]

But I can't call addAnimatedMeshSceneNode in the class because the scenemanager is not yet initialized. How would I create a node which is connected to the class object?

[CuteAlien]

Pass the scenemanager as parameter. Although it often is better to have a second class doing the creation - so you would have for example a class that has a function like createZombie. A good name for such a class might be Zombiefactory (if all it can do is creating zombies).

[randomMesh]

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zombieFactory->createZombie(EEF_EVIL);
 

This is why i love oop.

[hendu]

That reminded me of the old Java joke.. Use java and all you have is a ProblemFactory.